Best Man Speech Examples

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These were my favourite parts of the best 30 speeches on the site at the time. A huge help, which I really appreciated.

I thought I would share my speech since I got a lot of tips from this site and also stole the odd joke from previous speeches that I had read. I done this speech at my best mates wedding and got a lot of compliments on it so I hope it can help any future best men with their speeches. I was told it was about the perfect length and there wasn't really any personal jokes that no one understood and also no real dodgy jokes which most people appreciated. My advice is keep it cleanish, keep it relatively short, avoid swearing and don't get hammered before it! Good luck

This speech was read out by the best man at an Asian Punjabi wedding. Few terms in the speech translated Pind = VillageBhabi = Sister in law

Short and sweet, went down very well mostly thanks to this site! Cheers

so cliched but i was pre warned not to be too bad. Didnt know what to say with so many restrictions

This was a very groom-centric speech, mainly because I hadn't had much dealings with the bride's family.

This is my speech given as best man for my bigger brother. As you'll probably guess he's lived a life of fairly reckless abandon given he must have known at some point I'd get to recount all of this to a room of people with a microphone! This is not word for word as some bits were ad lib'd and a lot of it is personal to the groom .Additionally I may have taken a bit of "artistic license" with stories described! Some place names were changed to be more general and relate to readers from different ends of the country Nonetheless there are some transferable sections/structures/jokes that I made

Your site was unbelievably helpful in writing my speech (as you can easily tell from all the stolen jokes). The bride forgot to put her veil on just before she walked up the aisle - so ad-libbed a bit and threw that in the speech too! Speech seemed to get lots of laughs and generally well received, kept getting complements all night - though my brother did moan a bit about all the abuse lol. Hope this helps someone else out as much as the others helped me, Cheers!

The only problem with the speech is that it is mainly for the groom and bride.  There are a lot of references that only the groom and his family understood.  I tried to make it comedic in the beginning and serious towards the end.   I followed the kind of "format" that seems rather common with best man speeches.  Intro is the introduction and compliments to bridesmaids and bride.  Then some comedic stories about how the groom and I are best buds.  Followed by stories about the groom and the bride and about how they are a grat couple.  Finishing with thanking everyone for coming, congratulatin