A parent watching the choice
“Watching you choose someone this well is the part we did not know to hope for. Congratulations to you both. Our door, our table and our advice all remain available, in roughly that order of usefulness.”
17 messages written for family specifically, across 4 tones. Every one is ready to copy as it stands, or to adapt.
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“Watching you choose someone this well is the part we did not know to hope for. Congratulations to you both. Our door, our table and our advice all remain available, in roughly that order of usefulness.”
“We have watched this become serious in the way these things do, slowly and then obviously. Congratulations to you both. You are very welcome in this family, and always were.”
“Sixty years ago somebody wrote us a card much like this one, and it turned out to be right. Congratulations to you both. Be kind on the ordinary days; they are most of them.”
“We are not losing anyone today, whatever the speeches claim. We are gaining someone we already liked enormously. Congratulations to you both, and welcome properly.”
“You two have made sense together since the beginning. Today just makes it official. All our love.”
“We have watched you become someone worth marrying, which is a longer job than any wedding and you did it well. Congratulations to you both, and welcome properly to the family.”
“I have known you longer than anyone at this wedding and I have never seen you like this. Whatever they have done, it suits you enormously. Congratulations to you both.”
“Two families that did not know each other last year are about to be one, and everything we have seen so far suggests that is going to work beautifully. Congratulations to you both.”
“We have spent a long time hoping you would find somebody who takes you seriously and makes you laugh in roughly equal measure, and you have. Today is not us handing you over to anybody; it is the family getting larger by one, which is the better way round. Congratulations to you both. We could not be happier.”
“I have known you longer than anybody else in the room today, which means I have seen every version of you, including several that were difficult to be around. This one is the best of them and it is not a coincidence. Welcome to the family to them, and congratulations to you both.”
“With every good wish on your marriage. You have chosen thoughtfully and you have chosen well, and the family you are joining is fortunate to have you. Wishing you both a long and steady life together.”
“Welcome to the family, properly this time. Congratulations to you both.”
“Congratulations to you both. Delighted, entirely unsurprised, and very glad to have been there.”
“Welcome to the family, properly this time. We could not be happier about it.”
“Congratulations, both of you. The family is very pleased and slightly emotional about it.”
“Welcome to this lot. We are not always easy but we are entirely yours now. Congratulations.”
“Congratulations. I have been legally obliged to like you for some years now and am pleased to report I would have chosen to anyway. Enjoy every part of the day.”
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