Speeches at weddings are personal messages from the Bride, Groom and their closest friends and family. These messages are stories, memories revisited, thankyous, thoughts from the heart and may include a touch of humor.

A good amount of time for each person making a speech is around 5-7 minutes. This gives enough time to get the message across but won't bore the guests with long winded tales.

If there are only 2 speeches at a wedding reception 10 minutes for example per person is fine but if 8 people are speaking the shorter the better.

The Bride and Groom can advise of their preferred speech length time when asking who will be making wedding speeches.

The Master of Ceremonies usually introduces each person making a speech and may add his own little story to each introduction. A fun way to introduce each speaker is to get the DJ to play a fun theme song that reflects their personality as they come up to the microphone.

Preparing your speech at least a week or two before the wedding gives you time to get the speech polished.Hey if you're not prepared.. And you are afraid of public Speaking than it's probably not going to go so well.

But.. If you are prepared or you can confidently talk off the top of your head to a big bunch of people without notes than everything will be as smooth as silk.

A popular order of Wedding Speeches is..

1. Brides Father - Words of Wisdom and Memories Shared
2. Grooms Father - Congratulations Welcomes the Bride to Family
3. Maid of Honor - Heart Felt Stories and Congratulations
4. Best man - Light with a Touch of Humor
5. Best men - Telegrams
6. Bride - Words of Wisdom and Thankyous
7. Groom - "On Behalf of my Wife and I" Thankyous and a touch of humor.

A general idea of what is covered when making the speech is listed above.. but it all comes down to the personality of the person making the speech. Extra speeches by otehr guests can be made with the Bride and Grooms approval also.

Whether you are the Best Man, Bride, Groom, Bridesmaid, Father of Bride or Groom, you can write your own speech or get inspiration from professionally pre-written speeches.

All the best with your Wedding Speech and if you need a little inspiration check out Wedding Speeches 4U Good luck with your speech,