'Where your daughter is marrying a foreigner and English is not the first language of the groom's family. '

The Real McCoy Comments:
One day an old business partner of mine rang me to invite me to his daughter's wedding. Naturally, I was delighted to be invited and I asked my old business partner, the father of the bride-to-be, to tell me about the lucky man that his daughter was marrying. 'You're going to like him', he said, 'he'll a lovely person who smiles a lot.'
'That sounds good', I responded, 'but what else does he do, what will I talk to him about when we meet?'
'Well that's a bit of a problem', my friend replied, 'because he doesn't speak very much English. And furthermore, I understand that his parents don't speak any English at all.'
uhuh! This was a bit of a problem. But here's a little speech that I wrote for my friend which was received with great smiles and loud laughter by everyone. And my secret of success is that before the wedding party began we discretely circulated a carefully translated version of the bride father's speech to all the groom's family and foreign-speaking friends. It's worked great!