Jamie & Katie | Barr Village, Scotland Wedding | Highlight Film

Good afternoon everybody and on behalf of my wife Shona and I, I'd like to welcome you all here today to celebrate two wonderful people, Katie and Jamie. I know just how much it means to them both to have so many people they love and care about here together in the same place. Katie you look incredible, you can't describe it and right now I think Jamie probably feels that he's the luckiest man in the world and he is without a doubt because I feel like the proudest father. It goes without saying just how proud we are all of you and the considerable amount you've achieved both at work and your personal life but perhaps your greatest achievement is all the friends you've gathered along the way. You've always been very popular and well loved and that's because you have energy and radiance that genuinely makes our lives brighter and your sense of fun laughter and your caring nature makes you somebody people want to be with. So now you're on the road to starting your own family and I couldn't think of a better man than Jamie to have by your side. I now proclaim you to be husband and wife in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Those whom God has joined together no one must separate. Jamie you may now kiss the bride. Now I first came across Jamie nearly 18 years ago when I joined the Edinburgh Academy in 2005. Now he's a year above me so it was safe to say at the start it was merely acquaintances but of course that was all to change and the catalyst to that was sport. I know it's hard to believe as he looks 42 and a receding hairline faster than you know him but he's only a month older than me so what that meant was is that he was able to drop down into our rugby team being a year below at certain periods of the year and I don't think believe under 13s when we probably played together for the first time that I'd be standing here him as a godfather to my second daughter Savannah and me as his best man here today but that's exciting. But the real story of this friendship is over the last 11 years we've had the pleasure of living together, all the day together, we've gone around the world together, we've played some special rugby together and we've enjoyed the numerous of the all-important alcohol-infused openings together. But since Jamie met Katie I can safely say he's been hook, line and sinker. In all honesty I've never seen him happy but whenever he talks about Katie he talks with an immense pride and passion whilst wearing a giant grin across his face and it has been an absolute pleasure to get some of the both of you together. You guys have achieved so much together in such a short space of time I cannot wait to see where the journey takes you next as I know it will be filled with love, laughter and a whole lot of weird when you do. This really has been the happiest day of my life. I can't believe I get to marry you and spend the rest of my life with you. I think awkwardly actually maybe the fifth or sixth time I met you told you that you were the one. There are so many reasons why I love you. You're kind, you always put others first, you support me when I'm at my lowest and you know rugby gives you so many highs but also so many incredible lows and you always know the right thing to say, you always unconditionally hate whoever you think is to blame. Katie my love you are the funniest, kindest, most beautiful, biggest, brilliant person I've ever met. I promise to snort, laugh at all your jokes, to clean up all your mess and to chop all your vegetables. I love you with absolutely everything that I am and I cannot wait to take on life side by side with you as my partner in it all. I'd like to raise the final and biggest toast of the night to my incredible wife Katie.