Best Man Speeches

What are the duties of a best man other than the speech?

Best man has a very important role to play in the wedding. They are not only there to give a speech, thank the concerned people and get out of it. Most of the times best men are those people who are very close to the groom like their best friends or brothers. It is said that the best man should be a bachelor. The best man is expected to do many things like keeping the rings till the times comes for the bride and groom to exchange rings. He is also supposed to make sure that the groom does not see the bride coming and to draw attention of the guest sand relatives when the couple enters the dining hall where all of them are supposed to have the wedding meal. Out of all these the major role that he has to play is to give a speech, which makes people jittery about taking up this role because one has to address la the guest who come to the wedding. But I am sure after reading this article this is going to be far easier since I would provide you some easy tips for a wedding speech.

Tips and ideas for a good wedding speech

• It is important to know the subjects that you have to speak on so that you can plan it properly. Talk to the groom and ask him if there is anybody special whom he wants to thank and incorporate such things into the speech. So you must first decide what you want to say and how you want to say it- funny, conservative or even nervous.
• Since the wedding is the focal point you can mention how long the couple have known each other and being the groom’s friend do mention the good things that have happened in the groom’s life after meeting the bride. You can make the speech funny by mentioning how he has forgotten his friends or the like.
• You can mention the negative and positive points of the groom and the reasons that you feel he would become a good husband.
• Thank the groom and bride’s parents and share some experiences that you had with them, it can be either funny or sentimental.
• Thank the guests for coming and sharing the happiness of the bride and the groom.
• Do not speak like a parrot that has mugged it up and try to give some personal touches to it.
• At the end request everybody to bless the couple and raise a toast.

This should be the flow of the Best man speech. Try to relax and don’t be nervous. Do not try to learn the speech by heart, just take down the pointers on a note card so that there is no break in the flow of the article. Pay equal attention to the bride and the groom since both of them choose you for the role of the Best Man. And the bottom line is having oodles of fun!!