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Humorous Father Of The Bride Speeches

Glad to note that you are looking for information on humorous father of the bride speeches. The most memorable moment in your daughters life will be at her wedding. So giving a too humorous father of the bride speech will be remembered forever, so go easy on the humor. After all, your daughter's wedding is not a comedy club or karaoke night at the local pub. You want your speech to honor your daughter on her special day.

It's perfectly acceptable, even etiquette-correct to use humor in your speech as it relaxes the audience not to mention yourself. Remember: a bad joke will not only kill your speech but also the joyful atmosphere of the wedding. Do try to form your humor in a way everyone can relate to or at least understand. Here are a few tips on the type of humor acceptable for wedding speeches.

Humorous Father of the Bride Speeches : Types of acceptable humor

These are the four most popular ways to inject humor in your father of the bride speech:

The humorous anecdote
The "little joke"
The limerick
The one-liner

Humor personalizes your speech and it's easy to deliver. After all, it's about some amusing incident in your daughter's life that you remember fondly. When using humor try not to offend anyone in the room and end your father of the bride speech with a serious heartfelt sentiment.

The humorous anecdote
An anecdote is an amusing short story with a humorous ending. An example would be a trip you took to Disney World and your daughter found it more fun to watch the construction workers instead of taking rides. You never though she would grow out of her tomboy day. What little story you choose to tell gives everyone a look into your daughters life without embarrassing her.

The "little joke"
A couple of funny jokes that are sensible and suit a bride's father's personality could make your father of the bride speech really engaging. The "little joke" doesn't necessarily have to be about the bride and groom or even related to your wedding speech. The joke can be about the bride and groom's profession, their hobbies, how they met, or even where they went to university. You can find hundreds of funny jokes at the library or on the Internet. Once you find one you like personalize it to match the bride and/or groom.

The limerick
A limerick is a light or humorous verse where lines one, two and five must rhyme and lines three and four rhyme with each other. These are not hard and fast "rules" anything close is a limerick. Limericks are easy to create and they can be very creative. Decide whom you want to write about and what you want to say then find words that rhyme with them. Such as:

He thinks he's the smart one around
Honestly, his thinking's not sound
He said that he'd try
To bake a fat pie,
As if we all need that extra pound

Give it a try - you'll enjoy making your own limerick for your daughters wedding.

The one liner
One liners are a dime a dozen. That is, there are literally thousands of one-liner you can user or change to use in your humorous fathers of the bride speech. They come in handy, especially at the beginning of your speech to let everyone relax and set the mood for the rest of the wedding speeches. Some examples are:

A marriage involves the giving and receiving of rings: one for the bride's ring finger and one for the grooms' nose.

Any married man can have his own way as long as he agrees with his wife.

A honeymoon is the vacation a man takes before beginning work under the new boss.

As you can see, there are many ways to inject humor father of the bride speeches. All it takes is a little thought and creativity to come up with the most unique and lightest humor for your daughter's special day.

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Humorous Father Of The Bride Speeches

Humorous Father of the Bride Speeches : Types of acceptable humor