Speeches?

We didn't do any speeches til sometime during or when dinner was almost done. We started off by thanking everyone and then my father in law spoke and then my moh and a groomsman spoke. They only had a minute or less each since they didn't have much to say anyway

My parents are doing a welcome toast at the end of cocktail hour welcoming everyone. They are doing it because they are the host (and paying). They will then direct everyone to dinner. We are calling everything a toast, rather than a speech, so people know to keep them short. Towards the end of dinner, the bestman and MOH will give a toast, then my FH and I will thank everyone for coming. I think us taking the microphone expresses we are done with this portion. We will be doing our first dance right after that as well.

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Hey Melle,

Oh wow!! Interesting! Thank you so much

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I really like your timeline, Alex!! Thank you so much!

1) Whoever is hosting the event typically does the welcome speech.
2.) Give your DJ a list of who is giving speeches and when, that way they can control where the microphone goes.
3.) My wife gave a welcome speech right after our grand entrance and before dinner. The rest of the speeches began at the end of dinner.

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Thank you for these important points!!

1. Whoever you want. My husband and I gave a short welcome speech at our wedding.

2. We talked to my dad, the best man & the maid of honor in advance but they all knew 2-5 minutes was standard. No one else made toasts, we didn't give them the option to.

3. We started ours after people sat down with their entree.

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Thank you so much, Mrs D!

Im not 100% set in stone so Im following to see what other ppl say. But my plan is to have the grand entrance, then first dance, then welcome speech, then toast & blessing of the food & excuse tables for dinner. Speeches will be at the end of dinner right before cake cutting. My MOH, the best man and my SIL will have a speech.



We figured maybe its best to do the toasts at the beginning so ppl dont use their Champagne flutes for drinks for dinner. Im going to ask my sister to do the toast & blessing of the food. Im going to ask if any immediate family members want to give the welcome speech & if no one says they want to then me & FH will. I wonder if the transition from welcome speech to toast will be smooth. Who passes the mic around?

My MOH is talking with everyone who wants to do a speech to let them know to keep it to a minimum or she's gonna cut them off or start music like at the Oscars lol. I'm doing a speech at the rehearsal dinner and we're going to do a speech after dinner but before anyone else's speeches just to thank everyone for coming and so on.