Does wedding quotes make your best man speech special? Absolutely.

But it (using wedding quotes in your best man speech) can break your wedding speech too unless you are not using them rationally. It’s not hard to find loads of wedding quotes by eminent authors and poets as well as anonymous people both online and in books and novels that you find in bookstores. But before you search for wedding quotes you should get your best man speech written first. Because you would want to find wedding quotes that sit fit in your best man speech and not the other way round. I mean you cannot or shouldn’t build your speech around the wedding quotes. Simply consider wedding quotes as one of the materials which you would use to compose the speech. However, you can improvise a bit to include no more than a couple of wedding quotes in your speech. By the way, refrain from using too many quotations as it could transform your speech to somebody else’s best man speech.

Here are a few of my favorite wedding quotes -

Sincere Wedding Quote

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Germaine Greer

Funny Wedding Quote

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married

- Robert Frost

Humorous Wedding Quote

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it’s not so hot. – Anonymous

Famous Wedding Quote

Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.  -William Shakespeare

I have just published a new article on wedding quotes. The article is about why and how you should incorporate brilliant wedding quotes in your best man speech. If you are looking for more on wedding quotes I urge you to go and read it right away. It’s in the article section.

I was wondering the other day what’s the surefire way to make a best man speech instantly successful. After some brainstorming I decided that it depends on certain factors like the length of the speech, the confidence of the speaker, the undertone of the speech and use of different speech materials in the speech. Let’s focus on the best man speech materials that a best man generally uses to write his speech. Wedding jokes, quotations and one liners – they help to make your best man speech captivating and hence as a best man you should want to use them in your speech.

As far as best man speeches, most people expect them to be funny and interesting and almost all the best men out there would want their speeches to be funny too. As a best man you would want to pick the jokes, quotes and one liners that are funny or at least have hints of humor in them. These jokes and one liners are often quotations from famous authors as well as anonymous persons or they could be from traditional literatures of different countries and cultures. You can find lots of wedding related jokes and one liners on the internet and several of them are exclusive to the best man speeches.

Recently we have published an article on best man speech one liners in the main section of BestManSpeechInsight.com. If you are yet to read it I will urge you to read it if you are wondering what type of jokes and one liners you should include in your best man’s speech, why you should even use those materials and how to infuse them in your speech with perfection.

Often the best man ends his best man speech with a wonderful wedding toast. The wedding toast could be a couple of sentences or it could be a poem. But apart from that you can use poems to make your best man speech exceptionally good. When I say using poems in your best man’s wedding speech, I mean using them at the end of your speech to toast the newlyweds or the bridesmaids. You can use one or more poems in your best man speech. But make sure that you use them appropriately. It is not important if it’s your poem or you have collected it from somewhere else. If you are not good at writing poems like me search for the term best man poem on the Internet and it will return with hundreds of results from where you could pick one or two that you think are most suitable.

You may be wondering what’s or when is the best time to use a (or more) poem in your best man speech. l think the best time to recite a best man poem is inside the main body section of your speech just after you have shared a couple of anecdotes or before you say something about the bride. But that’s only an example… I’m just trying to give you some ideas. You can, in fact, recite a poem wherever and whenever you think it fits. Just don’t recite two best man poems back to back. If you are proposing a toast and using a poem to make the toast then you shouldn’t be using more than one poem.

If you are interested, we have just published an article on best man poem. I suggest that you read the article to learn how you can use poems to make your best man speech even more entertaining. You can find the best man poem article in the main section of our site or simply follow the link below -

Best Man Poem