Generally, the Bride doesn't make her own Speech. Instead, the groom delivers a speech at the wedding for the bride and himself, beginning with the phrase, "My wife and I." With that said, the bride can make her own speech if she wants to and its not that rare for the bride to do so. Both ways are fine.

If only you - the groom - have decided to make a speech, then when you come to say thank you to all the people concerned with the wedding and the reception. You should be thanking everyone of behalf of both yourself and your wife.

If the bride wants to give her own speech, then it should be determined ahead of time who is going to thank you. It will be a very uncomfortable position for you if some people are thanked two times or if someone is not thanked at all. In the case of the latter, not only will it be very rude and upsetting to the person concerned, it'll also be embarrassing for you.

In my opinion, the groom should thank the best man and any page boys while the bride should thank the maid of honor and any bridesmaids. Still, you both will need to decide who will say thanks to the person who gave the service, the florists, caterers, etc...

As far as thanking the parents is concerned, it is fully acceptable for both the bride and the groom to thank both sets of parents, as it's a very big day for them too. The parents should be made to feel special, which they are.

While the best man's speech is humorous and the father of the bride's speech is a more serious one, the entertainment value of the groom's speech should be in between the two. It should be heartfelt with just a suitable amount of humor. I know, this can be a fine line and the balance can be somewhat difficult to achieve. Which is why the groom's speech is the most difficult of all of the wedding speech to both write down and then deliver.

The most daunting task when writing the speech is to start it. Once you get that stroke of inspiration then its all downhill from there. At this point, when faced with the prospect of staring at a blank paper for hours, grooms turn to the Internet for ideas. But they soon find out that its full of poor quality ideas and its very difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak - especially when you're busy preparing for a wedding!

Fortunately for you, I've tested out many sites out there and the best site I've found is WeddingSpeech4u. It has many professional written wedding speeches for you to model your speech on, Heck, you can even say it almost word-for-word and it'd still amaze your audience.

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