10 things you don't want to forget about your reception - Will you give a thank you speech?

I will be giving a thank you speech probably after dinner

I will most likely have to do the thank you speech. I was thinking of doing it before the meal.

I'm pretty good with public speaking, so I'm sure I'll think of a short speech to say. No problem at all

A lot if people are helping with our reception. We have an aunt who is doing the favors, my mom is a big help, FH aunt is being super helpful and supportive as well as many others. It seems for me that I will be making a thank you toast thanking them and thanking the guests. Also with us eloping in the morning I feel it will be nice to acknowlege everyone making the effort to be there even if there is no ceremony.

I am not much of a public speaker but my fiance plans on doing a thank you speech.

Not overly keen on speaking in front of people neither is my FH, but I am going to attempt to do a thank you speech once everyone is kind of settled

We had speeches from both our dads and from my MOH and one of his grooms women. My husband also did a speech to thank the guests.

Yes, I think it's tacky to not thank people for coming, especially if they traveled. It will be short and sweet, but we will say something

Of course. There's a lot of people who are helping bring the big day together.

Yes, after dinner we will be giving a quick speech tougher

We are going to split our thank you speech and we will be giving it while the dessert is being given out. This will be after we have had the chance to go around to all the tables and see everyone.

I did give a speech on behalf of my husband too and thanked the stars including his parents watching over us that day. My speech was given before dinner started and the DJ had the program ahead of time with timing. The stand was set up with the mic.

Yep! Wont be a formal speech but we will go up and say a few words! Maybe have a list of people to thank but again nothing too formal!

I think we will, but we won't be forcing other people to give speeches so it might be a little weird. When do speeches normally happen?

Yes...as much as I don't want to....I've written it, need to go over it and practice. HUGE phobia of public speaking

As much as I hate it, we'll give a speech. I feel like we have to.

As much as my fiancée and I both hate speaking in front of people (yes, even people were close to) we will be doing a speech!

YEP! we both are okay with public speaking so yes we will be saying a couple things during the night lol heck I might just randomly grab the microphone and tell everyone to come dancing with us lol idk

My fiancé and I have a deal, I’m going to write it because I’m better at that, and he’s going to deliver it. It’s a win win because I hate giving speeches and he hates writing them.

As much as I HATE being the centre of attention... I'll suck it up for a quick thank you speech. But that is about as far above gotten with thinking about it lol... procrastinator extraordinaire 😉

Yes! We'll be the last ones to give a speech before hitting the dance floor for our first dance! We're going to give it jointly - but it'll probably be me mostly talking lol

Yes! That is one thing still on the to do list. We need to write it! FH thinks we can just go up a wing it but I would like it written. We have a wireless mic for all the speeches and we will be the last to speak before dances.

Yes we are going to give a half joint thank you speech. Just a general thank you to everyone. Quick mentions to dj, venue coordinator, photographer, caterer and any other vendor that is there. Quick thanks to our parents and a short little blurb each about our bridesmaids/groomsmen. Won't be a long speech at all, not down for standing there talking too long and speeches can get boring the longer they are.

We are definitely doing a thank you speech before the band starts playing after dinner.

FH and I will do it together. We haven't written it yet, but I know we will thank everyone who helped make the day possible, thank the guests for coming, and then we will say a little something to/about each other. The venue has a cordless Mic which is handy, otherwise I would worry that not everyone would be able to hear. We actually just met with our MC (a friend of ours) on Saturday to go over everything he needs to do, so he does know we will be giving a speech

We are doing a thank you speech. Both my fiancé and I will be speaking together. We won't be naming many people by name, but doing a general thank you, and of course, thanking our parents.

We did a thank you speech together. We had written it out beforehand and took turns thanking those involved. I was super nervous and didn’t look up the whole time! My advice: take a moment to scan the crowd!

I reaaaally hate being the centre of attention and having everyone stare at me, but I think I might HAVE to do a thank you speech. I should probably figure out something for this.

We are actually doing our thank you speech before the rest of them. A little unorthodox maybe..

but upon our grand entrance to the venue we are doing our first dance. Followed by our thank you, and then dinner. We kind of want to use it as an opportunity to welcome/greet all the guests as we a will not have talked to most of them at that point.

We are doing a general thank you to the guests. A thank you to our wedding party. And then I will be addressing his family and he will be addressing mine. We don't single anyone out in these besides the parents, as we didn't want to get in to a long drawn out speech or have someone feel like they weren't as important as another because we didn't talk about them as much.

We will be doing it together. It is already typed up with alternating parts.

DJ knows the plan. We have an alternate timeline as well though. If it's raining buffet tables will have to be on the dance floor.. so our first dance will have to move to after dinner but our speech will still stay before.

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What was the spark of the disaster? Disagreeing on timing? Or not wanting to do one? Or it just hadn't been thought of?

Definitely! We are going to do ours together.

We are only having a few speeches. My sister (MOH), FH Brother (Best Man), and both sets of parents.

We will then do a small thank you speech, hopefully during dessert right before all the dancing!

Our speeches will be kept short (3 min MAX). I think we'll only have 3 speeches :
- My parents;
- His parents (TBD)
- My FH and I.

Our DJ/MC isn't aware of this yet, as it is too early still to set anything in stone.