Father of the Bride Speech Examples

Never easy to compose and make any speech, but with the help of hitched.co.uk and a few of my own thoughts this speech seemed to cover all the main areas with a bit of humour and humility and thankfully it went down really well on the day.

Tears, cheers and laughter in all the right places. Thanks for the useful speeches on your website.

Don't know if my first attempt made it to you or not but I had such a good experience with your site and the feedback on my speech was amazing.  I am now preparing a speech for our second wedding in four months so no wonder I'm back at your site.  I hope this helps somebody out there.  Thank-you, Howard

I got lots of ideas and inspiration from others on this site - and from a few other sites out there.  Hope this helps somebody else in the same way.

Note from me: this site was very helpful in putting my speech together, so mine is provided simply to return something to the pool in exchange for what I got out of it.

I had a lot of fun (and a little pain) preparing this speech and even more delivering it. This site was a tremendous help. I read literally hundreds of the speeches (not just FOB ones). I didn't want just a bullet point list of well-worn jokes, but a narrative which not only described my feelings but would also entertain. So much of a wedding speech (particularly FOB) depends on circumstances and no two people's are the same, but there are similarities and I was interested in everyone's story and how they told it, some of which I could take and fashion it to my own. Thanks to all those that in