Father of the Bride Speech Examples

I made use of your excellent website to prepare parts of my Father of The Bride Speech and now attach a copy of my speech in the hope that it will assist other Fathers of the Bride.

Following is the Father of the Bridge speech, written and spoken by me, on the 27th August 2004, on the occasion of my daughters wedding. It took approximately 8 weeks to compose, write and fine tune. The duration of the speech was 10 minutes (not accounting for applause/laughter). (After writing the final version, I frequently read the speech to myself and also practiced aloud and alone. The only other person who I read the speech to - and that was only once - was my wife). On the big day, when I stood up in front of the 100 plus wedding audience, before making my speech (no micophone wa

I have used your example speeches as reference for my last two weddings and have found them absolutely essential help. For my most recent speech, I was giving my sister away and I hope the attached speech will be of benefit to someone. Please note, my sisters new husbands surname is ‘Burke’ which proved to be a useful anecdote! With the gaps and doing it slowly it lasted just over 5 mins (if that helps anyone)

Here are two speeches I had to give two weeks apart for two daughters with a bad sense of timing.

I found your site useful when faced with putting together my “Farther of the Bride” speech.

I recently gave this speech at my daughter's wedding. It got a few kind laughs and brought tears to a few eyes. They didn't know that i was such a romantic old codger ! If you use it I hope it helps someone's dad, as indeed your website helped me. Kind regards, Proud Father of the bride.

Hello Thanks for your help, the other contributors have assisted me immensley! I'm sending this to you just hours before our daughter's Wedding 14 August 2004 2.00pm Talybont Mid-Wales.

try this one! it went down pretty well

This was a particularly awkward speech as it involved divorces etc, but I think it might have some useful content