Best Mans Speech
Best Man’s Speech
A good wedding speech is not an easy thing to achieve.
Even the most confident people have a problem when asked to stand up and make a speech. Really good speeches are rehearsed and prepared well before they are needed. Making a best man’s speech without this preparation could be very embarrassing.
Your responsibility is to deliver the best man’s speech. Remember that this is your main duty; it is not organizing the bachelor party. The best man’s speech is the one expected to entertain the guests and poke fun at the groom. It is regarded as the big speech of the wedding reception. Many people who may not have seen the groom for some time may be looking forward to some recent and amusing stories about the bridal couple.
Remember that if the wedding was like a stage play, you would be one of the main characters. People are attending because a wedding is entertaining. You are an important part of that entertainment and you need to learn your lines. Remember that you have been invited by a close friend to entertain friends or relatives attending one of the most important social events the bridal couple will ever be involved in personally.
The best man’s other duties include:
- Helping to organize the wedding and the reception. Start by making lists and checking that tasks are completed on schedule.
- Assisting and advising the groom by seeing to his appearance. You are the person held responsible for his prompt attendance at the wedding.
- Orchestration of the wedding and reception in tandem with a master of ceremonies – if one is available – or by himself if no master of ceremonies is available.
Make sure the guests are happy and being taken care of properly. Its your best friends wedding after all. This duty also involves keeping an eye on the other members of the bridal party and their helpers.
Best man duties are not for the faint hearted! You have got to be funny, helpful, firm, supportive and sensitive to the needs of the bridal couple. This is a complex task and if you get it right you will be paying your friend the compliment of showing him that you care enough to do right by him.
Making a good best mans speech gets you respect from the audience and makes all your other tasks easier. So your best mans speech should be filled with plenty of the required personal stories and jokes that make such a speech memorable.
Even an experienced speaker would struggle to make such a speech without proper preparation.. To someone who is not used to public speech delivery (never mind the composition and authoring of such an important speech) it is enough to give you the shakes.
If this sounds familiar and you are not intent on a speech making course to craft a best mans speech, we have a new contributor line-up in our review section and they provide great help in the form of about twenty pre-written speeches with advice on delivery.
These are in a very user-friendly format and will give you something to use immediately.
Their book tells you everything you need to know about being agreat Best Man – as well as what’s going to be expected of you, how to quell stage-fright and overactive nerves. The book also provides some bright ideas for a eady made best man’s speech and how to handle any emergency situations that may arise before or during the ceremony..
