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re: Wedding Rehearsal dinner advice from other dads
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:24 pm to muttenstein
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:24 pm to muttenstein
Your role is to entertain the guests. Therefore you should get drunk and launch into an extended diatribe about everything that grinds your gears, including but not limited to your future inlaws. It'll be a night no one will ever forget.
Posted on 9/20/26 at 10:36 pm to Shorts Guy
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lot of people don’t do speeches. It’s exceptionally uncomfortable for some and can feel performative if forced. I know it created significant stress at the wedding for my mom who is just not a public speaker. When I wish she could’ve just enjoyed the evening.
Friend of mine was like this, huge introvert and incredible dad and person. Stood up, shook for like 15 seconds, just said “love y’all” and sat down. His daughter yelled “best speech ever” to loosen his nerves. They are good people
Mine was probably 1 minute at the most. Had a few glasses of wine and didn’t expect to get emotional but I did. Thank god my joke landed or at least people pretended to laugh I don’t like speaking like that either
ETA: The biggest thing I forgot to add is the SIL's dad was right before him and gave one of the best toasts I have ever heard
This post was edited on 9/21/26 at 8:51 am
Posted on 9/20/26 at 11:42 pm to muttenstein
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Were you the emcee
You should do this. Who gives a frick what people think. Dominate the room baw.
Posted on 9/20/26 at 11:51 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Nobody is going to remember what you had to say by the end of the weekend…. Unless you frick it up
Very true.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 6:26 am to muttenstein
When my sons were married, so far there’s been two, yes I was the MC and the host. I had a short outline for welcoming everyone then I talked about my son and seem to be daughter-in-law and how they found met each other. I saved most of the big stuff for my toast at the wedding reception.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 7:05 am to muttenstein
“The Nipples on her titties were red as a plum, the skin on her belly was tight as a drum, shook a little bit like strawberry jam, smelled a little funny but good god damn “ as you are looking at the wife and DIL is a good toast that usually breaks the nervousness for the rest of the speakers … good luck 
Posted on 9/21/26 at 7:40 am to muttenstein
Always start your speech with a joke.
The more offensive, the better I say.
The more offensive, the better I say.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 7:40 am to muttenstein
I gave a very brief welcome and thanked people for coming. Then I led a short prayer once everyone had their food.
This post was edited on 9/21/26 at 7:41 am
Posted on 9/21/26 at 7:54 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Too long. 4 minutes is a long time if you aren’t a good speaker and your jokes probably weren’t funny. That’s not a dig, it’s hard to be funny.
The last rehearsal dinner I went to had a parade of groomsmen and bridesmaids and sorority sisters and former little league teammates who all felt like they had life changing advice and anecdotes they had to subject us to. Each one was drunk and rambled on and on. Not funny. Not entertaining. I would have preferred the Hanoi Hilton. Limit the friends speaking to two, and give them each 2 minutes.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:07 am to muttenstein
Does anyone really care? Your job, as always, is just the $.
The best thing you can do is to figure out who wants to speak well in advance, and shut down anyone else opening their yap and embarrassing the bride and groom with a microphone.
The best thing you can do is to figure out who wants to speak well in advance, and shut down anyone else opening their yap and embarrassing the bride and groom with a microphone.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:17 am to muttenstein
I merely ensured guests were seated and tossed out Grace, iirc. Later, gave a brief toast and then let son’s FIL speak for a min.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:19 am to muttenstein
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You are an insufferable bitch. Good luck in your future endeavors
I'm all for short speeches, but maybe throw in a line about the weather.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:25 am to muttenstein
Our son got married in April. Past paying for everything and standing up and thanking everyone for coming, I didn’t do much at all. I let my wife, son, and DIL plan everything.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:28 am to Darth_Vader
This is all I did, too. The groom's father is usually just a stooge standing around and/or making the rounds of the room talking with guests. No one really cares about the groom's father.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:28 am to Darth_Vader
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Our son got married in April. Past paying for everything
Why weren’t your DIL’s parents the ones paying for everything?
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:32 am to Mo Jeaux
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Why weren’t your DIL’s parents the ones paying for everything?
Because he’s wealthy. He’s a repair parts manager AND he doesn’t pay for tire replacements, he just steals them
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:32 am to RedPop4
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No one really cares about the groom's father.
Well as the dad of a daughter who has been married nobody cared about me either and I prefer it that way. My daughter knows I’m awful in that environment She let me sit at the edge of the room and chill. I did give a toast and we did do a father/daughter dance at reception And everyone else walked up to front of the room to give a toast. I stood where I had been sitting with back to the wall
This post was edited on 9/21/26 at 8:34 am
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:34 am to RedPop4
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This is all I did, too. The groom's father is usually just a stooge standing around and/or making the rounds of the room talking with guests. No one really cares about the groom's father.
Yep. This is how I approached my role in our son’s wedding and it turned out very well.
One thing that made everything easy on me is my son and DIL had a “destination” wedding. This facility had everything you’d need for a very nice wedding. We had our own cabins, one venue on the property is where we had the rehearsal dinner, they had a nice chapel for the ceremony, and another venue for the wedding reception afterwards. They made it a really great experience for everyone start to finish.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:35 am to Mo Jeaux
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Why weren’t your DIL’s parents the ones paying for everything?
Is the subject of this thread about the whole wedding or is it about the rehearsal dinner?
Have you ever heard of context clues and how to use them?
Posted on 9/21/26 at 8:36 am to Mushroom1968
I had two daughters so I HAD to speak at both rehearsal and reception according to my wife 
I am now broke but glad that shite is over… nobody cares. Thank everybody for coming , looking forward to her joining your family and the in laws being apart of it as well and turn it over to other speakers … you will be fine
I am now broke but glad that shite is over… nobody cares. Thank everybody for coming , looking forward to her joining your family and the in laws being apart of it as well and turn it over to other speakers … you will be fine 
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