Best Man Speech Examples

This is a peach that i did at my dads wedding.Its easilly modifyable to be appropriate for any grrom no matter what their relationship is to you.

The selfie idea was a real winner! Probably the best photo taken at the wedding, and it didn't cost a penny.

Be prepared to have to adjust your speech as things evidently get covered by the other speeches. A good way to calm the nerves was to arrange a £1 sweepstake betwen all guests on the length of the speeches. people will inevitably heckle saying 'hurry up!' as their guessed time approaches, or as their time passes, they might say 'take as long as you want!'. A good way to invite some 'banter' and to generally calm you down.

I read through loads of the speeches on here, although I ended up trying to steer clear of too many old chestnuts. I felt that I wanted to try and be a bit more personalised, and less generic (also a lot of them are risque and I didn't know the audience too well). Despite knowing better, I ended up only starting to write this about 10days before the wedding date. I printed each paragraph onto a separate page for ease of delivery because at my own wedding I lost my place when I had a wall of text Matt

points to note: The Groom was a bit chubby at school, and has dark blonde, slightly red hair, so of course he was called 'ginger' to which he would always reply "Its Strawberry Blonde!". Alongside my speech I had a powerpoint presentation running showing pictures, and the spoof phone conversation was a part of this, with dial tone etc.. This worked well by pre-recording it, so I didnt have to worry about play acting both parts. I thought about asking someone to role-play with me but didn't want to put anyone under pressure to do so. the presentation was setup with a simple 'congratulations'

There were two Best Men so the speech was written to be short; it lasted just under 5 minutes with laughs and applause.  Additionally, I didn't know the Bride that well and the Groom did his speech last.

 Some Jokes and basic Wedding Thank You's have been removed from the first part of the Speech purely because it doesnt read well and is more visual or how you know bride/groom

I found looking at example speeches really helpful! It let me know what are the standard things to include and then what extras I could include. In my speech i gave some gifts to the bride, i have seen this done a couple of times and think it helps to break up the speech.