When trying to please people with your wedding toast, forgetting to thank someone is one thing. On the other hand saying the wrong thing altogether in the father of the bride wedding toasts could be a complete disaster! I really wanted to avoid doing this, so I researched a number of helpful tips to avoid this embarrassing situation.
Pleasing The Newlyweds
The worst thing you can do is start talking about embarrassing stories about your daughter’s ex-boyfriends. It might seem obvious, but believe me there are fathers that do it! Even if you want to compare your new son-in-law favourably, if she’s anything like mine she will not appreciate it – especially on the most important day of her life!
You should make sure to speak favourably of the bride at all times. Though it may seem fitting to add a slightly teasing joke, trust me, this is not the right situation for it. In my speech I stuck to what I knew my daughter would want me to say, and it worked!
Alcohol
However well you may have prepared your speech (probably better than I did!) your number one worst enemy is alcohol. Alcohol can bring just about anyone down, making them say the wrong things at the wrong times. I was really wary of this and decided to hold off on drinking until my speech was over. It’s a good thing I did, the groom’s father did not take the same advice.
A Few Other Tips
What made the idea of the father of the bride speeches stressful to me was the fact I didn’t plan ahead for my first daughter’s wedding. Not planning ahead means being in a lot less control of what you say and thats a mistake I only made once. Luckily there are plenty of resources online for those who even want a funny wedding speech that doesn’t offend anyone.
Lastly I have to add, no matter how well you say things, going on for too long isn’t going to go down well. People’s attention spans tend to be a bit short, and no one wants your long speech to separate their empty stomachs and the food waiting for them at the banquet. Try to work on your father of the bride speech so it doesn’t take an hour to deliver!
Posted by Paul | Posted in Funny Wedding Speeches | Posted on 25-04-2010-05-2008
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When you are drafting your special and memorable wedding speech, it is very important to make it humorous. Humor will make sure you keep the attention of your audience, making the wedding ceremony more enjoyable. Remember that your wedding speech is supposed to honor and praise the newlywed couple. Sending waves of laughter through the couple and their guests will further compliment your speech.
When formulating funny wedding jokes, you must consider the feelings, religion, beliefs and ages of the guests that will grace the occasion. You do not want to deliver a wedding speech that embarrasses the newlyweds, their family or yourself. Giving a funny wedding speech that the audience can relate with further emulates the joyful mood of the wedding occasion.
Drafting funny wedding speeches with the desired tone is not an easy task, but this can be achieved by ensuring the jokes added to the wedding speech fulfill a certain purpose. For instance emanating the positive changes that have occurred in the lives of the couple since they met. Presenting a funny speech that does not relate to the newlywed couple may be perceived as you are trying to steal the couple’s moment.
If you want to balance humor and poignant moments throughout wedding speeches, it is advised that you adopt an informal tone when presenting. It is best to imagine that you are conducting a one-on-one conversation with your close friends to help yourself deal with nerves. This will make sure you stay confident and effectively keep the attention of the audience.
Posted by Paul | Posted in Wedding Speech Examples | Posted on 24-04-2010-05-2008
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Here are a few examples of plug and play father of the bride wedding speeches:
As a father, seeing my beautiful, precious daughter married today is anoccasion that fills me with many emotions – some of them conflicting. On the one hand, I am bursting with pride at seeing my Bride’s Name all grown up and ready to embark on this exciting new chapter in her life, together with her wonderful new husband, Groom’s Name.
On the other, it makes me just a little sad saying farewell to that sweet little girl. Though I’m sure she’d prefer it if I didn’t dredge up any of those childhood memories today, I just want her to know how important a part of mine and her mother’s life she has been. And that we are overjoyed that she has found someone so terrific as Groom’s Name to share the rest of hers with.
We wish you both every imaginable happiness in life and look forward tomany more joyous occasions to come…
Here’s one more quick example of a great father of the bride wedding speech, and this one can be used if you are the father of the groom as well.
We can all see that you’re madly in love. That’s definitely the first
challenge – to find someone with whom you want to spend the rest of
your life.
But the trick and challenge I want to propose to you is that you set out
with the goal of falling a little more in love every day. So that by the time
you’re eighty you’re so in love that you wobble when you walk.
To do this, you have to have a plan and you have to be deliberate.
So here’s to falling a little more in love each day— and to Bride’s Name
and Groom’s Name.
The second wedding speech is a bit funnier. I didn’t write these myself, but I did come across them in my search for a great father of the bride wedding speech. Use them only if you are very short on time, I believe coming up with the wedding speech yourself is much more thoughtful.
I always knew that when my daughter and her fiance decided to get married I would have to write a father of the bride wedding speech, but I never knew how important that speech was going to be! You see after my failed wedding speech as father of the bride at my other daughter’s wedding, I figured I would pass up this right. Turns out you can’t fight tradition.
The only advice they gave me this time was to do the opposite of my last wedding speech, and to start early. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Plan ahead if you can!
When you start writing your father of the bride wedding speech it will seem like a really difficult endeavor. After all, it takes enough courage standing up in front of everyone in the first place that having to come up with an entertaining speech as father of the bride becomes too nerve wrecking!
As the day got closer I tried to think of an inspirational, but charming and hilarious wedding speech as father of the bride, but nothing was coming to mind. So what I eventually decided to do was to sit down and just write some of the thoughts that popped into my head.
Believe me, there are more efficient ways to plan a father of the bride wedding toast, but this was great for getting the old wheels moving.
It started out difficult, but as I began using speech prompts and guides, I soon started jotting down little tidbits of info about the family and my daughter. Some good ideas I had were the emotions I felt when I first saw my daughter, and the emotions her new husband feels as they start their journey together.
At this stage you’re better off not worrying about the order or the content of what you’re writing (or any wedding speech jokes!) The biggest problem in getting the perfect wedding speech is never actually starting to write it! So by jotting down my thoughts I was already over the first major hurdle for my father of the bride wedding speech.
