The Evolution of Wedding Fairs Once upon a time, wedding showcases or fairs were rare events, reserved for special occasions. However, in today’s wedding landscape, they’ve become a ubiquitous fixture, with at least one happening every weekend in wedding hotels throughout the year. A Comprehensive Showcase of Wedding Services Wedding showcase events aren’t just about […]
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Traditionally, the wedding speeches were delivered after all the guests had had their starters, main course, dessert and tea/coffee. The people had been ‘fed and watered’ so to say, and were ready to sit back and hear all about the bride and groom i.e., their growing up years, how they met and why they were
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Don’t leave it too late to write your wedding speech, as the old saying says, ‘You won’t feel it until it’ll be up on top of you!’. Nothing could be more truer than this statement when it comes to a wedding. We feel it’s years away; then it’s months away; then it’s weeks away and
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Traditionally, the Father of the Groom Wedding Speech is delivered by the Father of the Groom after the Father of the Bride Wedding Speech i.e., they are second to speak. A ‘Father of the Groom Speech’ can also be delivered by the Mother of the Groom or a brother or sister of the Groom. Many
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In the Oxford English Dictionary, the word ‘Toast’ is described as a ’’…call to a gathering of people to raise their glasses and drink together in honour of a person or thing, or an instance of drinking in this way…’’. At an Irish Wedding, there are many opportunities to Toast people during the following Wedding
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It is all very well writing a great wedding speech that covers everybody and everything; however, when it comes to delivering your wedding speech, it is completely a different challenge. The delivery of your wedding speech is what will make it a great wedding speech or an ordinary wedding speech. As you practice and prepare
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Click on the link below to hear the complete interview this morning (Saturday, 24th July 2012) on 98FM (Dublin Radio Station) on The Big Breakfast with Ger Colleran (Great Speech) & Rachael Ryan (98FM Radio Host)… https://www.98fm.com/podcasts/98fms-saturday-social/irish-wedding-speech-coach-reveals-exactly-how-long-a-wedding-toast-should-be?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web
Whether you are a Father of the Bride, Mother of the Bride, Father of the Groom, Mother of the Groom, Bride, Groom, Bestman, Bridesmaid and/ or Groomsman, you should really put in the effort and practice to write and deliver a great and memorable wedding speech. You want to know the reasons why? Well, here
When it happens to you i.e., that you have to deliver a wedding speech, your first thoughts are, ‘Well, who do I mention and what do I have to say? After some thought, these ‘should’ come naturally to you, remembering that it is all about the Bride & Groom. However, what else can you say
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Over the centuries and decades it was not a common thing for a Bride to speak at their wedding. Whatever they wanted to say or would have liked to say was always covered by their Groom (through a Groom’s Wedding Speech) or their Father (a Father of the Bride Wedding Speech) or their Mother (a