How Long Should My Mother Of The Bride Speech Last?

 

As a professional wedding speech writer, I have discovered this needless obsession with the length or duration of mother of the bride speeches. From working with hundreds of mother of the bride on their speeches, I can tell you that how long or short your speech should be doesn’t really matter.

 

If you are not certain about this, let’s look at these videos of varying lengths and duration. First, let’s consider this first video:

 

 

How long did that last? 3:45 minutes, right? Was it a fun and exciting speech for a daughter? You bet!

 

Now, let’s look at this second video.

 

 

 

It lasted for 7:30 minutes, right? I found this particularly touching and emotional.

 

Now, let me ask you this simple question: Do you still believe in the widely-held assertion that your mother of the bride speech examples should be 5 minutes or less?  Those who hold that video may be right but those videos prove otherwise.

 

Here’s my personal take on that question based on my professional experience and the contents of both clips. The length of your mother of the bride speech doesn’t really matter. What matters most is the story you tell, how it is told, and how fun and exciting your mother of the bride speech is.

 

That being said, a few factors will ultimately determine the length of your mother of your bride speech. I have outlined them below:

 

First, your daughter may ask you to keep it short due to obvious reasons.

 

Second, if you are not time-bound, just go with your gut feeling. But make sure it’s not too long like the biography of a famous person else you will bore the audience to death. You don’t want that to happen. Do you?

 

Third, find about the exact number of speakers at the wedding reception or bridal shower and adjust your content according. Just keep it short if there’s a long line of speakers. You can smile and deliver your speech your own way if you are the only speaker. But, don’t be carried away by that. Your family and friends have given you their time and attention and you just have to put in the work to write and deliver a fun and heartfelt mother of the bride speech that will make your daughter feel so proud.

 

So, how long or short do you want your mother of the bride speech to be? Please decide on that and come up with good content. One more thing before I wrap up. Your speech should be short or long enough to cover what you really want to say about your daughter.

 

If after writing your speech, you find the length to be a bit too long, you can condense it by picking out one or two stories and just go with them.