How weddings have changed on the decades! From your handful to 400-500 invited guests; one-two to six-eight wedding party members; a fairly easy wedding car to expensive and big wedding cars; three course meals to course meals; one-three live bands; simple attire to colorful and flamboyant dresses, suits and attire and off-the-cuff to well-prepared wedding speeches.
Talking about the second, wedding speeches continue to be an important part of being married and guests do enjoy hearing them, referring to them before, during and even after they’ve been delivered.
We know of groom speech delivered before the meal, through the meal and after the meal, however it is of a strong opinion how the wedding speeches must be delivered following the meal. I know that for most bridal party speakers i.e. Father from the Bride Speech, Father of the Groom Speech, Bride Speech, Groom Speech and Bestman Speech (the 5 main speakers), they would choose to possess the wedding speeches before the meal, to allow them to enjoy their meal (a lot of them are paying for it!). However, it’s all about the invited guests and just how many of them (and even wedding ceremony venue staff) would rather the marriage speeches to become delivered after the meal for many reasons, some of which include:
The invited guests have already been fed and watered and aren’t hearing wedding speeches on an empty stomach (at least of food, which will be the case ahead of the meal, though weddings today do provide light snacks upon arrival with the wedding venue)
Food could be cooked and served on the agreed time (introduce the wedding speeches before the meal and their can be quite a delay of Fifteen minutes to 1.5 hours, driving living rooms staff crazy always keeping food freshly cooked, presentable and edible)
The wedding ceremony speeches work as the transition from your meal for the dancing (with nothing happening as soon as the meal, people are expecting ‘a few words’ to become shared about the Bride & Groom then they know they’re able to get out of bed, move about, have a break, take a stroll, visit the bar…)
It can be difficult for fogeys of the Bride & Groom to communicate in public areas, as most of them wouldn’t be used of computer. So, they could, if they so wished, speak ahead of the / their meal.
There should always be some kind of formal speech(es) following the meal…
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