Wedding is an occasion whose traditions go as far back as thousands of years. In this part of the world, customs and traditions for speeches for weddingshave developed. Here are some of them.

Order of the speeches – Traditionally, there are only 3 speeches delivered in the wedding reception – the speech delivered by the father of the bride, the bridegroom’s speech and the best man’s speech. This is the origina arrangement of the speeches and for many years, have remained unchanged. With the addition of newer speeches, however, this arrangement had somewhat changed. Hard and fast rules which used to govern the succession of the speeches have all but vanished and so it is up to the couple to follow the traditional or modern way of arranging the order of the speeches.

The structure of the wedding speeches – While modern changes have affected the succession of delivering the wedding speeches, the structure of each seems to have only changed a bit. The only areas where significant changes can be observed are in the tone and format of the speech. Whereas the bridegroom’s speech used to be highly formal, it has now become a speech where humor is accepted. The best man speech, while it used to be the sole task of one best man, is now allowed to be delivered by two best men and even by a lady best man. Some things never change though. The speech delivered by the father of the bride, for example, still sounds very affectionate towards the bride.