The Role Of Wedding Speeches

There are pretty well the standard wedding speeches and toasts. To get technical about these, there are some who offer a sentence or two as good wishes in the form of a toast, to those that can become quite lengthy as actual speeches. There used to be fairly staunch rules of order when it came to the toasts.

It would start with the best man making a toast to the bride. Following will be the Groom’s toast to the Bride. Then a thank you to the best man and all the parents. Closing with a toast to the bridesmaids. The best man responds with a thank you then following this is toasts by any others that want to. Finally, the Father of the Bride finishes this part of the ceremony with his toast.

Now that was the traditional way of the Wedding speeches. In today's modern weddings almost anything goes. It is common for the master of ceremonies to start with a toast to the couple as opposed to the individuals. The Groom will speak next by way of thanks to those attending and toast his bride. The Bride may then thank and toast to the parents. From here the toasts can go to and from anyone, usually ending with the toast by the Father of the Bride.

Probably, the non traditional methods of this part of the ceremony are the easiest with the fewest rules. Most often which method is followed normally depends on the scope of the wedding as to whether it is traditional or non-traditional as well as the size of the wedding as well. Those with bigger weddings often tend to be more formal.

Those in the wedding party most often have been told their responsibility when it comes to who is to toast and who is to give the wedding speeches. Anyone outside of the wedding party usually will offer a toast, although on the rare occasion you may get a guest or two that wants to give a small (hopefully) speech.

The toast usually involves some type of beverage. It is important that beverages be available for the toasting part of the ceremony. Most often this will be done with wine. However, etiquette calls for non alcoholic beverages or even water being available as well.

Certainly, nobody wants to offend anyone that is giving a speech and dragging on for too long. Most often someone in the crowd may make a jovial joke that brings the long winded speech to an end. Ideally, though it would be wise for the Bride and Groom to perhaps suggest prior to the wedding how long the speech should be approximately according to the time schedule of the ceremony. This often helps to keep those giving the speech on track.

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