HELP!!! Father of the Bride Speech
I have the honour of giving my beautiful daughter away in a few weeks time. It will be a wonderful occasion and I will be very proud. But as its my first time I need ideas for the all important speech.
Ive researched on line but they all seem to be much the same , I want fresh ideas on what to add .
Ive researched on line but they all seem to be much the same , I want fresh ideas on what to add .
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Just speak from the heart
http://www.weddingspeechbuilder.com/fatherofthebride/speeches/weddingspeech.cfm
Then look at all the actual suggestions and don't say or do those things for this is DS and they will only lead to problems.
Then he recalled the first time she brought her boyfriend home ("I thought he looked a bit iffy"), and how the boyfriend made his daughter an even better person over time. How he felt when they got engaged. He admitted to feeling he was losing his daughter, but he eventually realised he was gaining a son.
He ended the speech that he and his wife hoped their daughter and her husband will share their new life together with them as they did with their own parents. He then asked guests to cheer with drinks for the newly married couple.
The speech was about 10-15 minutes long.
Bex_123's right - best to speak from your heart. Doesn't matter if it's just one minute, five minutes or twenty.
Went down like a bit of a lead brick TBH, I think most of the guests were all the grooms family, they didn't really know his sense of humour.
Good luck
That sounds perfect.
Selfish cow! >:(
It went something along these lines:
Today, all sorts of feeling and emotions have been running through me. Pride, happiness and a tinge of sadness as well. And I suppose I was expecting all that. But I really didn't think I'd feel the way I feel at the moment. I actually feel like an important politician. A politician who is in the final stages of negotiating the transfer of the national debt.
It looks a bit lame written down! But as I say, it went down pretty well. I find that with wedding speeches, the people listening are an "easy audience". They really want you to do well and are interested in what you're saying. Especially when it comes to the father of the bride's speech. The best man's speech is the toughest gig!
Good luck with it anyway.
My Dad went for one along the lines of book titles probably because I read so many growing up! it was very sweet and named various books including "Little Women" I'm four foot 10) and ended with him saying about us starting a new chapter in our own "Love Story". He mentioned things about me growing up and meeting my husband who had become part of our family and was like a son to him already etc, all very lovely and very personal to us.
My husband was really nervous about his own speech bless him, again it was really nice, the bit that tickled me was "it's been an emotional day, even the cakes in tiers" ;-)
For the fathers of the bride speech, it doesn't need to be as joke packed as the best mans, but should still have a few funny bits, preferably stories about when your daughter was growing up, as well as some nice bits about how proud you are and welcoming your new son to the family.
Enjoy it!
it starts along the lines of..."My daughter couldn't have chosen a nicer, more considerate, ambitious and wealthy man to marry than Brian. So why she chose instead to marry the idiot sat beside her is beyond me !"
I had to give a Best Man's speech and had no idea what to write. Websites were useless, just worthless generic junk.
Then one night I dreamt I was giving the speech. Woke up and wrote it all down. It was pretty much the speech I gave with a few minor tweaks and additions.
http://www.tickld.com/x/12-things-men-do-differently-to-women-7-is-priceless
There's a couple of amusing lines you may be able to use in your speech OP.
My Uncle used the theme of kind and helpful about his daughter (that was a really nice speech - not many people in the room knew that she was his adopted daughter.)
My best friend's Dad was saying about how proud he was of his daughter and that she and her husband would make a successful team as he had just gained further promotion in his job. He also said that his daughter would make the perfect housewife - judging from all her cooking and the new husband's ever expanding waistline... (cheap shot, but worked well insulting both bride and groom!)
Yes was going to say but you beat me to it (from Not the nine o'clock news).
From memory it actually starts something like:
"There comes a time at any wedding reception, when the man who paid for the damn thing, gets to say a few words of his own".....Brilliant