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As with the Father of the bride speech the groom traditionally gets up to say a few words and in some cases and more so these days the bride will join her groom in speaking to their guests.

The groom must make sure that he says all of his thank yous and comments as a couple, especially if his bride does not join him in the speech. During the grooms speech the presents should be given out to all those people who have helped with the organisation of the wedding. Presents should be given to both parents and in particular the mums, a large bunch of flowers always does the trick. Presents should also be given to the bridesmaids, the best man, the page boys and a nice touch is to give the bride a large bunch of flowers too.

The groom’s speech should include the following:

1. I always think that the groom should start his speech with commenting on how beautiful his bride looks and tell the guests how happy he is to have married her.

2. Even though the father of the bride might well have thanked everyone for coming to the wedding, it is good for the groom to thank everyone too. The groom might also want to make mention of those guests who have travelled a long way to attend their special day.

3. The groom should then thank the bride’s parents for the reception and of course if this is a shared cost between both parents then make sure to thank both. The groom should then go on to comment on how good it is to become a part of the bride’s family, and then to return some sort of comment to the father of the bride where he has made comment to the effect that he has passed over the responsibility of looking after his daughter. The groom should say that he will look after his daughter and love her for ever or words to that effect.

4. The groom should thank his own parents for his upbringing and family life.

5. The groom should also thank his best man for his services and it is normal for the couple to buy him a gift and even nicer to have it engraved. The groom might want to get a few words in about the best man at this point, as he is very likely to humiliate him in his speech. Guests will like to see this sort of banter and this will help set the scene well for the best man’s speech.

6. A short story about how the groom met his lovely bride should be told and a thank you to her parents for producing such a lovely daughter will go down well.

7. The groom should close with a toast to the bridesmaids and a nice touch is to thank each of them by name. Traditionally these days it is nice to present the bridesmaids with flowers too.

October 26th, 2008 | Tags: Grooms speech, Wedding Speeches | Category: Grooms speech, How to write a speech, Wedding Speeches | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL