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As a parent, watching your little girl grow up from a sweet, innocent toddler to a beautiful young women is a bittersweet thing. While it is wonderful knowing that you have done a good job as a parent, and that she is an incredible woman, you’ll always miss the little girl she was. And on her wedding day, these feelings and a thousand more will be all the more poignant as you watch her walk down the aisle and be married. So how do you express all you need to and more? The perfect time is at the reception, when father of the bride wedding speeches happen.

So what should you say in your speech? A good idea is to spend some time thinking about your relationship with your daughter, and what sorts of things you want her to hear on one of the most important days of her life. This could be any number of things, from how having her in your life has made you a better person, to how happy you are for her, to a funny, heartwarming story about some special moment that you and her shared together. In father of the bride wedding speeches, there isn’t a right and wrong thing to say – the key is to speak from your heart.

If you need a basic outline to get you started, then start out with saying something congratulatory such as “I know every little girl dreams about her wedding day, so today I want to tell my beautiful daughter and her new husband how happy I am that they have joined their lives together.” From there, move on to a cute or funny story about your daughter as a child or young woman, and then talk a little about how wonderful it has been being her father and watching her grow. This is the point at which you’ll want to speak your feelings to your daughter, and tell her how proud you are of her.

To finish, offer the new couple a little bit of advice, and then raise your glass and end your speech. You can close with something funny like “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup. Whenever you’re wrong, admit it.Whenever you’re right, shut up.” For this part, don’t hesitate to borrow cute or funny quotes to end your speech with; the best father of the bride wedding speeches combine heartfelt words with words written by the best writers of our time.