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When your little girl announces that she’s getting married, the two most common emotions are absolute delight that she’s found someone who will make her happy for the rest of her life, and a slowly creeping sense of terror at the thought of having to stand in front of hundreds of people to make your father of the bride speech. However, this doesn’t have to be the panic-ridden situation shown in most movies, as there plenty of sample father of the bride speeches on the internet to help give you inspiration.

Wedding speeches tend to fall into one of two categories; those that make fun of the bride or groom, and those that tell warm stories about either or both of them. Ideally a wedding speech should make use of both styles to get the maximum effect. Most father of the bride speeches fall into the latter category, but this can make it an emotional time for all concerned, so adding a little humor helps to lighten the mood.

This is where a sample father of the bride speech comes in handy, as it can be hard to think of funny one-liners to break up your stories and wishes for the couple. Whilst you would never just use a sample that someone else has written without changing it at all (doing this would mean that you’d be celebrating someone else’s marriage!), they can be a good source of turns of phrase and ideas for how to link the parts of the speech together. Sample father of the bride speeches can also be a good place to find famous quotes to help you say what you want better.

Using a sample father of the bride speech should be seen as an admission of defeat of intellect; that you can’t think of anything original to say yourself. Use it more as a springboard to get your ideas going, and remember that no professional speech writer starts any speech from scratch. Watch President Obama speak on several occasions, and you will see that he re-uses turns of phrase and sentences from other speeches. All you’re doing is the same, but using someone else’s words to help inspire your own.