Hello everyone and welcome. Welcome to the Union of Mark and Jess. I should at this point
mention to those who may not know, I am Steve, Jessica's dad, who sadly I'm unable to be with
you today. However, I hate this bit by the way, I have another daughter, Leila, unmarried at the moment,
who will be reading these few words for me. When I first met Mark, I was immediately struck by a
right, sorry, upright, upright, yeah, forthright, straight-looking young man who had an air about him
of honesty and dependability. My trust was well placed, he has stood by his girl, now they are
married and have thinly to complete their happy little family. One that I hope will prosper.
What can I say that you don't already know about her? To be kind, caring, giving, someone you can
always depend on, by way Mark knows none of this, probably best left that way.
I promise to give you the best of myself and ask of you no more than you can give. I will love and
respect you and always put energy into our relationship, keeping our love alive. I promise
to share with you my time and attention and bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship.
I will support you to help you achieve your dreams and always bring happiness and make them
come true. I promise to love you in good times and in bad and try to, with all I have to give and all I
feel inside and the only way I know how. I will help you raise our children to become loving people
and I promise to be the best wife and mother I can be and commit myself to our relationship
together forever.
Now it's been mentioned at the start, unfortunately Jesse's dad stays unable to be here today,
but I want to take the opportunity to personally thank Steve for a couple of things. Firstly,
for his kind words in the speech that Layla read out and secondly for welcoming me and accepting me
into the family. I'll never forget the night when I went for a pint with the more tenets it turned out
and done the honorable thing as for his daughter's hand in marriage and I swear to God he left me
hanging for about 30 seconds and it felt like about five minutes.
Yes, you're someone who's beautiful inside and out. You're a loving, thoughtful, caring and very
creative person. You're a selfless person, you put everyone else first other than yourself,
which is such a quality to have. You've got this, I'm actually not in a bad place because she never
complains and believe it or not she doesn't so I've got it quite easy but she's also got this
infectious determination to succeed and it's really admirable in everything you do you show the
term and I personally look to you in times of need to draw inspiration and I know a lot of others do
as well sitting in the room here so and that's down to the fact that you've got this positive
attitude and you just see the positive in every aspect of life, everything that it throws at you
or anyone else you've got this positivity babe. So I suppose really just to finish you're a truly
inspirational person, you're a free spirit and I'm so proud to call you my wife, you're my best friend,
my soul mate and I just look forward to seeing the rest of our lives together and growing old.
