Funny Grooms Speeches - Laugh, They Almost Did!

According to most professional speech writers, wedding guests are one of the most difficult audiences to write for. This is because the composition of the audience is so extremely diverse. The guests are of different ages and genders and can have many different religious beliefs. Additionally some guests will be sober or relatively so, while some other guests may not be.

The audience is also made up of many different social groups from both the bride's side and the groom's side. There are immediate family, distant family, close personal friends, acquaintances, work colleagues, and neighbors.

In addition there are the partners of the invited guests that are attending, who may not be known to the bride and groom at all. This huge diversity makes it nigh on impossible to work out where the boundaries lay as to what you can and cannot say so as to keep within accepted realms of decency and not to offend people.

To make matters worse, the bringing together of all these different groups of people means that a great many of them will not know many of the other guests. This could make them feel somewhat excluded and could help to reinforce any inhibitions they may have, thus making them less receptive to your humor, or attempts at it.

The grooms speech needs to be both functional and sincere, and with just the right amount of humor. The speech needs to be less serious than the preceding father of the bride’s speech, but not as outright funny as the best man’s speech that follows.

One additional difficulty is trying to work out how to thank so many people without it sounding as though you are reading out aloud from a shopping list. You need to be sincere while at the same time using humor to inject life into what could be an otherwise dull speech. This is a very difficult balance to achieve for an inexperienced writer, and requires a considerable amount of thought, planning, and rehearsing.

I have had the misfortune to attend a few weddings where the clueless groom proceeded quickly and nervously to run through a succession of well worn clichés, before ending with a feeble attempt at humor, which was greeted by an awkward silence from the audience. This is not much fun to watch, and even less so if it is you that is giving the speech.

Where possible try to include a few genuinely funny one-liners. It should be noted however that the longer the joke is the greater the potential exists to screw it up. So try to keep any jokes that you use as short as possible, and keep them simple. You should practice them first to get the delivery down to as near perfection as possible.

Try them out on a few people beforehand and ask for their honest opinion. But don't try them out on too many people or you will find that come your speech everyone will have heard it before and consequently no one will laugh. Obviously your grooms speech should be more than just a succession of one-line jokes, it needs to be far more substantial than that.

To help with your speech you can get books written by professional speech writers, in which you will be able to find many speech and toast examples that you can weave together seamlessly into a quality speech you are proud to give, and which will be well received.

The better books will also contain a section containing tips on how best to personalize the speech to suit your own circumstances, and how best to deliver it to achieve the maximum effect.

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