MAKING THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE'S SPEECH: ETIQUETTE, JOKES, SAMPLE SPEECHES, ONE-LINERS. A paperback book written by John Bowden, published by How To Books Ltd

Essential Stats

• Pages: 64
• Published: Saturday 1st April 2000
• Dimensions: 20cm tall, 13cm wide, 2cm thick
• Weight: 141 grams
• Dewey Decimal Number: 306
• ISBN: 1857035682
• RRP: £5.99
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• Weddings
• Languages
• Marriage
• Public Speaking
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• English
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Reviews

I hate speaking in public but needed to make a speech at my daughter's wedding. It had to be the best I could do. This little book helped me achieve that. It is as short as the speech it recommended I should make. Having read it in a couple of hours I honed in on the elements of a 5-minute address that I felt would suit my style. That left out the hundreds of corny jokes it suggested and I concentrated instead on the excellent dateline and quotation hooks to hold my words together. Having then written down my 700 words and broken them into learnable chunks as suggested, I practiced and practiced until I was word perfect enough to allow myself to adlib just a tiny bit. After the event I was congratulated by more people than I could have imagined. If you need to make a wedding speech that goes down a treat then this small tome is well worth the few quid it costs to buy.

This book was a real life saver when my husband had to write his speech as Father of the Bride.

It's OK. I had a quick read through for a few ideas, jotted down my interpretations, then wrote my speech without referring back to it again. As with many of these kind of books, the advice is often not relevant to your situation and you need to adapt the suggestions to suit. The sample speeches are not that good and they are far too short. As for the "jokes", well, they are a joke in themselves. But anyway, who wants to read out someone else's speech and jokes verbatim at their own daughter's wedding? We're recommended to make our speech 7-10 minutes in length and the samples took only 1-2 minutes to read through. However, it's not an expensive book and even if you get one good idea out of it, that will give you confidence and it's surprising what can flow from your pen once you get going.

Two weeks ago I found this book in a charity bookshop and since our daughter is getting married in 2011 I thought it might be useful and bought it for my husband. He must know it inside out as he is either engrossed in it or it's continually open on his side table. He tells me he already has the punch-line! I can only conclude, having not even looked at it,that it's a must-read for such fathers. A very good purchase I feel.

This book is practical and readable... It's a no-nonsense guide for father's of the brides who aren't accustomed to public speaking.

There are jokes, quotations, sample speeches already written and suggestions of how to perfect public speaking skills.

I bought this for my dad who is v. v. nervous about his speech and he found the book great.

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