Wedding (Marriage) Anniversary Speech for Friends – 50th Wedding Anniversary Speech for Friends

"You know it’s right when you cannot get over it, you know it’s right when you cannot let it go, You know it’s right when you love your fights more than not talking at all, you know it’s right when you literally stick to your marriage vows with all your heart, you know it’s right when you have spent 50 years together and still into each other like the newlyweds. You, my dearest friend has done all of this with the love of your life. It is an extraordinarily emotional moment for me when I am standing here and wishing you on living half of a century with the love of your life successfully.

It must be a feeling inexpressible for you right now to be here with your better half and celebrating the golden jubilee of your marital life. You have literally seen the time changing, generations passing, turning your black hair into grey and your endless conversations turning into “understand it all in a glance” chemistry. I guess this is what they must have pictured before inventing the term ‘soulmates’. This must have been the sort of imagination behind all the Bollywood songs, behind every romantic novel and all the exemplary stories they narrate.

Today, I see you as a happy couple, proud parents and super proud grandparents. This is the picture of a picture perfect family. But, I have also seen you struggling in the initial days of your marriage. When it was a task to even get to talk to your wife, considering the fact that it was a joint family and nobody was ever alone. When most of your time was consumed by work as you had to earn a home for yourself. When the kids arrived and you both gave your whole to bring them up! From sending the kids to school, to now, taking their kids to school, together you have come a long way.

All the challenges, the highs and the lows, the struggles and the celebrations, you have been each other’s pillars of strength. Pillars, which never gave up, no matter how intense the storm was! You made me believe that matches are indeed made in heaven but the bonds are something you make on your own by simply denying to give up on each other and respecting each other’s efforts and contributions.

I truly don’t understand what I should wish for you today because you both mean world to each other and you always have your world by your side. So, I am not left with much choice but I will wish you to be the same till the end or maybe I should wish that there is no end. You are meant to be together till eternity. So here is a big cheer to the most beautiful couple I know. A shout out to the most fairy-tale like story I have witnessed and my warmest wishes to the agelessly romantic couple who has just completed half of a century together!
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