Father of the Bride Speech Examples

I was helped by this site and wanted to help other fathers of bride ideas that might work.  Hope this helps !!!

I found the speeches of other “fathers of the bride” very useful, in at least one case copying a sentence almost word for word.  I’d be glad to think that others used my speech in the same way

I looked at a lot of the speeches here and although very good felt that some were just too long and that it is the Best Mans speech that is waiting to be heard. As Father of the Bride I wanted to welcome every one, thank the neccessary people, something brief obout the couple and raise a toast to the both of them. Then it was the Grooms speech followed by the Best Man.  Mine was two  two and a half of minutes with a few ad libs. I think of ideal length and content.  

I'm not a speech writer but with the help of this website and my wife taking all the hard work out of it, we managed to create this speech. I was nervous on the day but it went down really well..!   The day was simply beautiful, the best ever and our lovely daughter looked amazing, we only wished the day could have lasted forever!!    We hope this speech is helpful and you will be able to take snippets from it and tweak it to your own requirements..Good luck and we hope your wedding is as lovely as ours was!!

I pretty much memorised the speech (walking and talking to myself a few days before and on the morning of the wedding day), but I had a printed copy in large font on the table in front of me just in case. It worked well and was well received so please feel free to borrow a few lines - I know I did :)

The  speech went down very well  and took just over five minutes to deliver.

Many of the guests told me that it was a beautiful speech.  Many of the women had tears in their eyes, and two men said that they had lumps in their throats. One of the bridesmaids said that she wanted me to be her dad when she got married.