best man speeches

The Best Man's Speech : Your best friend's wedding. And you are to be best man. After thanking him profusely for the honor, you immediately start worrying. How do you safeguard the ring till the big day?

How do you make sure you are suavely-dressed but not better than him? And how do you, and this is the toughest part, ensure your speech goes down as the second most memorable feature of the wedding? (The first? The wedding, of course.)

Okay, first, go grab a couple of tissues - to wipe that sweat - and then, a pad and a pen. Your speech is going to be, well, no sweat. To calm you further, know that you'll be last in line - the ones before you being the traditionally more serious/emotional/sentimental speeches of, first, the bride's father and, then, the groom himself.

So, when your moment arrives, you would have had enough time to brace yourself. The guests too would be a couple of drinks, even bottles, down (after all, it is the time to celebrate) and thus in a lighter mood - to tolerate you, if your speech isn't quite there, or to award you with howls if it's a cracker. Keep from the spirits yourself though! At least until you're done with the speech.

 The high spirits of the audience notwithstanding, you should leave no word, emotion or anecdotes - in short, opportunities to raise the spirits still further - unexplored from your side. Here then are the 10 commandments to remember for your speech. Begin, of course, by congratulating the newly-weds and thanking the groom for choosing you as the best man.

Then, more thank-yous: guests, bridesmaids, flower girls, page boys... yes, it seems like thanking everyone assembled. Time next to read out messages from absentee invitees and even the attendees.

As for the main speech, it's always well to talk about how long and well you've known your friend, throwing in perhaps a few incidents from your association, though none too embarrassing, and winding up with how happy you are for him.

Do bring up the bride (yes, most best man speeches tend to forget her), including perhaps how and when you got to meet her as your friend's to-be and, of course, how happy she's going to be with him. You could also quip about the bachelor party but again nothing too queasy. In your speech, You COULD also joke about his past flames, but know the nature and mood of the bride and the audience and, firstly, note the size of 'could' here. Do keep looking at everyone while speaking, and be and sound happy and cheerful while you're doing so.

And do keep the speech like the wedding vows - short and sweet (if you need a timeline, about 5 minutes). Lastly but actually the first thing to do, PRACTICE, and note the size of 'practice' too. There, you can finally drink via the toast and, while everybody awaits the cutting of the cake, you can also secretly make, for a fait well accompli, a toast to yourself.

 
 

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