Funny Father of the Bride Speeches - The Best Speeches For Weddings

In weddings, funny father of the bride speeches are recommended. Rather than giving out a very formal and overly-dramatic speech, people prefer to hear a lighter one. After all, weddings are about happiness and sharing love. This is not the time to be sulking although tears of joy are always expected. However, there are some things you need to remember when incorporating humor in your speech.

Focus on your theme. Whether you want to tell a funny anecdote or use a funny quotation, make sure that it is in relevance to your central message. Bear in mind that the bride and groom are the stars of the occasion.
Be respectful. Don't be funny at the expense of others. Make sure that your jokes are well intended and that none will feel upset about them. Watch out for jokes that may seem to have double meaning or may sound offensive to certain people.

Don't ridicule the bride. When sharing funny stories, you don't want to put the bride in a humiliating situation. Although mild funny pokes are okay, you don't want to say something that can make the bride feel uncomfortable, even if you are telling a true story. Be sensitive about your story-telling.

Keep it wholesome. Because a wedding is a family celebration, children of varying ages will be there. Do not tell jokes that are intended only for adult's ears. Avoid using languages that are not fit for kids.

Speak from the heart. A humorous speech largely depends on how it is delivered. When giving your speech, relax and be yourself. Don't try to put on an act to try to be funny. People will appreciate you more by speaking what you truly feel.

Make your speech meaningful. Although you want to add a touch of humor to your speech, don't forget to make it meaningful. This is your chance to give your personal message to the bride and groom. Give some fatherly advice to the couple on how to live a happy married life. However, keep it light and go easy on the advices. One or two statements should be enough. There is no need to elaborate what you mean.

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A Custom Bride T Shirt For Your Reception Or Bridal Shower - Why Not

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Now that it has become so much cheaper and easier to design custom t shirts, people are using them in more and more creative ways. There is nothing that will liven up a bridal shower faster and better than a custom bride t shirt and now you don't have to even drive anywhere to have them produced. With the advent of Internet based custom t shirt companies, its as easy as sitting down at your computer and sending an email with your design in it. The t shirt company will simply load your design into their t shirt printers memory and then quickly and easily print out your shirts.

The Very Latest in Digital Print Technology

Its the very latest in digital print technology that has been adapted to print on fabrics. This means that unlike older style silk screen methods there are no set up or minimum order costs. So, if all that you need is even as few six or seven custom bride t shirts, you can do that and there won't be any added charges for your smaller order.

Portrait Custom Bride T Shirts

Another great thing about this amazing new digital printing technology that Internet based custom t shirt services are using, is that it can print portraits super accurately. This means that you can take a group photo at your bridal shower and have it transferred directly onto your custom bride t shirt that you design and then send one to everyone that attended.

Let Your Mind Wander for Great Ideas

Its so easy to come up with clever ideas for custom t shirts now that they are so easy and affordable to have made. Just let your imagination wander and it won't take long before your head is filled with great concepts for custom t shirts that you can hand out for wedding favors at your wedding reception.

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Chinese Wedding Custom 2 - Wedding Day

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The Wedding Day! 大喜日

Fetching the bride 迎亲

If the bride's family required a matchmaker 媒婆for the chinese wedding, she will accompany the groom to fetch the bride. The matchmaker, or Best man if there is no matchmaker, will carry a red tray containing a red packet with the bride's price, a piece of raw pork front leg which is the mother's reward for bringing up the bride, even number of oranges, dried persimmons, longan, lotus seeds, and magnolia petals (pak hup).

The red tray will be returned with the oranges replaced in even numbers to signify that the newly joined families will share their good fortune. An even numbered portion of the bride's price will be returned in the red packet. Even numbered cans of pork trotters or a red packet may be used instead of the raw pork leg.

Bride's younger brother to open the bridal car door 小舅开车门

The groom must not open the car door when he arrives to fetch his bride. The bride's younger brother will pass him two oranges before opening the door. The two oranges will be left in the bridal car for good fortune. The groom will give this younger brother a red packet after he opens the car door. If the bride has no younger brother, a younger male relative or a younger male friend can play the role.

Kiss the bride! 亲亲新娘

The groom and the brothers' troop will be served sweet desserts with pink rice ball and snacks at the bride's home. The groom will enter the bride's room and lift her veil to kiss her. Taoist couple will pray to the bride's ancestors and family gods before leaving the bride's home.

Chinese Wedding Ceremony 过门/拜堂成亲

The chinese were mainly Taoists or ancestor worshipers before foreign religions such as Christianity, Muslim or Buddhism enter China. Taoists believed in the power of heaven and earth to witness important events on earth. It was also believed that a parent or family elder must acknowledge a union for it to be official.

In traditional chinese wedding ceremony the bride and groom will first pray to heaven and earth, then to the groom parents or family elders and lastly bow to each other 一拜天地，二拜高堂，夫妻交拜. The three prayers sealed the marriage. The couple was escorted into the bridal chamber, the equivalent of the bridal room, to consummate their marriage.

Modern chinese wedding skip the ritual of the three prayers. The bride and groom will enter the bridal room directly after entering the groom's home. Groom's family members will hide in the house to avoid clashing of fortune with the new couple. After the family members have returned to the family hall, the couple will join them. The Taoist bride and groom will pray to the groom's ancestors and family gods at this time.

Wedding Tea Ceremony 敬茶

Without the traditional three prayers, the tea ceremony becomes the most significant event in the modern chinese wedding ceremony. The bride and groom are formally introduced to each other's family through this ceremony.

It will usually take place on the wedding day when most of the family members are present. If some members are not available, supplementary sessions can be conducted at the wedding dinner or at other convenient times and locations.

Sweet tea boiled with dried longan, lotus seeds and red dates are used for the Tea ceremony. The tea ceremony gifts such as red packets or jewellery are presented on the serving plate after drinking the tea.

Bride's home visit 三朝回门

Traditionally the bride's home visit is three days after the chinese wedding ceremony. For efficiency, modern chinese wedding usually compressed all the necessary events into a single day.

After the tea ceremony at the groom's family home, the bride will change out of her western style wedding gown to symbolise passing of three days!

Bride's younger brother to escort the bride home 小舅伴新娘回门

The bride's younger brother will arrive at the groom's home with a wedding basket 油篮 filled with toiletries, perfumed oils and make-up for his sister.
The bridal car will fetch the bride's younger brother to the groom's home. The groom will welcome the younger brother by opening the car door for him.

Gifts for the bride's home visit 回门礼

The bride's home visit is the couple's first visit to her parent's home as a married couple. Other than the gifts for her parents, the couple gives red packets to all the elder members and children in the family.

In the past, many dialect groups required gifts of a pair of sugar cane, at least a pair of live rooster and hen. These带路鸡 "dai lu ji" were supposed to lead the way. The return gift of a rooster and hen will be put under the bridal bed back at the groom's home. It was believed that the firstborn will be male if the rooster came out first.

To simplify matters most of these gifts are no longer required or are replaced by red packets for modern chinese weddings. Nowadays, only symbolic items are required. Tangerines or mandarin oranges 橘子"Juzi" sounds like good fortune 吉 "Ji" in chinese and must be included as part of the gifts. If tangerines are out of season, oranges can be used instead.

If one of the bride's parents is cantonese, the roast pig 烧猪is definitely required as part of the gifts for the bride's home visit. For non-cantonese, sometimes roast pork 烧肉 instead of a whole roast pig is requested.

For teochew, two big red packets of their favorite traditional peanut and sesame candies豆条芝麻条 are usually requested. For hokkiens, combinations of popped rice blocks, or popped rice and sesame rolls, peanut chewy candies, bean paste cookies米方麻佬贡糖豆沙饼 are usually requested.

A portion of all gifts are returned to signify sharing of fortune between the two families.

During the bride's home visit, a sweet soup with lotus seeds, dried longan, dates and pink rice balls will be served to wish the couple a sweet harmonious marriage.

The modern chinese wedding ceremony is completed after the bride's home visit. The wedding banquet may be on the same day or another day as it is just an announcement and celebration of the marriage.

The couple and the parents will give red packets to all the helpers at the wedding including beauticians, drivers, bestmen and bridesmaids, matchmaker, photographers, videographers, receptionists and ushers, etc.

Jina Boo is the editor of http://www.chinese-wedding-guide.com, a website dedicated to preserving chinese wedding customs and culture. The website features:
- significance of chinese wedding customs and traditions,
- the items and persons needed to perform them, and
- suggested timeframe for preparation of chinese wedding.

A guide for drafting your own chinese wedding invitation is also included.

Click on http://www.chinese-wedding-guide.com/ezinearticles to visit the site to learn more about chinese weddings.

Tips For the Brother of the Bride

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If you are the brother of the bride, you may not think that you have much of a role to play in the upcoming wedding, but that is not true. There are plenty of ways in which you can participate and share in the excitement. Here are some tips on how to be a great brother of the bride.

A lot of guys are not really that "into" weddings, and unless it is your wedding, that is just fine. You may think that your sister and mom are going absolutely crazy over this whole wedding thing (especially if you are the younger, unmarried brother of the bride), and it may even be true. However, you will do yourself no favors by sharing that opinion with your sister, for whom the wedding is probably one of the biggest days of her entire life. A better tactic when your sister starts going on about the wedding is just to smile and nod while she talks; she may not even notice that your eyes have glazed over!

Most brothers of the bride will be asked to participate in the ceremony in some way. You will probably be asked to serve as a groomsman, and your duties will be much the same as those of the rest of the groomsmen. You get to help with the bachelor party, be fitted for a tuxedo, receive one of the groomsmen gifts, attend the rehearsal and dinner afterwards, and stand up with the groom during the marriage service. Single brothers will be pleased to hear that they are also responsible for escorting a pretty young bridesmaid up the aisle during the recessional.

As a member of the family, it would be nice for the bride's brother to go above and beyond what the other groomsmen may offer to do. It is a nice gesture towards the groom, and a way to help welcome him into your family. For instance, you might assist the groom in finding the perfect groomsmen gifts, as well as a wedding day gift for his sister (usually jewelry). You can also help with planning the bachelor party or guys' weekend away. And finally, the bride's brother can give the groom the inside scoop on the rest of the members of his family.

Speaking of the bachelor party, even though you are the bride's brother, you are there as a friend to the groom, so it is your duty to keep your lips sealed about what went on, unless something terribly inappropriate took place. You wouldn't be the first brother of the bride to be besieged by questions from a curious sister, but really all you should tell her is that everyone had a great time and that it was good clean fun. This will help to put her mind at ease, while also showing the groom that his future brother-in-law is a real buddy, not a spy for his sister.

At times the brother of the bride might end up taking on a more important role in the wedding. If their father has passed away, it would be very appropriate and touching for the bride's brother to be the one to walk her down the aisle and give her away. It is also very nice if you give a brief toast at the reception. Keep it brief and congratulatory; you surely know all sorts of embarrassing stories about your sister, but the wedding toast is not the time to bring them up!

With a little more involvement, the bride's brother might actually find that her wedding can be a good time. You also have the pleasure of gaining a new brother, and if you are single, meeting some attractive women (weddings often breed more weddings, you know). In the end, you might just come to discover that being the brother of the bride is not so bad after all.

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Wedding Favors - 10 Custom Koozie Designs Guaranteed To Make A Splash

Weddings are a time to remember. If you really want to be remembered for your wedding, then try customized Koozie's that the guests can keep. They can come in many different colors and can have pretty much any design you can possibly imagine on them. You can buy them with taste in mind, or if your families live a little on the wild side, there are always the “funny” koozie's. I am going to list the top 10 designs guaranteed to make a lasting impression. For the sake of keeping this a little more on the light side, I believe that you will enjoy these little laugh a minute blurbs from some of the best koozies online!

Kool Koozie Ten: “Marriage is a 3-Ring Circus! Let the Show Begin!” The picture depicts three rings in the center of the text. The bride and groom's names appear on the koozie, with the date of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Nine: “Made it to the church.... on Time!!!” The picture depicts a church in the background. The bride and groom's names appear on the koozie, with the date of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Eight: “Eat, Drink and be Married!” The picture depicts a guy holding a piece of cake in one hand and a cold draft beer in the other. The bride and groom's names appear on the koozie, with the date of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Seven: “COMMITMENT” The picture depicted below the word commitment is of a pair of handcuffs. The bride and groom's names appear below the picture, with the date of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Six: “To have and to hold and to keep your beer cold!” The picture depicts a cold draft beer in the center of the text. The bride and groom's names appear below the picture and text, with the date of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Five: “We Got Lucky.” The picture on the koozie depicts a 1 cent piece face up. The bride and groom's names appear below the picture, with the date of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Four: “Vows are done, time for fun!” The picture depicts them driving away in a car with the words just married on the back of the car. The bride and groom's names appear below the picture with the date and the location of the wedding.

Kool Koozie Three: The Bride and Groom's names were depicted first on this koozie. The picture is of a bride holding a fishing rod with the groom dangling from the hook upside down. The text below the picture reads “A Reel Catch,” and the date and location of the wedding followed the catch phrase. (No Pun Intended.)

Kool Koozie Two: “Another 1 Bites the Dust” The picture depicts the groom standing there looking confused with a ball and chain locked to his ankle. The koozie also includes the bride and groom's names below the picture.

Kool Koozie Number One: (Drum Roll Please!) The Bride and Groom's names are on the top of the koozie. It said, “Insert Bride's name and Groom's name got married and all I got was this darn KOOZIE.” Then at the very end, it states the date of the wedding.

There are many places you can get custom designed Koozies - no matter where you get them, these designs are sure to make a splash!

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