Best Man Speech Examples

Dear Hitched, I put in alot of work and research into my speech, and delivered it very well on the day. I got alot of laughs and congratulations. I am confident my speech will help others in the same position. Thanks very much. Massimo D'Alvito

Thank you for the site. Your examples helped me a great deal for my Best Man's speech. Hope you find mine a valuable contribution. Thanks again Paul Wetherhill

I gave this speech on 16th July 2001 at the wedding of my best mate Gary. It seemed to go down well. Contrary to the advice of several of your correspondents, I would definitely recommend getting at least a little bit bladdered before hand. Best Wishes to all at Hitched - Stephen Seaman.

Hitched.co.uk I don't know where to start thanking you.. Your web site has been the biggest help possible. I gave this speech at my best mate's wedding last Sat, 7th July, and it went down a treat. As you can see, a lot of it was borrowed from your pages. To say that I was shitting bricks before hand is an understatement, but once I'd delivered the Queen Mum joke, and everybody started pissing themselves I felt totally at ease. All I can say to anybody who has to give a speech soon is to ENJOY IT. Many thanks Steve Fryer

Hitched Your website was a great help in preparing my best man's speech for my brother's wedding on 30th June 2001 - thanks. The advice and example speeches are a great starting point and prompted further ideas. My speech went down very well and I'm glad to share it with others. Advice - don't be too daunted, preparation and practice are the key - the audience are not there to harangue! Thanks again Garry Dempster

This speech went down extremely well and many guests made a point of saying how much they had enjoyed it. It was the bride and grooms second marriage and both had children from previous marriages attending. The guests ages ranged from 2 to 87. Hitched.co.uk was invaluable. Advice on structuring speeches together with the sample speeches made an initially terrifying task manageable and resulted in a very successful "performance

Thanks to everyone who posted there speech on Hitched. Its an excellent site. Adam Smith

Dear Hitched I'd just like to register my praise for your excellent web-site. It certainly helped me a great deal in the planing of my best mans duties and most importantly the speech. I dipped in and out of a number of the various example speeches on offer to get a good blend and I'm happy to say the results were very well recieved. Which was a relief! I was also able to pass on your web address for a few soon-to-be best men who were desperate for tips on where I got my jokes from! I attach a copy of the transcript of the speech, please feel free to include it or ignore it, what

Wish me luck, I found your site very helpful, thanks

This speech was delivered on June 30th by 2 best men, myself Paul Withnall and Mark Burchett. I found the example speeches very helpful in giving me ideas for both content and format, with a fair amount of preparation and practice we managed to deliver it brilliantly on the day and both of us actually enjoyed it.

I delivered this speech to about 130 people on 30/6/01 and it went down brilliantly. Many thanks to your website for without it, I think I would have struggled. Shane Jay

Dear Hitched, I was best man at a friend's wedding in mid-June 2001. The speech went down very well, and I thought I'd submit it to you, seeing as the example speeches on your site were extremely useful in writing my own! My advice to anyone else in the same boat: Try and make it relaxed and conversational, and if you can get a bit of banter going with the audience, so much the better. I found the best approach was to write the speech out and (attempt to) commit it to memory a week or so before - then on the day, just refer to a list of all the main points to keep you on track. That way,

Dear Hitched, I have a speech you may be interested in, that you could place on your speech examples page. As your site was a great place for me to get a start and gained many tips, for which I must thank you. Regards, Andrew Davies

What would I have done without your site? As you will see Ive chopped, pinched and plagarised just about all the speechs on here but the end result was absolutley terrific. The crowd loved it, the giggles were there and by the end I felt like a king as I got a standing ovation. The only line I wish I had left out was the queen mother one, purley because afterwards everbody said they had heard it before. Aside from that it went great. Thanks again, Andy Fox

Dear Hitched This is the speech I gave at my brothers wedding in June, 2001. It was a real hit. The whole thing took about 10 minutes to deliver, and afterwards a couple of lads even asked for tips! Thanks to your site and all those whose speeches I raided to make mine such a success. Chris F

Dear Hitched, I found your site really helpful in preparation of my recent Best Man's Speech (attached), so I thought I'd send it to you in the interest of being community-minded! The audience was half Japanese, half English and I think I hit about the right note.Your site was more helpful than any of the books I have found so far. Keep up the good work and thanks! Dominic Mancini