A toast for the 50th, the retirement, the big birthday
Remixed the wedding speech prompt for the occasions our generation actually attends now. Same rule applies: if the toast works for any other couple's 50th, it isn't done.
Write me a toast for a milestone that took decades to earn — a 50th anniversary, a retirement, an 80th birthday. These are harder than wedding speeches: the audience knows the whole story, including the hard parts, and sentimentality insults their intelligence.
The occasion and