Bride doing a speech?

Oh crap, mine is longer, I didn't notice a limit! Maybe it differs by area as our paper work doesn't say there is a limit! Maybe ring them and ask how strict it is, lets be honest they are not going to cut you off mid way as I doubt they will be counting. I am doing a small speech, my Dad is no longer with us so I will be doing a small one about the men who have been like fathers to me as he passed when I was 10, and I also want to talk about my H2B and his role as a father to his daughter and how we are becoming a family, but also to express things to him I cant do in the vows due to time. I have been to as few weddings where brides have done speeches, and I think it is really nice, why should the men be the only ones to speak, especially when 95% of the wedding has probably been organized by the Bride! It is an old school mentality about the speeches and I am all for the Bride having her say, so absolutely I think you should go for it, is your wedding, so you do it your way X

Give it at your wedding breakfast. It may not be 'traditional' for brides to give speeches, but that's because 'traditionally', the bride was a piece of property who got handed from father to husband at the wedding.