How weddings have changed on the decades! From a handful to 400-500 invited guests; one-two to six-eight wedding party members; a straightforward wedding car to expensive and big wedding cars; three course meals to six course meals; one to three live bands; simple attire to colorful and flamboyant dresses, suits and attire and off-the-cuff to well-prepared wedding speeches.
Speaking of rogues, wedding speeches continue to be an important part of being married and guests do look ahead to hearing them, talking about them before, during as wll as after they’ve been delivered.
We have all heard of wedding speeches delivered prior to meal, in the meal after the meal, yet it is of a strong opinion that the father of the groom speech should be delivered as soon as the meal. I know that for many wedding party speakers i.e. Father with the Bride Speech, Father in the Groom Speech, Bride Speech, Groom Speech and Bestman Speech (the five main speakers), they will prefer to have the wedding speeches before the meal, to allow them to enjoy their meal (a lot of them are spending money for it!). However, all is here the invited guests and just how most of them (as wll as the wedding ceremony venue staff) would prefer the marriage speeches being delivered following your meal for a lot of reasons, many of which include:
The invited guests have already been fed and watered and aren’t listening to wedding speeches on an empty stomach (at least of food, which could be before the meal, though weddings today do provide light snacks upon arrival on the wedding venue)
Food can be cooked and served on the agreed time (introduce the marriage speeches before the meal along with their could be a delay of A quarter-hour one.5 hours, driving your home staff crazy continuing to keep food freshly cooked, presentable and edible)
The wedding ceremony speeches behave as the transition from your meal towards the dancing (without a penny happening as soon as the meal, everyone is expecting ‘a few words’ being shared regarding the Bride & Groom and they are fully aware they are able to stand up, move around, come out, take a stroll, go to the bar…)
It can be difficult for parents from the Bride & Groom to communicate in public places, as most of them couldn’t survive used of computer. So, they can, when they so wished, speak ahead of the / their meal.
There should nevertheless be some kind of formal speech(es) as soon as the meal…
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