Wedding Speeches
If you are asked to make a speech at a wedding you should consider it an
honour and take it as your duty to enhance the wedding day by preparing properly.
Never try and attempt to give a wedding speech without preparing, it is obvious
if you do this and the results can be quite embarassing. You will also be so
nervous about giving the speech that you won't be able to enjoy the wedding day at all.
Do not read your wedding speech, have cue cards which remind you of what to say and in what
order to say it, but if you read it, it will lack any kind of personal feeling or delivery,
and at a wedding personal feeling and emotion are very important.
Preparing a wedding speech means writing it in full, reducing it down to cue cards
and practicing it using the cue cards many times before the wedding day.
There are subjects and themes which are appropriate at a wedding and others which are not.
In general, speak about the bride as if she is a princess. If you are the best man you can infer
that she is too good for the groom, if you are the brides father this may upset
half of the wedding party.
The most difficult speech to give at a wedding is probably the best man's speech.
Many of the wedding guests have great expectations, and the best man can feel pressure to deliver.
There is no point writing a draft speech in this article because the speech should be personal.
But in your eagerness to deliver bare in mind a few simple rules.
Weddings are formal occasions
so stories in the kind of detail that goes down well at the pub with mates will be embarassing
at a wedding.
Mention a few embarassing moments from their former years without
too much detail and avoid sexual transgressions.
On her wedding day the bride is a princess, compliment her - make him look undeserving
and you cannot go wrong.
Ideas for themes for a best man's wedding speech could include. How he has improved since he met
his wife, different phases of his life passing the task of documenting the next one to his
unfortunate wife, 5 things he doesn't want his wedding guests to know including number 5 how much he loves
her.
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