Gloria Bond is a wedding planner and holds speech writing seminars to help people create the perfect speech for all occasions and overcome the fear of public speaking. Gloria is the editor of ceremonyspeech.com
"Its your turn, the master of ceremonies gives you the nod and announces that it is time for the best man speech!, you arise nervously from your chair, clear you throat and think to yourself... "I hope this goes well"
Making a best man speech can be a stressful process, its one of the pivotal events of the night and all eyes and ears will be turned and tuned toward you.
Putting together a wedding speech of any type is not an easy process. Getting the right blend of humor, emotion and wit just right is a daunting task. Get it wrong (as many do) and people will be cringing to themselves for years to come... "remember when so and so made that awful best man speech!". However get it right and you will be the envy of your friends and admired by all the attendees at the wedding ceremony.
Here are a few quick tips to ensure your best man wedding speech is a success
- If you nervous don't make it too long, in fact don't make it too long period, you don't want a bored, yawning audience waiting for you to get off.
- Having said that don't make it too short, try not to make a "blink and you will miss it" speech.
- Include humor, its a great ice breaker, most people will be wanting you to do well and will gladly help you out by laughing, this breaks the tension and you will settle into your task quickly.
- Don't be crude, as funny as it may be to your male friends, the audience (and the brides family for that matter) DO NOT want to know the details of drinking exploits or ex-girlfriends.
- Take your time speak clearly, don't rush and mumble.
- Smile, don't take it so seriously, if you stumble on your words, just smile and laugh it off, the audience will laugh with you, not at you.
Writing a speech is a daunting task, maybe you should consider getting a professionally written one for the day so you don't let the wedding party down. Speech writing guides contain many different and quality examples which can be edited and combined to form a fantastic unique speech. They are available for extremely cheap prices via digital download, best of all even if its the night before the wedding, you can have the guide downloaded and your best man wedding speech up and running in 20 minutes, allowing you to get a good nights sleep and enjoy the next day, safe in the knowledge that your speech is destined to be received warmly.
I personally have put together a wedding ceremony guide for making the perfect best man wedding speech you can take a look at it here The best Man Speech.
Hoping you have a wonderful day!
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