Father Of The Bride Speeches

When Do You Give Your Father Of Bride Speech?

April 11, 2010

This was a question that ran through my mind right up front, “When do I have to give my father of bride speech?”  Perhaps it was just a carryover from my grade school days where I always wanted to be the last one to give my oral report.

However, my wife was also giving a wedding speech, so I needed to coordinate content with her to avoid duplication. I was informed that it was traditional for the father of the bride to give his speech first, so I swallowed hard and took it like a man!

Since I was going first, I decided to do a little research on the internet to help me decide what I should include. I searched under “wedding speeches father” and found some helpful information, but nothing really comprehensive.

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To be truthful, I’m not an overly emotional guy, or at least not one who feels real comfortable openly showing a lot of emotion.

So, as you can imagine, I was really stressing over this speech which, I thought was going to have to be real emotional. I’ve since learned that “from the heart” doesn’t necessarily mean something that will choke you up and bring a tear to the eye.

One thing I did take care of up front was to make sure that the Master of Ceremonies knew that I was going first and how to introduce me. It was a little tricky since technically I’m my daughter’s step-father. She calls me Dad, since I’ve been around since she was very small, but has just recently reconciled with her birth father, who will also be attending the event.

Since I was going first I thought I would start off with a bang and then just let my daughter know how I felt about her and her new husband. But, it ended up being my wife that did the emotional “heavy” lifting as she followed up my father of bride speech, a touching tribute to a special daughter and new bride.

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