Speeches?

I'm not sure yet. We aren't having a huge wedding, so we'll probably let whoever wants to say something speak. I'm sure at least the best man

FH and I are planning on giving a brief one at rehearsal just to thank everyone and then BM and MOH at the wedding, Unless any of our parents or grandparents feel they need to give a speech then they will do it at rehearsal.

We are doing a speech at the rehearsal dinner as well as FH’s stepdad. At the reception, it will be the typical best man/maid of honor then FH’s stepdad & stepmom are also doing a speech. I don’t have a relationship with my father and my mom/FH’s mom & dad aren’t public speakers lol

Best Man, Maids of Honor, Father of the Bride.

We're skipping them all-together. I've sat through too many long and/or painful speeches during receptions to want to put my friends and family on the spot like that. We're intentionally not mentioning speeches during the rehearsal dinner to anyone either, with the thought that if anyone wants to say anything they can, we're just not going to ask them to.

Right now we're planning on BM, MOH and FH's Brother in Law because he's good at speeches. haha. We figured he could serve kind of as toastmaster. I don't think any of our dads will be giving speeches but we still need to check with them.

We've been discussing this too. We plan to speak to thank everyone for coming and to recognize two people who will be celebrating with us on their birthday. Our sons are our best men but I'm not sure either will feel comfortable doing this. She wants to offer the mic to one of her sisters. I just don't want it to become a free for all and give all 44 guests a platform for an hour.

No one gave any at my RD. It never dawned on me that one was needed/missing. The only form of a speech at my wedding was my dad thanking everyone for coming and thanking my ILs for hosting the rehearsal. That was probably 1 minute long.

I wanted to do open speeches at the RD and then just us and our best man/moh at the wedding. Maybe my dad if he wanted to. But now my fiancé is saying he thinks all his groomsmen and friends will want to say something at the reception and he’s so freaking excited about it. I don’t know how to tell him that won’t work timewise without breaking his heart.

We didn't have any speeches - we had toasts. Much shorter and much more appropriate for a wedding. My FIL gave a short toast at the rehearsal because my in-laws were hosting. At the reception, the MOH, BM, and FOB gave short toasts, and H and I both spoke quickly to introduce our bridal parties and thank everyone for coming. Total speaking at the reception was maybe 10 minutes.

The Best Man did a toast during our welcome/rehearsal dinner. That was it! 😅

I plan on giving a speech to thank our wedding party and family at the rehearsal dinner. My FH does not like to speak in front of people but I don't mind it.

As for the speeches at the wedding...my FH wants one of the groomsman to do a speech but that particular groomsman isn't on my "most trusted" list so that will have to be monitored. Otherwise i'm hoping for someone from my family to say a few word like "raise your glass to the newlyweds" or something to that effect on the day.

If no one wants to speak then I will because again I don't mind and I would like to thank everyone for coming.

Not sure about rehearsal dinner, but we may say a quick thank you at the end. The wedding reception will be MOH and best man.

My dad and the BM. MOH looked terrified when I told her the BM was planning a speech, so we capped it at two.

I hadn't thought of the rehearsal dinner...

We allowed 2, and 2 only. Our bridal party was allowed to tag team MOH/bridesdude and BM/groomsman. But we wanted things short and sweet. We told them 3-5 minutes max.

We're only going to do a toast during the wedding reception. Neither the best man, nor my MOH wants to go up and give speeches lol They're both relatively shy, and I don't want to make them uncomfortable. I don't blame them though, I'm not a public speaker and would be too nervous.