Groom Speech

Since the purpose of the groom’s speech is to thank everyone involved in the wedding, it is relatively straightforward and you just need to make sure to mention everyone who should be. Remember that unless your wife is speaking too, the majority of your speech should be on behalf of both of you.

The basic structure of the groom’s speech is set out below, but as long as you thank everyone who needs to be thanked you can play with the structure to suit:

• Thank the bride’s father
• Thank the guests for coming and for the gifts
• Thank both sets of parents and present the mothers with a small gift
• Compliment your wife
• Thank the best man
• Toast the bridesmaids

Your first step therefore is to start getting down some ideas on paper based on the themes above, and if there is anything else that comes to mind, write it down and fit it into the final structure at a later stage.

You probably don’t need to generate as many ideas as the Best Man or Father of the Bride, so just spend a few minutes making notes about each of the topics for you to flesh out later. The main things to think about are anything specific that your in-laws have done for you that you’d like to mention, and what you want to say about your wife.

Since your speech only needs to be a few minutes – and in fact can be as brief as you like – you don’t need to think up much content as most of your time will be taken up thanking people as well as waiting for applause or laughter to die down. Once you’ve got a few notes down you’ve completed the first stage.

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