Wedding Speeches

Wedding speech of groom Anthony Brown (50)at wedding to Sarah Booth (37).Held at Nutters restaurant Norden near Rochdale on 27/09/2014.Celebrity chef Andrew Nutter providing the sumptuous food. Best man Alastair KeetonMaid of Honor Elaine Walton (Sarah's mum) Ushers Trevor Brown, Harrison Brown (my son), Lewis BrownRing bearer Jake Barrington (7)(Sarah's nephew)

Thanks for the assistance and inspiration in the preparation of my daughters speech. Regards,Tom Smith

Rhyming couplets

Obviously the speech won't work for everyone but the theme can be adapted and it certainly got a lot of laughs. I would advise that you write each paragraph on a separate card to read from. And pause before you say the subjects. Timing is EVERYTHING! An alternative ending could be.... "You put these two halves together and you get - a whole lot of love, and one happy couple" Thanks for reading it!

This speech was given just prior to the toast.

Be prepared to have to adjust your speech as things evidently get covered by the other speeches. A good way to calm the nerves was to arrange a £1 sweepstake betwen all guests on the length of the speeches. people will inevitably heckle saying 'hurry up!' as their guessed time approaches, or as their time passes, they might say 'take as long as you want!'. A good way to invite some 'banter' and to generally calm you down.

Here is my speech from last weekend and it went down far better than I could have ever hoped for.  Everyone seemed to enjoy it and joined in at various parts.  I had the added pressure that mine was the only speech, there was no best man or father of the bride speech.  Also, the bride has a father and a step father, Harry is my step son and myself and the bride already have a daughter, Blake, so I was having to try and include everyone without offending anyone too much.  Hope you can take some bits from it and my one piece of advice now I can look back...don't worry about getting nervous, ever

I was helped by this site and wanted to help other fathers of bride ideas that might work.  Hope this helps !!!

"I would, therefore, like to propose a toast to our children and grandchildren. They don't know this yet, but later on, they're going to be doing the washing up."