Best Man Speech – 3

"Good Morning Friends – How you all are doing?

I warmly welcome you all to the speech ceremony of today! The topic for today’s speech is the Best Man Speech. Friends, at some point or the other one of your very good friends or may be your brother will perhaps ask you to be the best man on his wedding day. This is a matter of great honor. But do you even know how you would be handling such a situation? Well, one of the responsibilities of a best man is to deliver a speech wherein you speak a few nice words in the admiration of your friend/brother and his newly wedded wife.

If you have been a part of several weddings then you would know that many times best man speeches can very easily devolve into an embarrassing display of emotions. It’s the inadequate preparation and the combination of booze that lead to the best man stuttering and sharing embarrassing and irrelevant stories about the groom in front of a huge gathering of family and friends. So if you don’t want to become an object of laughter in front of your audience and you truly want to portray yourself as the best man, then here are some pointers to be kept in mind as you prepare yourself to deliver the speech:

    Prepare

Don’t simply enter into the wedding function thinking you will be able to say what needs to be said. If you have enough time before the wedding, say a week or so then start gathering a few ideas for the speech preparation. Do your brainstorming, pen down your thoughts, jokes, stories or even quotes to make your speech sound even more interesting. In case, you don’t know much about how your best friend and his wife met, you can ask them. Try to wield a story from the past in order to show how great your friend and for that matter friendship is! The aim of your speech is to celebrate the coming together of this couple and showing them in a good light.

    Stay normal

Surely, you would want to enjoy yourself, but alcohol could make you go over the board while giving the speech in front of so many people. On the other hand, you are not even expected to be completely inhibited. Stay normal and speak only what you rationally feel should be said in front of so many people so that it remains as a wonderful memory and not a regretful one!

And most importantly when you open up don’t forget to express your gratitude towards the groom, his family and the bride as well. Avoid running into controversies and don’t try to sound humorous if it doesn’t come naturally to you. Also, keep your speech short and simple. You can make your speech personal and say things which directly spring forth from your heart so that it remains special not only for you, but for your best buddy as well. This is all I have to say.

Thank you so much!
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