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Best Man Speech Examples

The best man speech is usually the most eagerly awaited of all the wedding speeches. Traditionally the best man speech comes last and you’ll want to pack it with jokes, embarrassing stories about the groom and some lovely words for the wedding party. We’ve got a huge selection of real best man speeches to use as examples and loads of ideas and advice articles too!

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Speech by Sean Moyles
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Thanks for all of the assistance in putting this speech together - this site was immensely helpful. Please feel free to pass this one on to your users - I hope that they will find it useful. It got a few laughs, most of which were intentional. Additionally, the Maid of Honor (Kelly) took care of all the "Thank Yous" for the both of us during her interlude. Enjoy!
Speech by Chris Buxton
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Hitched Thanks for the service, It was very comforting to see the overall expected content of a speech. I hope my speech will help some sorry sod as others helped me. Good luck Chris
Speech by Mark Scheffers
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Hitched, I got most of my speech from you.You are A LIFESAVER thankyou!! Everyone laugh there butts off. I made it short but people are still talking about how I roasted Shane ( in a good way) Thanks again Mark Scheffers
Speech by Dave Chambers
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Hitched, Firstly may I thank you for giving me the inspiration and ideas for making a best mans speech at my best friends wedding on 14th April 2001. Please find my speech enclosed. If you think it's good enough for inclusion on your site that would be great and if somebody else can use it to help them - then even better! Regards, Dave Chambers.
Speech by David Charlton
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Hitched, Hope this is a help to someone, Kind Regards David Charlton
Speech by Nicholas Bettaccini
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Please find attached the Best Mans speech that was use for the wedding of Rosie & Lee on 14 th April 2001. Hitched helped me greatly with my speech preparation, so I hope my speech will help others. Thanks Nick
Speech by Tim Stewart
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Speech by David Charlton
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Dear Hitched, You are amazing!!!! I must have spent 5 hours on your site in preparation for my speech. I picked the jokes that I found funniest and put them together in my speech. One main objective that I wanted to achieve was to have minimum embarrassment for the groom, as he is my best friend, no swearing or references to sex. Basically a clean funny, and genuine speech. I had some sentimental things to say, which I felt was important to balance the speech. I was surprised at the success. The wedding organiser scored my speech a 9/10. Everyone was shaking my hand and saying i
Speech by Jon
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Hi Guys I found your website a real godsend in planning my speech. The speech attached looks short, but took about 5 minutes to deliver. I found it helpful to have the text at hand, rather than using prompt cards - if you totally dry up it's useful to have some written words at hand. Luckily I didn't dry and only had to look at the text a couple of times. Also, I deviated from the speech as written, things just come to you when you're delivering it. Jon
Speech by Sean Driskel
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I have to say, I was intimidated by the Best Man speech, until I found your site, and followed the VERY helpful advice here (including a swiped joke). With my compliments, please find attached the speech I wrote based on your sites info. My friends Marty and Ruby are happily married and living in Ohio. Thanks again for the help!
Speech by Steve
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Dear Hitched, This is the text of a speech I wrote using some of your resources. It went off beautifully and I hope that it can be helpful to others. Kind regards Steve
Speech by Tim Del Strother
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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" Tim del Strother
Speech by John Wilkinson
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Dear Hitched: My friend Neil is British and he married a Japanese woman, Takako, here in San Francisco. Neil had two best men - both of us named John, both Americans, and we both delivered a speech. Attached is my speech. I delivered it very slow - with a straight face - and it seemed to be very well received. Good luck to all best men! John.
Speech by Martin Burke
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Here is my speech which I gave just before Christmas. Although I was nervous, I remembered the advice from your site which helped me enormously. The speech got lots of laughs, and even a round of applause half way through. Many people commented on it being just the right length - approx 8 minutes. I think the key to the speech was memorising it - this gave me the confidence to concentrate on the timing of the jokes - otherwise it can sound like you're reading something from a cracker.! all the best
Speech by Geoff Eaton
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I gave the attached speech last Saturday and your web site was a great help during the preparation. I was quite nervous beforehand but fine as soon as I got up there. The important thing to remember is that everyone wants you to do well, including the audience. The speech went down very well and received a lot of laughs, applause and congratulations afterwards.
Speech by Nigel Bettridge
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Dear Hitched, Please find attached the speech I made at my brothers Wedding on Saturday. When researching for the speech I found your site to be most helpful and I would like to thank all of those before me who had posted their speeches to the site- I basically read through all of them and noted down material which I wanted to use and compiled the end result as you see it today and it went down a storm. If I can give any advise to future ' Best Men' searching the site for info- it would be try not to get to stressed at the thought of making the speech, It is nerve racking (as I can vouch, eve