Wedding Speeches: Preparing the Perfect Words

Wedding speeches should be humorous and heartwarming. Unfortunately, many people who deliver speeches do not prepare for their speech. So, often they’d end up stuttering or spouting inappropriate clichés.

Types of Wedding Speeches

There are basically three kinds of wedding speeches – the father-of-the-bride speech, the bridegroom speech and the best man’s speech. Often, it is the bride’s father who’d kicked off that portion of the wedding. The host or the toastmaster would call on the father. If you’re the father, you are expected to deliver a funny and warm speech. You’re supposed to extend your warm wishes to the newlyweds. It’s nice to inject in a little humor to your speech, but avoid nasty comments against your son-in-law. Putting down the groom would ruin the whole occasion. Avoid crude jokes and especially avoid taking the opportunity to talk about yourself.

After the father has finished his speech, the groom would then deliver his own speech. If you’re the groom, this is the perfect opportunity for you to extend your gratitude towards your parents. Also, it is a good idea to take your time to extend a word to your bride’s parents. Extend your gratitude to all to the guests as well. The gist of this speech is to give thanks to everyone attending the occasion. You can finish your speech with a few words to your new wife.

The famous of all wedding speeches is the best man’s speech. This is the portion of the occasion where you’d literally see people cringing and ducking for cover to snicker when a not-too loquacious best man delivers his speech. Best man speeches require warmth and humor. This is not the time to reminisce about your time in Mexico with the groom and how much fun he had with the ladies. Humor should be lighthearted and heartwarming and yes, very, very entertaining.

Giving Funny Wedding Speeches

Getting asked to give a wedding speech is an honor. On a day where all eyes are supposed to be on the bride and groom, you’re given the honor to stand up in front of everyone and express your thoughts about the couple and their future. This is not easy especially for the faint hearted and for those who do not exactly have the gift of gab. This is especially hard for people whose punch lines always fall short since wedding speeches are almost always expected to be funny. However, if you prepare your speech ahead of time and practice, perhaps you might just have the crowd rolling with laughter.

“But I don’t know how to write speeches, let alone a wedding speech!”

True, you may not necessarily have the wedding speech muse with you. However, you always have the Internet. There are a lot of websites that offer free and paid wedding speeches. These are speeches that are not too cliché, not too corny – just perfect! You could use the same speech or you could tweak a few paragraphs or sentences to suit your own story and thoughts. After you’ve prepared your speech, you can then focus on the art of delivering great speeches. But this is another article.