Father of the Bride Speech Examples

Yau-ming's speech (Bride's father speech) (Editor's note: The Bride's father passed away in 1995, so her older brother took his place during the Wedding ceremony)

I had the outlines of a speech disorganised in my mind. By good fortune I happened onto your site and after reading your examples and then a few drafts it came together. You are welcome to use my speech as one of your examples in return for the confidence and ideas that your site gave me.

Dear Hitched, I had the great pleasure of giving away my baby sister on 17th February, 2001. Many thanks to all those who posted theirs on your site before me. I am sure that they will recognise their influence. I timed this speeech at eight minutes and was pleased that the final delivery was within one minute of that. I am pleased to say that it went down well, and my mother,who was VERY worried about what I was going to say, pronounced me 'backin her will' afterwards. Best regards John Welsh

I would like to thank you in helping me put together a speech for my daughters wedding and enclose a copy. I hope it is of some assistance to any father of the bride in future, once again thank you very much

Like many others I found the example speeches on this website of enormous help when preparing my speech for my daughter's wedding. I hope that any prospective bride's fathers out there will find my own speech of similar help John Coulter

Dear Hitched, I am really grateful to those who sent copies of their speeches as I didn't really know what to say, I found them very helpful and I copies the parts I liked the best, and I thought you might be interested to see the result. From Roy Wolfenden

Dear Hitched I found your site marvelously helpful in writing a speech recently for my daughter's wedding. I therefore feel duty bound to send you a copy of my own rendition, which borrows shamelessly from those I found on your site. I have another daughter, so will need more material before too long. Hope your excellent site comes to the rescue again. Kind regards (and thanks). Chris Haywood

Dear Hitched I have recently given a Father of the Bride Speech, and as the Best Man was very nervous, I extended my offering a little. The result went down really well, and might help other Fathers of the Bride who seem to get scant advice. Peter Jones

Dear Hitched I used your web site to get tips for our speeches for My Sons wedding. I found it of immense value to me to the extent that I went from dreading the event, to really looking forward to making the Speech. On the day it was very well received and people have commented on what a good speech I made. I felt I must extend my thanks to you and I include a transcript of My Speech which you can share with any interested party. Once again. MANY THANKS. Simon Edgington.