By Best Man Wedding Speech Plan
To be honest I was always fearful of being asked to be someone’s best man. If I knew a friend was getting serious in his relationship I would try and disqualify myself before hand… saying things like “I hope I never have to make a public speech”.
Don’t misunderstand me,back then I would have loved to have that honor but I was just so intimidated by the best man wedding speech . Now of course, making best man wedding speeches holds no fear what so ever, I could do them standing on my head with both arms tied behind my back (I wouldn’t recommend that by the way).
Back then however, after Mike asked me, I avoided thinking about it for as long as possible. I left it for far too long.
My advice to you is to get down to it as soon as possible, planning is key to giving yourself the confidence you need to carry it off with amazing results.
Staring at the bland piece of paper or the computer screen is fearful for most people, even authors hate that blank page but the key is just to start jointing down ideas. Start by just writing down anything that comes into your head, stories, ideas, headings… anything so long as you are putting things down. Once you have something there in front of you, suddenly things are not so bad.
Forget about thoughts of actually standing up, giving your best man wedding speech in front of people at the moment, just concentrate on the ideas. That way you won’t get distracted and intimidated. Making a speech can be nerve-wrecking at the best of times so just put that to one side for the moment.
If you are finding it hard to get your ideas down on paper as I did then I would suggest you take a look at some guides to help you. I found it hard to get started and so I went off and got some help. There are lots around but the guide that I used is here.
At the initial draft of your speech don’t worry about writing jokes or any such detail. Just plan some topics and jot down reminders of any stories that you can write in more detail later.
Just get started, my experience was that that was 40% of the work right there!
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October 24th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Just want to say a big thank you for these valuable wealth of information you’ve provided. You not only saved me the embarrassment of quiting as a best man to my mate’s wedding, i came out outstanding when i delivered the best man speach. Thanks once again.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
There’s a reason why we all avoid speech class as long as possible in high school and college. I myself took it during a summer semester thinking that there would be less people in the class, but I found out it doesn’t matter whether it’s a group of 2 or a group of 50. Speech giving is just petrifying for some of us.
It’s one of those things that everyone dreads, whether it be in front of a group of strangers or a room full of friends. I always envy those that are completely relaxed and comfortable doing it. I think the hardest thing about giving best man wedding speeches is that you’re expected to be humorous and funny. Face it..not everyone can pull that off!
Planning and preparation is definitely the key. If you plan and rehearse your speech it will be a lot more comfortable than trying to continually reflect back on a piece of paper and finding where you were at in your speech.
I’ve seen some really well done best man speeches and also witnessed some “horror shows”, and you’re right…those that are well prepared tend to pull off the task much easier!