How weddings have changed over the decades! From a handful to 400-500 invited guests; one-two to six-eight wedding ceremony members; a fairly easy wedding car to expensive and enormous wedding cars; three course meals to six course meals; 1 to 3 live bands; simple attire to colorful and flamboyant dresses, suits and attire and off-the-cuff to well-prepared wedding speeches.
While we’re talking about the latter, wedding speeches continue to be an important part of being married and guests do anticipate hearing them, referring to them before, during and indeed after they’ve been delivered.
We are all aware of wedding speeches delivered prior to the meal, through the meal after the meal, yet it’s of the strong opinion that this wedding speeches should be delivered following your meal. I understand that for most wedding ceremony speakers i.e. Father from the Bride Speech, Father of the Groom Speech, Bride Speech, Groom Speech and Bestman Speech (the five main speakers), they will want to hold the wedding speeches prior to meal, to allow them to enjoy their meal (many of them are spending money for it!). However, all is here the invited guests and exactly how many of them (and even the marriage venue staff) would rather the wedding speeches to become delivered following the meal for many reasons, some of which include:
The invited guests are already fed and watered and aren’t playing wedding speeches before eating anything (at least of food, which will be before the meal, though weddings today do provide light snacks upon arrival in the wedding venue)
Food could be cooked and served on the agreed time (introduce the wedding ceremony speeches prior to the meal in addition to their might be a delay of Fifteen minutes to at least one.5 hours, driving living rooms staff crazy attempting to keep food freshly cooked, presentable and edible)
The marriage speeches behave as the transition from the meal on the dancing (broke happening after the meal, everyone is expecting ‘a few words’ to be shared in regards to the Bride & Groom then they know they could get up, move about, take a rest, go for a walk, go to the bar…)
It’s not easy for moms and dads of the Bride & Groom to speak in public places, since most of them may not be used of computer. So, they may, should they so wished, speak ahead of the / their meal.
There should still be some type of formal wedding speech(es) after the meal…
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