How weddings have changed on the decades! Coming from a handful to 400-500 invited guests; one-two to six-eight wedding party members; a straightforward wedding car to expensive and big wedding cars; three course meals in order to six course meals; one to three live bands; simple attire to colorful and flamboyant dresses, suits and attire and off-the-cuff to well-prepared wedding speeches.

These are the second, wedding speeches are still a fundamental part of a marriage and guests do anticipate hearing them, speaking about them before, during and indeed after they’ve been delivered.

We know of wedding speeches delivered before the meal, through the meal after your food, however it’s of a strong opinion how the wedding speeches should be delivered after the meal. I know that for a lot of wedding ceremony speakers i.e. Father in the Bride Speech, Father with the groom speech (the five main speakers), they’d choose to hold the wedding speeches prior to the meal, to allow them to enjoy their meal (a number of them are paying for it!). However, is going on the invited guests and exactly how many of them (and indeed the wedding ceremony venue staff) would rather the wedding ceremony speeches to be delivered after the meal for many reasons, some of which include:

The invited guests have already been fed and watered and aren’t listening to wedding speeches before eating any breakfast (at least of food, which would be prior to the meal, though weddings today do provide light snacks upon arrival at the wedding venue)
Food may be cooked and served in the agreed time (introduce the marriage speeches prior to the meal and their is actually a delay of A quarter-hour to 1.5 hours, driving living rooms staff crazy attempting to keep food freshly cooked, presentable and edible)
The marriage speeches act as the transition from the meal towards the dancing (broke happening as soon as the meal, people are expecting ‘a few words’ to be shared concerning the Bride & Groom and they are fully aware they can get up, move, take a rest, go for a walk, visit the bar…)
It’s not easy for moms and dads of the Bride & Groom to communicate in public areas, since most of them would not be used of it. So, they could, should they so wished, speak prior to / their meal.

There should be some type of formal wedding speech(es) after the meal…

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