Best Maid of Honor Speech - Funny and Heartwarming - Claire Bostrom 7/3/21

[Music] hello everyone hello hello thank you um i hope everyone is digesting their salads well um i know i am actually tonight um this is actually the first wedding i've ever been to so naturally i consulted my lifelong friend info the internet um in order to give me some criteria so weddingwords.us really pulled through for me so here it goes step one start your speech with a simple yet direct introduction hi i'm claire i'm kelsey's little sister i'm 25 years old and i have ibs thank you step two remember that this isn't about you see that is one of the many things that are hard for me to digest because when you think about it this union is absolutely about me before corey entered my life i did not have access to 24 7 iced coffee which he keeps in the fridge at all times and from which i benefit greatly before corey kelsey had her ups and downs but now she's pretty much constantly happy do you know what that does for my mental health to have an older sister who is constantly happy significantly lowered rates of verbal abuse in the household before corey kelsey was dating scrubs like aiden who spells his name a-o-d-h-a-n corey spells his name like a normal person and as a fellow normal person i can appreciate that step three don't talk about exes oops step four talk about the bride when i first saw kelsey take the stage it was a singing competition and she was performing born to entertain looking like a disney princess in a sequin top hat sequin leotard tights tap shoes the holy grail in my six-year-old eyes when the music began her hips started moving i couldn't believe what i was witnessing in a miserable middle school auditorium full of tired stage moms and kids who couldn't sit still my big sister was having fun all by herself she she had a spark and she could manufacture it all on her own with nobody's permission and i wanted to be just like her as the years went by i'm about to get serious warning as the years went by kelsey's spark grew and my and my admiration for her grew along with it i always followed in kelsey's footsteps dipping my toe in every pond along the way and feeling safe in the knowledge that she tested the water for me first kelsey played basketball so i played basketball kelsey did musicals so i did musicals kelsey did cotillion so oh actually i got out of that one thank god no no more importantly though kelsey forged the way in pushing our parents it's pushing the limits of our parents sanity my parents ran a pretty tight ship uh all girls school for seven years no parties door open when a boy is over et cetera but on the night of kelsey's senior prom my eyes were opened naturally prom after party was out of the question proctor party uh for poor kelsey but she did manage to pull it off by claiming she was stuck in traffic for three full hours eventually my parents smart as they are connected the dots when she came home and spent the rest of the night hanging over the toilet her boyfriend mikey sat downstairs telling us how ugly kelsey looked when she threw up but kelsey i thought you never looked more beautiful that night at the time i didn't quite understand but she was introducing me to a new art form the art of lying to our parents thank you kelsey you walked so i could run [Applause] thank you as i've gotten older i realized kelsey didn't have it always figured out um she didn't always know it was serious again where her footsteps were going to take her but this realization has only made her stronger and braver in my eyes she forges ahead with always knowing where she's gonna land because she's someone you wanna follow because you know she was born with some sort of innate treasure map and you know she's yelped out the best taco spots to hit along the way when kelsey shows you love it it's different yeah she's not afraid to get into excruciating detail about her own insecurities and her own struggles and it makes you feel a little bit less burdened by your own she's like my metaphorical flight attendant warning me that there might be some slight turbulence along the way but it's all good own it it's all part of the journey step five breathe some life into your speech with some inspirational quotes i'm a savage yeah classy bougie ratchet yeah sassy moody nasty hey hey yeah acting stupid what's happening whoa whoa what's happening that's from megan the stallion one of kelsey's favorite another um another great quote i love is from american author bell hooks the word love is often defined as a noun but we would all be better if we use the word love as a verb which leads me into step six talk about the couple as much as i hate to let weddingwords.us down i'm not in the business of following rules so i'd like to take this moment to give corey jacoby some air time uh after months of after months quarantined with cory i've studied this human with the precision of the david attenborough documentary and i can say with full confidence that he embodies the verb of loving when i first met corey i was kind of confused not gonna lie i thought to myself there's literally no way that someone can be this selfless and kind without having an ulterior motive turns out there is no ulterior motive with corey he's just a good person okay still watching you throughout 2020 while the world was ravaged by a pandemic the boston family household faced a virus of its own the love of corey jacoby oh god it's inescapable it's contagious it doesn't discriminate it started small he'd mediate an argument or two he'd fix a light bulb he'd make some breakfast tacos but it grew in ferocity in size quickly corey believes in the innate goodness of people and i'll never stop trying to emulate him thank you kelsey for bringing this wonderful person into our lives and for sharing him with us corey you are the bonus baby our family never knew we needed and most importantly thank you for teaming up almost every night to create unnecessarily elaborate dinners for family for family dinners family meals when two foodies come together in love it's a win-win for everyone and it's hotter than a szechuan pepper i didn't know if i was going to put that in but i just did in many ways corey and kelsey are similar people they're both focused and driven they're both enthusiastic about the finer things in life they're both fiercely loyal to the people they love the most um but they also challenge each other duh they push each other they're both not afraid to call each other out when necessary kelsey you are your most compassionate loving positive and silly self around corey truly corey i didn't know you before kelsey so i i don't know if you've improved hopefully you have i don't know can't speak to that all i know is a room with corey and kelsey in it is a room i want to be in so pretty happy right now step seven end with a callback that is not too cliche kelsey you can manufacture your own spark all on your own but with corey by your side you're a wildfire [Music] congratulations to you both but most importantly congratulations to me thank you guys you

Channel: Sue Bostrom

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Keywords: maid of honor speech

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Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2021