Father Wedding Speech

I started thinking about my Father Wedding Speech after Kristi came to my wife and I telling us that she decided to get married. We both felt such an immense joy. I also knew that as a father, I will have to prepare my father of the bride wedding speech carefully, for this very special occasion.

I never really thought about giving a brides father speech previously and figured I would just say a few words right there on the day of the wedding. So, with about a week before my daughter’s wedding, we were invited and attended  a good friend of my wife’s wedding, Michelle. Now, typically I attend weddings to visit with people and to check out all the good food, and so was the case this time, but I paid particular attention to the father of the bride wedding toast, since that would be me next week. So Michelle’s father, like me, trusted his paternal knowledge, and courage, and he spoke from his heart… he started out with a few wedding jokes which was good, the only problem was he started blabbering at some point, and although he spoke from the heart and was well intended the speech lost some of the power.

The next day I decided to work on my father bride speech, because it was too important for myself, and my daughter deserved the best of what I could offer, and be the father she could be proud of.

So please,  don’t wait until the last moment, like I did, if that’s possible, and start thinking about the speeches seriously and  at what the moment means for you and your daughter, and find some time to put your thoughts on paper, some wedding speech tips.

As the date closed in, I started to write any wedding speech ideas that popped into my head. Should I make the wedding speech funny? Should it be serious and formal? Who should I acknowledge when writing a wedding speech? it was pretty hard to get it right.

Surely there are easier ways to prepare the speech for father of the bride, but I preferred this way because it got me off to a good start, and it was the only thing that came into my head. At first it was difficult, but when I began using speech prompts and guides I soon started to write down pieces of information about me and my daughter, like how she was as a baby, what she liked, what she was like as a teenager, even some funny happenings, and how our relationship grew stronger over time.

Of course, at this point I didn’t pay too much attention to the order of the content, and neither should you. Because as I learned, the biggest problem in obtaining great wedding toasts, is to never starting to write them down! So by putting my ideas on paper, I was over the first hop, and  my father of the bride wedding speech started to take shape.