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Bride Speeches At Wedding Receptions – How To Write One
Posted on 1/29/2010 at 8:57:35 PM
By Felicity Porter
Bride speeches at wedding receptions may seem to be a task just a tad too big for you to manage, especially since you already have a hard time thinking straight with all the million details to keep in mind for the wedding celebration. Come to think about it you didn’t really need this along with everything else you’re handling right now, but you do want to give a speech, even if it’s just to let the people, who helped make this wonderful day an awesome one, know how much you appreciate them.
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So with being so busy and running to and fro to get every last detail taken care of, how are you supposed to get a speech done . . . You can hardly think straight right now and a calm moment to collect your thoughts and write a speech seems as far out of reach as the moon. Well, when you get up tomorrow morning pick up a yellow pad, do some brainstorming over your morning coffee and write down every detail that comes up that you may want to weave into your speech, at wedding celebrations some feeling and fun is always good. Even though the day ahead of you may be very eventful, this is something you can do bit by bit throughout the day. Whenever a thought or idea pops into your mind, stop for a second and note it down. You might be surprised how much raw material you can accumulate by the end of the day. Now the only challenge is how are you going to shape that messy pile of thoughts into an amazing speech?
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For speeches at wedding receptions or rehearsal dinners it helps to set a simple structure down to give the whole idea some sense:
- A good start would be to express your happiness about this wonderful day which has finally arrived,
- how you guys met,
- what the first thing was that made you dream about him,
- the things you like best about him,
- why you want to marry him and only him and
- how you can’t wait to start your future with him.
- Then you could also refer to your parents and your in-laws,
- thank them for their part in making this day possible,
- thank them for preparing the both of you for your adult live, which you will now spend together.
- After that you can continue to mention and thank others on your list, just bear in mind: if you mention Aunt Lucy, you also will have to mention Aunt Meredith, which leads you to having to bring up dear Uncle John and then also Uncle Ben, and so on. You see where I’m going with this, choose carefully or you might end up spending your wedding celebration trying to find the end of your own speech.
- Weave in a memory or two; just always keep it on the positive side.
- Close with a witty toast and . . . you’ve got yourself an outline.
You can use the material from your first sheet of thoughts and anecdotes and fill in the structure. Change them around until they fit and got some flow. You shouldn’t go over ten to fifteen minutes for your speech, at weddings (or anywhere really) people’s attention span is rather short. When giving a bride speech at wedding receptions, it’s important to stay on everybody’s good side. You don’t want to dampen the spirit of the celebration with a remark that’ll follow you for years to come.
So when you follow a simple outline you will see that writing memorable and heartwarming bride speeches, at wedding celebrations almost a must nowadays, isn’t all that hard to do or time-consuming as you might have thought.
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