Parents' Speech at the Wedding Banquet Dear guests and friends, hello everyone! Today is a good day for my son and daughter-in-law to get married. First of all, on behalf of my family, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and warm welcome to all the guests. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy family, loving husband and wife, treating each other as guests, honoring parents, respecting leaders and uniting colleagues, and making a smooth and prosperous career in the future.

1. The wedding, one of the five rituals of life, is a traditional ceremony, which is equivalent to the legal notarization ceremony of modern weddings. Its significance lies in gaining social recognition and blessing, helping newlyweds adapt to new social roles and requirements, and preparing to assume social responsibilities.

2. All nations and countries have their traditional wedding ceremonies, which is a way to inherit their folk culture and a ceremony of their own cultural education. Wedding is also an important milestone in a person's life and belongs to a kind of life etiquette. The oldest, longest-lasting and most influential weddings in the world are those of Confucianism, Hinduism and Christianity, that is, the weddings of the three major civilizations.

Thirdly, the wedding, together with birth (full moon), adult ceremony and funeral, is called adoption ceremony, that is, a series of ceremonies during a person's growth in the world. Weddings of different nationalities represent the world outlook and outlook on life of different nationalities.

Four, in our country's law, there are not many procedures for citizens to get married. In fact, only the civil affairs department of the local government can register for marriage. However, the influence of the traditional marriage system still exists, and the remnants of six major ceremonies, such as engagement, dowry exchange, welcoming relatives and friends, and holding a formal wedding, are still widespread.

At present, the so-called wedding ceremony popular in China is mainly based on a set of operating procedures introduced by Taiwan Province Wedding Company in 1990s, which is compatible with Chinese and western wedding ceremonies, conforms to the tastes of contemporary young people in China, and carries forward the lively side of traditional weddings to the extreme.

The biggest difference between this wedding template, which has been popular since 1960s and 1990s, and the wedding ceremony in any previous period and any country is that the leader of the wedding has changed from a couple's family to a wedding company, and the very simple wedding ceremony in western-style wedding has become one of the most important links that are expensive, complicated and need long-term preparation.