It sometimes appears as though all weddings are the same and so all the speeches should be similar. Certainly there is a format for such occasions but, having said that, every wedding is different in some respects. It may be that the best man is a woman friend of the groom. It may be that the bride’s father is dead and her uncle is giving her away instead. So our range of off the shelf weddings speeches kept expanding to meet the various demands and, of course, there was a growing demand for customised wedding speeches. There was the father, for instance, whose son was marrying in India where the wedding traditions were totally different to those in his native Canada. The wedding ceremonies were to last a week and the bride was to travel by elephant. Obviously a standard ready to go speech would not have met his requirements and so we had to read up about the ceremonies and write accordingly. The love and the pride of the parents though are the same worldwide and our speech had to reflect this. It did show us though that there was a market for ready to go speeches which reflected all the cultural riches which each one of the couple brings to such a mixed race marriage. As long as couples fall in love and marry there will be a need for speeches which reflect their feelings on their big day.

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