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Speech Guide: The Traditional Running Order Of Wedding Speeches

When it comes to wedding speeches, it’s important to know who speaks when on the big day, especially for grooms writing their speech. We asked speech writing coach Lawrence Bernstein to give us the breakdown of the running order of your wedding speeches…

Speech Guide: The Traditional Running Order Of Wedding Speeches

Before writing that all-important speech, a lot of grooms want to start with the facts. Who speaks first? Who toasts the bridesmaids? Who introduces the best man? They just want to get it right. However, it is increasingly common for the bride and groom to create their own running order to suit their particular situation. A bride’s father might be absent, for example, or the bride herself may want to speak. So before I give you the traditional running order below, I urge you to feel free to rejig it. This is just a loose guide. Use it as a starting point and play around with it as much as you like.

It’s increasingly common for the groom to speak first, particularly if he and the bride are hosting the wedding. If there’s no father of the bride, someone else might speak in his place – a friend of the family, a bridesmaid or the bride herself. Of course, as the roles change, so does the content of the speeches. But it doesn’t have to be confusing – so long as you are familiar with your particular running order, you’ll be fine.

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Traditional running order

Father of the bride

Traditionally, the father of the bride speaks first, often before dinner. He welcomes the guests, including the groom’s family, thanks everyone for coming, talks about his daughter and her new husband and toasts the happy couple.

The groom

The groom follows, often after dinner. He responds to the father of the bride’s toast, thank the hosts and everyone else who has helped, say something about his new wife and toasts the bridesmaids.

The best man

The best man then responds to the groom’s toast. Traditionally he should talk about the groom, how he knows him, mention the bride and throw in a few embarrassing stories that will get a laugh.

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