Best Man Speech
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Open with, my speech today will be like a mini-skirt. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to hold your attention!
You’ll need a prop for this one – a heavy stack of cue cards that might be used as memory joggers for your speech. “I caught up with grooms’s mom earlier and she told me that I wasn’t to mention any of the incidents with his ex-girlfriend [pause and put a third of the cue cards on the table], alcohol, [pause and put the second third of the cue cards on the table] or the police…[put the remaining cards down and start to gently whistle to yourself]…well that’s that then!”
I'm interested now.
What do you think of the bride to be? Is she a good fit for your buddy?
My first marriage was to a girl that never really hit it off with my friends. They've since apologized for not saying anything sooner. And I've apologized for letting her get in the way of our friendships. My friends all really like my new wife. She got sign off almost immediately from my best friends wife.
What do you think of the bride to be? Is she a good fit for your buddy?
My first marriage was to a girl that never really hit it off with my friends. They've since apologized for not saying anything sooner. And I've apologized for letting her get in the way of our friendships. My friends all really like my new wife. She got sign off almost immediately from my best friends wife.
When I got married, my brother threw in a bit about taking two metals and blending them into an alloy, improving the properties of both. I thought it was a manly reference that all could understand. That's stuck with me for thirty plus years... feel free to use it.
Just gave a speech for my little brother's wedding two weeks ago, and my older brother's wedding two years ago. The basic recipe is:
1) thank the bride's parents
2) compliment the bride on how beautiful she is (or if she'll be your sister in-law, how happy you are to have her in the family)
3) make a few jokes at the groom's expense
4) give a feel-good toast
In the case of my older brother's wedding, he (an ISU alumni but hawkeye fan) and his wife (who comes from the most Hawkeye-crazy family I've seen that doesn't have a UofI degree among them) made me and the rest of the groomsmen wear black tuxes with hawkeye gold vests/ties/pocket handkerchief. Because of that, I told my top 5 favorite hawkeye jokes during my speech, and I also stuck a cardinal handkerchief in with my gold one. Most of the audience thought the jokes were funny. The rest were mad that the jokes were funny because they were true. At least my speech was better than the bride's mom, who spoke for 5 minutes about how much she wants grandkids and was worried the bride would never have any. Wow...
1) thank the bride's parents
2) compliment the bride on how beautiful she is (or if she'll be your sister in-law, how happy you are to have her in the family)
3) make a few jokes at the groom's expense
4) give a feel-good toast
In the case of my older brother's wedding, he (an ISU alumni but hawkeye fan) and his wife (who comes from the most Hawkeye-crazy family I've seen that doesn't have a UofI degree among them) made me and the rest of the groomsmen wear black tuxes with hawkeye gold vests/ties/pocket handkerchief. Because of that, I told my top 5 favorite hawkeye jokes during my speech, and I also stuck a cardinal handkerchief in with my gold one. Most of the audience thought the jokes were funny. The rest were mad that the jokes were funny because they were true. At least my speech was better than the bride's mom, who spoke for 5 minutes about how much she wants grandkids and was worried the bride would never have any. Wow...
Another tip-- bring a backup notecard. I had jotted down my thoughts into a little outline. Someone (I presume another groomsmen) thought it would be funny to swipe my outline out of my tux pocket. Little did they know I am just OCD enough to have put a back-up in my wife's purse.
Agree with everyone who has said the MOH speech is usually a trainwreck. I've never heard a good one, and they all end up crying.
At my brother's wedding, I made sure to give a toast to everyone there (thanks for coming, you're all very important to the bride and groom, etc), gave a short story about my brother and segued that into how my brother and bride are right for one another.
Above all, keep it short. This was doubly important for me, as I needed to get back to the Big 12 basketball tourney game against KU that was playing that evening.
At my brother's wedding, I made sure to give a toast to everyone there (thanks for coming, you're all very important to the bride and groom, etc), gave a short story about my brother and segued that into how my brother and bride are right for one another.
Above all, keep it short. This was doubly important for me, as I needed to get back to the Big 12 basketball tourney game against KU that was playing that evening.
Went to a wedding where the best man told so many sexcapade stories about the groom that the bride ran out in tears.
Also went to husband's cousin's wedding when some of my kids were lower grade school age and both the best man and maid of honor speeches were totally inappropriate for kids that age.
I don't recommend that path.
Also went to husband's cousin's wedding when some of my kids were lower grade school age and both the best man and maid of honor speeches were totally inappropriate for kids that age.
I don't recommend that path.
"Remember that time in Puerto Rico we picked up those two uh...I guess they were prostitutes, but I don't remember payin'"
Don't cuss. I remember a very intoxicated best man dropping an F bomb and you could have heard a pin drop in that place. One of the more uncomfortable moments in my life.
I think that the main part of the speech anyway should belong to a groom. My cousin did the right thing: he wrote his speech, and gave the last word to his best man (After all I found out he was doing his homework to make it with at least one blog, https://www.poptop.uk.com/blog/groom-speech-getting-it-right/). Everyone in the hall was just impressed by the way he spoke to his wife.
Best speech I have heard was the Best Man saying,
“The Best Man’s Speech should last no longer than the amount of time that Lovemaking takes for the new Groom. Therefore, raise your glass and join me in a toast to the Bridal Couple. Thank you.”
“The Best Man’s Speech should last no longer than the amount of time that Lovemaking takes for the new Groom. Therefore, raise your glass and join me in a toast to the Bridal Couple. Thank you.”
