Best Man Wedding Speeches

Best Man's Wedding Speech Your best man wedding speech is an honor indeed! It shows you how much confidence your best friend has in you and thinks you’re trustworthy enough for the responsibilities of best man. Don’t worry about the formal format -- Just be yourself!

If you’ve never delivered a speech you could be sweating buckets but best man wedding speeches are not that hard to write or deliver – just imagine telling a funny story to a friend. Especial if you think about what it means to the groom, your best friend -- then writing your best man speech is easy.

Preparing your speech a week or two in advance will make it easier for you to deliver it at the wedding. It could contain humor, jokes, toasts to the maid of honor, the parents of the bride and groom and of course, toasts to the bride and groom.

The very first thing you want to do is introduce yourself -- for those who don’t know you and to make sure all the pretty girls know who you are. Second, touch lightly on the relationship you have with the groom.

A first-rate best man wedding speech will cover brief stories about how the groom was before he met his fiancée, their courtship, and any amusing anecdotes that come to mind. What the grooms wedding means to you and the type of life you wish them to have.

Make a list of the subjects you want to mention and gather the information from:

Background on the bride. You can get this from the maid of honor or the bride’s parents and friends.
The dates the couple have been on, how long they been dating, and how long they’ve know each other.
What they want from their marriage

A sensitive best man will steer clear of ex-girl friends, the rowdy parts of the bachelor party, inside jokes and inappropriate jokes or comments. The key is to allude to the dirty and debauched past without embarrassing the groom, the bride or yourself. Remember, weddings are rated “PG”.

A excellent best man wedding speech will contain amusing anecdotes, a brief history of the couple, good taste jokes, toasts to the bride’s maids, thanks to the parents of both parties, toasts to the bride and groom and best wishes for a happy marriage.

Here’s a list of the order of content all first-class best man speeches should have:

Introduce yourself
Thank the groom for choosing you as best man and being a good friend
Thank the parents of the bride and all attending
Thank the parents of the groom
Insert amusing story about the groom -- referencing stages of his life
What impact the bride has had on the groom
Commenting on the beauty of the maid of honor and bride’s maid
The Final toast to the bride and groom

Practice your wedding speech in front of a mirror and to anyone that will listen to it. The more you practice the better it will be.

Remember – Practice makes perfect! And as the best man you would definitely want your best man wedding speech to be perfect.