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Bride speeches or bridal speeches are really a fairly recent happening. After all, until fairly recently women were not liberated enough to speak at their own weddings. Today what they have to say is just as important as the father of the groom's speeches or the best man's speeches. If the groom can say how much his bride means to him, surely his bride can return the compliment?
Bride speeches, therefore, love in tone. They usually express the gratitude a bride feels to the parents who have done so much for her. They may include words of appreciation to her new in-laws saying how welcoming they have been to her. It is almost certain that she will want to say thanks to other people too. Her bridesmaids or maids of honour will be thanked for their help in preparing the wedding festivities and perhaps choosing her wedding gown with her. She may want to refer to a favourite Godmother or grandmother or indeed any relative who is special to her. It could be that she would want to thank a friend who sang at her wedding or a neighbour who arranged her bouquet. She may even want to thank a member of the clergy for a lovely and very personal wedding ceremony.
Obviously new husbands are the most special of all to any bride. It is to them that most bride speeches are directed. Brides may refer to where they met their grooms or tell of an incident in their courtships. They may want to say what a difference their new husbands have made in their lives. Of course they may also want to tease those new husbands and tell them that their wandering days are now firmly over or that they have to provide lots of shopping money as part of those marriage contracts.
There are often three or four speeches at a wedding so the secret of a good one is that it should be short and succinct A touch of humour will add greatly to it and of course the bride will know of any funny incidents that happened during the busy preparations for the wedding.
Above all though bride speeches should reflect the love brides feel for their spouses. They should be quite open about how they feel for the men in the lives. After all it isn't every day that you can do that.
Niamh Crowe
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Niamh Crowe started her speech writing career with Father of the Bride Speeches. To date she has written thousands of different speeches like Bride Speeches, birthday speeches and farewell speeches etc.
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