Bride and Groom Speech

I'm sure we will be doing a thank you portion of the speech- probably at the beginning. I also think we will talk about our journey together and the wedding planning. Maybe throw in a funny story.

Not sure on wording but I agree that going with something about them being a part of your life too and how much their love and support means to you. I do love that you are taking the time to share a bit of yourselves with your guests.

I am not an emotional person and my fiancé hates being the centre of attention so I think we are just keeping it to a simple and sweet thank you to everyone.

We plan on doing the thank yous as per usual as well as recognizing each others parents. We also want to commemorate the family members we have lost that we wish were there with us. We want to keep it as short an concise as possible because by the time we speak at the end, everyone will be getting antsy to start the party.

We thanked everyone for helping and being supportive and how lucky we felt and how much we loved everyone and looked forward to more years together and with everyone. I thanked his family for being so accepting of my from the start and he thanked my mum for being so wonderful. Then we wrapped up.

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I had a speech mentioning

Thanking the guests for coming
Families uniting as one
Wedding party thank yous
Immediate family honourables
Finishing with the bells attached to menu cards to ring instead of clinging the glasses and having a great time.

We are keeping ours fairly simple

- Thank everyone for coming

- Groom: Thanks my dad

- Groom: Thanks his mum

- Bride: Thanks his dad

- Bride: Thanks my mom

- Bride: Says some lovely stuff about finance

- Groom: Says some lovely stuff about finance

- Wraps up

I agree with Sarah, promising you will always make time for them. My fiancé’s family is really close and his immediate family likes to get together for Sunday dinners sometimes 3 times a month. We alternate between their place and ours. Also we have gatherings with his whole family on special days as his cousin passed away in Afghanistan back in 2009 and those things are very important to them. I guess think what is very important to your in laws, is it spending time visiting, or maybe it’s phone calling or celebrating special holidays or carrying out family traditions.

Our speech was somewhat similar. We met overseas, so not many people knew our story of how we met. We thanked everyone for coming and then went into our story (from each perspective, it was pretty funny), and then we finally thanked our parents and our wedding party and left everyone with a few words of wisdom. It was around a 3-minute speech filled with a few laughs. It seemed to go well, so I would definitely say go for it!

You could include a promise to visit them often (or call them a lot) if they're from out of town, or to allow them to spoil your children (if you plan on having any). I'm always about the laughs, so they would be silly promises if I were to do this, but you could always do more sentimental ones.

That no matter what happens in the family, you will be there not only for their son but for them too? And we haven’t planned ours out much yet, but we together are keeping it less than 10 minutes, because I feel if it was any longer people would lose interest and get bored.

Following this discussion! I like the idea of the promises and stuff; more than just saying thanks!