Thank you toast?

I was considering doing a short toast just to thank everyone for coming (and then to repeat the sentiment in Spanish for my side of the family who doesn't speak English). Something like how much it means to us that they're here, since we're having a very small wedding.

Edit: We're paying for the whole thing, so unless FH's parents bring it up, I'm gonna assume no other toasts aside from BM and maybe FH and I.

Hmmm, I think we'll probably do a thank you to our BP at our rehearsal dinner. For the wedding reception, we're just going to have my brother do a "Welcome" Toast. I've never seen a Bride and Groom do a toast at their own wedding, usually the BM/MOH thank the hosts as well in their toasts (if you're having those).

Our parents gave toasts after our 1st dance to us and to say thank you. Then we gave a brief thank you toast before our cake cutting. We said this "We just want to take a minute to thank everyone for being here tonight to celebrate such an amazing day with us. It means the world to us that you are here and we are so excited to be able to start this next chapter in our lives with you. So eat up, drink up and let's celebrate!"

We have a lot of OOT guest so we were going to just say a quick "Thanks so much for coming and please enjoy your night" at the end of our BM/MOH speeches

Okay! That all sounds great.

Question - if you do decide to do one, will you or FH talk?

FH's Spanish is terrible so it'll be me. If he wants to add in a line or two before/after me I'm cool with that. He enjoys being in the spotlight and I don't so probably both of us will speak.

We gave thank you toasts at the RD, my parents said a welcome/thank you at the wedding (they were hosting)...we also included a thank you blurb in the programs.

I asked the same thing a few months ago. FH and I are hosting but neither of us like public speaking so we'll probably skip it. We will greet tables so hopefully we can tell everyone individually thanks so much for coming

We are doing one and my FH will be doing it in both English and Spanish...and only because I can't speak in front of a crowd and I will probably be an emotional mess. (in a good way of course)

I thanked everyone for coming and sharing the day with us. I thanked people who had helped out in any way. I thanked my girls for standing beside me. Then DH thanked his guys and told everyone to have a great time and it was time to party

DH did a small thank you toast at the RD and reception. We hosted both, so DH just thanked everyone for their support and for joining us in this celebration.

The way our reception is set up I don't think we will be doing any toasting there. But I am planning on it for our rehearsal dinner, just to thank our parents and our bridal party basically! Not a huge deal.

At my wedding we had a few people give speeches (one of the bridesmaids, the best man, the mother of the groom and the father of the bride). After they all went, my husband and I stood up and said thanks to everyone for coming and thanks to those who traveled to be there. I also gave and extra thank you to my mom because I wanted to do something special for her. I cried... she cried... it was a moment. lol

You don't have to say much, but I think it's important and really nice if you and your husband stand up and say a general thanks to everyone for coming out.

EDIT: My dad paid for much of the wedding, so I guess he was the host, but his speech was from the view of the father of the bride and not the host. I don't think parents aka, the hosts, should give that thank you. It should be the bride and groom.

The host(s) should give it. My dad did ours, just a brief (like less than 1 minute) hello, thank you for coming, time to party! Haha

I'm going to talk to FH about this. I would like him to give a quick thank you toast to all the guests for coming and all of our parents since all of them contributed in some way, shape or form. I want to keep the toasts to a minimum though so people don't get bored. We are also hosting a day after lunch for all the OOT guests as an extra thank you for traveling to be with us on our big day. I definitely want FH to be the one to talk though, I don't care for public speaking.

This is helpful, thank you.

100% yes. Doing one. It always feels so impersonal to me when the couple doesn't do one. Regardless if your parents or whoever is paying/ hosting. In my head, I see the parents being pumped about the wedding and thanking others but the couple couldn't care less. Which is why we are thanking everyone. ...sorry if I seem heated about this. It just really irks me if a couple doesn't do it lol

For us, my FH will give a toast. I don't like speaking in public so skipping it myself. If someone else is hosting it (like your dad) he toasts. You (the couple) are still more than welcome to do a thank you toast as well. The last dad toast we heard had him first say somethings about his daughter, then about meeting the FSIL, then a funny story between them all, and ended with thanking the guests for being there.

We will be doing a thank you. Short and sweet ... Gotta figure out when!

We are going to FH hates public speaking so I will do it just to say thank you to everyone for being there with us