A Great Maid Of Honor Speech Example

Unprepared To Make A Maid Of Honor Speech?  Not Anymore With These Suggestions.

Hi, Anna here….

And so it was for me not too terribly long ago!  But I overcame that gosh awful feeling with some very helpful Maid Of Honor Speech advice that was desperately needed.  If you are going to be a Maid Of Honor for a special friend or maybe your sister, please keep reading…………

I devoted this entire little site to help those who are looking for advice on maid of honor speeches or maybe you want to know how to word your speech.

Based on my personal experience, my hope is this site will have all the maid of honor speech tips you need.  The days leading up to and the wedding itself will be emotional enough and you don’t need this anxiety hanging over your head.  So let me just provide to you some simple, easy to learn tips on how to craft your maid of honor speech.

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Oh, in addition to this post, I posted plenty more speech suggestions with my special Maid Of Honor Speech Recipe and Maid Of Honor Speech Tips posts.  Please check those out too!

Let me give you my top 2 tips:  (whatever you do, don’t leave these 2 things out)

• Make sure you include humor.  Everyone loves to hear about funny moments involving the bride.  The Maid Of Honor Speech should include some funny little story from when you grew up or something stupid you both did together.  You could turn a story from when the bride first met the groom into a funny moment.  For me, it was when our mom made some cookies for company visiting and I went out back, and between me and our dog, ate them all.  But my sister took up for me and told mom she thought they were all for her. 
• Immediately after, say something sincere and touching about the bride.  Tell a little story from the heart.  A fond memory you both shared together.  My sister and I are only 3 years apart.  I included in my Maid Of Honor Speech a quip about how we told stories and romanticized to each other about what our wedding were going to be like.  And that we made a pact to be each other’s Maid Of Honor.

To be honest, what really put this all together for me personally was reading over some really useful and neat Maid Of Honor Speech Examples one of my friends emailed to me.  That neat compilation not only provided many of the excellent tips I’ve mentioned on my site but I got to see some really awesome and actual written examples to go with those tips. That really eased my fears about my maid of honor speech and helped me stand up in front of all those people with confidence.  Thankfully, I did not embarrass myself or my sister knowing what I knew. My sister and mom told me it was the most beautiful and sincere speech they had ever heard.  I felt so relieved.

And speaking of emotions.  Please, please, please don’t worry about being emotional while making your maid of honor wedding speech.  It really is ok to cry while speaking.  It shows real love, that you are caring, and your maid of honor speech comes from the heart with meaning.  The speech will mean more to the bride.  Trust me on this!  It is ok….

If it helps you to relax, sip a drink of wine 15 minutes before you speak.  Also another helpful hint, jot a note or 2 on your hand for important points you don’t want to miss. Reading right off a piece of paper word for word doesn’t look natural.

If you follow these tips and use those really helpful maid of honor speech examples from the same set I did, your maid of honor speech will be the hit of the wedding.  I can promise you that.

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Funny Maid of Honor Speeches

Funny Maid of Honor Speeches

The best man’s speech is usually expected to be the comic relief at a wedding reception, but there’s no reason why there can’t be funny maid of honor speeches too.  Funny maid of honor speeches can be some of the most interesting to listen to, because even through all the humor, they are able to retain the deep emotion that a lot of best man speeches lose.

At least half of all maids of honor cry at some point during their wedding speeches.  It comes naturally to a lot of women to cry at weddings.  When the bride is her life-long best friend or her baby sister, the maid of honor sometimes has no choice but to wear waterproof mascara, bring along a box of Kleenex and hope for the best.  The good news is that funny maid of honor speeches do not have to be tear-free. The combination of emotion and humor will make the speech even more touching to the bride and her guests. You can also check Best Man Speeches here.

A maid of honor who is not particularly outgoing or confident in her public speaking ability may back down from the idea of using humor in her speech because she’s just not sure she can pull it off well.  She may come up with a list of jokes she could use and then start to wonder, “What if no one laughs?”  This fear is made even worse by the fact that she’ll deliver her speech alongside a best man who’s a notorious crowd pleaser.  Fortunately, the maid of honor doesn’t have to be a standup comedian to get a room full of wedding guests laughing.  There are many different ways to bring humor into a wedding speech, and no one style is more desirable than any other.

A lot of wedding speakers start off their speeches with a joke or clever one-liner.  Wedding speech jokes often require very little creative energy and don’t necessarily have to come naturally to the speaker because they are readily available in books, magazines and internet sites.  But while jokes may be the most common form of speech humor, they can also be the most difficult to use.  Even speakers who would otherwise consider themselves naturally funny can freeze up under the pressure of speaking to a large number of people, especially on an emotionally and physically tiring occasion like a wedding.  That’s why it’s so important for most speakers to prepare and practice the speech ahead of time.

Another popular style of wedding humor comes in the form of humorous anecdotes. A maid of honor may get the guests (and bride!) laughing by telling a funny story about something the bride did, her first impression of the groom, etc.  These stories should be chosen carefully so as to relate in some way to the occasion at hand and avoid offending anyone with inappropriate content. Again, preparation is key. Even a maid of honor with no public speaking experience can stand up and share a memory that will make everyone laugh, as long as she takes the time to get comfortable with the wording ahead of time.

Tone is perhaps the most under appreciated style of wedding speech humor, but it’s easy and effective if you know how to use it.  In this type of humor, it’s not what you say, but how you say it.  Sarcasm is one of those things that a lot of quieter personality types possess, though they may not realize that it works in their favor.  Whether it comes out in a tongue in cheek remark, a dry tone, or a light-heated attempt to make fun of you, a touch of sarcasm is often very useful in funny maid of honor speeches.  If it fits your personality, use it – just don’t cross over into cynicism.

While no one style of humor is better than the others, there is a right and wrong choice for every maid of honor speech.  The “right” choice is the one that springs naturally from the speaker’s personality. That is not to say that it’s a bad idea to look to outside sources for inspiration when writing a maid of honor speech.  Getting help is fine, just so long as your speech reflects your personality.

Father of the Bride Speeches Examples

A wedding is always an emotional moment. It brings two people together for life and sanctifies their relationship. It’s one of those days of your life that stay with you forever…it’s an experience that you live with. It never becomes a memory. Wedding transforms the life of the bride and the groom. But the transformation comes along with a transition for the bride. She psychological gets transformed into a wife and accepts the groom’s family and name.

Another person for whom this moment is as special, as transforming and as transitional as it is for the bride is the bride’s father (both her parents actually). He is the man who gives a part of his life away. This moment marks the beginning of a new life for his daughter with a new man in her life. It tells the father that he is not the only most important man in his daughter’s life. The groom, the guests and most of the entire bride look up to the father to say a few words.

As a father it is quite difficult to control your feelings at such an emotional moment and speak to the gathering in a composed and contained manner. But it is a duty and privilege that every father has to honor. So do it with all your heart.

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You are the father. So your maid of honor speech should be dignified. You ought to be sentimental but and you should voice your feelings; but don’t get too sentimental, at least not in front of so many people.
Begin with introducing yourself. Speak on behalf of your wife and yourself. No doubt it’s the father who gives the daughter away, but the mother’s heart beats equally heavy.

Welcome all the guests and thank them. Give special attention to the groom’s parents and immediate family. Say some good words about them and make them feel welcome into your family.

Make your daughter feel as important and special as you can. Make her feel beautiful. Tell her that you are proud of her. Make the best of this moment to tell your daughter what she means to you. Remember, she is getting married and entering a new life; but her heart beats for the assurance from you that her parents are always there for her. You can share some of the cherished moments that you have had with your princess. Highlight the best part of her personality. Tease her, pamper her, advise her and wish her the best life. But be gentle in your words.

Formally welcome the groom. He is the man you have trusted your daughter with. Express what he means to you as a person. Again, you can crack jokes but don’t let him done… not even in the slightest manner.
Express how you think about your daughter and son-in-law as a couple. Tell people how you have seen them grow in each other’s company.

Advise the new couple about the ‘golden rules’ of a happy married life. These should be based on your experience as a married man.

End your speech with a toast to the happy future of the new couple.
For every daughter, her father is her hero. And she needs the most of that ‘heroism’ at the on shoot of her new life. You have built her life. Now build her day up. You have given your daughter to the groom, and when you rise to deliver your speech, give your heart to your daughter. Also read the Father of the Groom Speech