Bride's speech - content?

Agree!!!!

I will be thanking my parents for everything and OHs parents for making me feel like part of the family from day one. Thanking the bridesmaids personally (all of these will be quick as I don't want too much repetition with the grooms/best man speech)

Yes, me too. I am so grateful to my FMIL for being so lovely, and for raising such a boy!

Then most importantly I have a few thank yous lined up for my OH, because I always think it is shame at weddings that noone thanks the groom.

I'm glad you say that. I feel the same. I can tell my OH how I feel about him during our ceremony (we have a 'what I love about you' section) but it will be very nice to informally speak to him, as it were.

I'm quite excited about the prospect actually!!!

Keep it short and sweet. Try to divvy up thank yous between you and OH so that they don't get too repetitive - and try to actually say something meaningful and interesting rather than just "You've been so amazing, thanks so much." Decide between you if you want to propose the toast to the bridesmaids or do a different toast.

I didn't intend to do one, but then OH didn't propose a toast to the bridesmaids in his speech. He had his reasons, and his speech was very sweet, but I thought they couldn't go unnoticed, so I had to ad-lib a quick story about each of them, how we knew each other and what we'd done together, and then do the toast at the end.

I did a speech, but I didn't actually write it and pretty much made it up as I went along. That does mean I can't remember well what I said now!

There were 2 guests who were celebrating birthdays on our wedding day, so I took the opportunity to wish them a happy birthday, give them cards and propose a toast to them.

I said a couple of other personal thank-yous to specific people for their support (ones not mentioned in any of the other speeches)

But I mostly took the opportunity to say some very nice things to my husband!

Nicky x

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That's sweet. That's what I envisage mine being for. My boy and my OH.

First marriage, 10 yrs ago, I did a speech. Bad idea since I was rather drunk. Anyway, I used it to thank family, friends, and my toast was to absent friends, s toast that wouldn't have been fitted in otherwise.

Hi

We did a couple speech but in fact it was me that ended up saying the most , husband did not want to do any speech but he was persuaded by me to do the speech together.

I thanked everyone for coming especially the ones that had to come a distance , gave out the presents to both mom's, both bridesmaids and best man and then wished my new husband a very happy birthday and gave him his present .The best man then did his speech and then we all relaxed and ate our meal .

I know it wasn't "traditional" but i enjoyed doing it this way and it made for a more relaxed atmosphere.For any bride out there Do It Your Way !!!

I want to mention my gran and grandad, as I miss them stacks, and my mum isn't very, well... she's quite a businesslike kind of a person and I miss the warmth and care. I don't want to do it in a maudlin way, but want to pick up on a saying each of them had and turn it in to something a bit funny and relate it to my new marriage. I just really need to feel a connection with them on that day, I think. My Aussie family can't make it so all in all I feel a little sparse on the family front