Speeches

Hi Sarah,

Both myself and my future hubs are doing a small thank you speech, my maid of honor, his best man and my parents will also be giving a small speech. We have opened the option to have anyone who would like to say something as well.

We are not going to get too specific and deep with our thank you speech as there are too many things we could say - so we're keeping it simple - we are also giving our speech before dinner is served so that it just leads us into it nicely.

Really appreciate everyone’s input thank you.

I’m a little worried about speeches because I feel like people tend to tune out after the first few minutes. So I’ve decided to keep each speech to a minute or two max. Myself and my FH will say a few words of thanks, my MOH has a FOUR PAGE speech planned (which she’s shortening down thank god), and my dad has a few things to say as well. Short, sweet and simple!

So both me and my fh will do a quick speech. Our best man and MOH. Potentially my brother as her also part of the wedding party and my dad for sure. Other then that it’s open to anyone else but hoping they’ll make it quick if they do decide to say something. I am excited because I have a videographer so I’ll get to go back and watch what people said as I’m sure I won’t remember much on the day of LOL.

I want to keep speeches to a minimum. Anyone who wants to do one has a 5 minute maximum before they get the hook. I think I'll end up doing the thank you speech from us, my MOH wants to do a speech and his BM said he will do one. My MC loves to talk so while he may not make a speech he will have his 15 minutes....

Us, both sets of parents, and maybe just MOH and BM

My plan for speeches is that My parents will do a speech my FH parents will do one. MY MOH, BM and then we will also.

Both sets of our parents will do speeches, my MOH (sister) and BM (brother in law) and then us.

I don't think we'll go super into the relationships but we'll definitely thank our families for helping us become the people we are, definitely thank my family for all of their support while I stress out over the planning and of course, thank all of the guests and our wedding party.

MC (family friend), best woman, MOH and bridesmaid, DH's dad and sister, my parents, and DH and I all made speeches. Everyone stayed within the 5 minute window, except my parents who HATE long speeches at weddings lol.

Our speech was to thank everyone for coming, thank vendors, parents, wedding party, and anyone who went the extra mile (godmother who made decor, etc). I started off with an antidote about DH proposing and he mentioned us meeting for the first time.

We had the MOH, both Best men, gave the option to the rest of the wedding party, and then we made a speech as well. We wanted our parents to say something but only my parents were going to because his Mom refused... She said if we put her up there all she would do is complain about how my DH changed his last name from her's to his father's....

The speeches were limited to kept simple and short given the wedding party were the only ones before I said the last speech. The DJ had a copy of the timeline sheet forgetting there was 1 other person he didn't call up for the speech being my best man. I felt bad that I even forgot as he asked me if there was anyone else. My husband isn't big on public speaking, so I did the speech for us both also including his parents being present along with other watching over us that day.

We haven't asked anyone specifically yet, but I know my grandma will want to say something, and FH's parents I'm sure will want to. We're not having a wedding party so no one is singled out as expected to say something, and which ever friends want to say something are welcome to. Then FH and I will have a little thank you speech. We are not good public speakers so it will be short without getting too detailed

The best man, groom’s parents and bride’s parents are doing a speech at our wedding. We offered for our maid of honour to do a speech but she said she wouldn’t be able to do public speaking.


We’re doing a speech to thank the wedding party, parents, venue staff, photographers, MC. We get a little mushy thanking our parents, but don’t get too into details or relationships.