How to make the perfect wedding speech
Trust us, it’s easy! Just follow our guide and you’ll give a wedding speech worthy of an Oscar.
Standing up in front of a room full of people and being expected to make them laugh, sigh and maybe even shed a tear?!
OK, so most people are about as keen to do that as they are keen to have a tooth taken out, but it really is a doddle to do and you'll find everything you need, from jokes to hints on how to research your wedding speech, to coping with nerves and basic information, like who speaks when, in our handy guide here.
Plus there's a whole host of sample material to help get you started and you can also consult our useful books on writing a wedding speech, whether you are the best man, groom, father of the bride or maybe even the bride, who also wants to have her say on the big day!
General Sample Wedding Speeches
- Sample speech: For when you’re standing in for the best man
- Speech material: He’s a couch potato
- Speech material: He’s mad about…
- Speech material: My brother or son
- Speech material: He’s going places
- Speech material: He’s not squeaky clean
- Speech material: When he was a kid
- Speech material: Keeping expectations in check
- Speech material: Send us a postcard
- Speech material: Short and snappy
- Speech material: Heartfelt and funny
- Speech material: Just a quickie
- Speech material: Mr and Mrs right
- Speech material: Advice for the honeymoon
- Speech material: On my honeymoon…
- Speech material: Great team
- Speech material: How they’ve changed each other…
- Speech material: I wouldn’t say they’re romantic but…
- Speech material: No stopping them now…
- Speech material: Not a bed of roses
- Speech material: They’ve known each other since…
- Sample material: romantic moments
- Sample speech IV: The appraisal
- Sample speech VI: The political agenda
- Speech material: To those who couldn’t be here
- Sample speech II: Re-working the reading
- Sample speech VII: – A day in the life of…
- Sample speech III: The Two Ronnies
- Sample speech VIII: Emails
- Sample Speeches: For the bride
- Sample speech V: Reality TV interview
- Sample speech: For when you’re standing in for the best man
- Sample speech: A touch of humour
- Sample material: To get you started
- Sample speech: Brief and witty
- Sample material: Honouring a deceased relative
- Sample speech: Short and sweet
- Sample speech: Straight and sentimental
- Short, stand-alone toasts
- Sample material: Stag night consequences
- Sample Speeches: Telegrams
- Speech material: Coming together
- Speech material: Great mums!
- Speech material: Heartfelt thanks
- Sample speech I: Sticking with tradition
- Speech material: Now we’re one big family
- Speech material: To the mums and dads
- Fabulous jokes for a wedding speech
(from the letter A – M) - Sample material: Famous declarations of love
- Sample material: Old-fashioned declarations of love
- Sample material: Poetic declarations of love
- Sample material: Romantic declarations of love
- Sample material: Declarations with a difference
- Sample speech: People we miss
- Sample material: In days gone by…
- Sample material: Communication is the key
- Sample material: Marriage is like…
- Sample material: When the chips are down…
- Sample material: My secret is…
- Sample speech material: Great nickable lines
- Sample speeches: Second marriages
- Sample speech: Sweet and loving
- Sample material: to include children from a previous marriage
- Sample speech: Personal and humorous
- Speech material: She wears the trousers
- Speech material: She’s expecting!
- Speech material: About the bride
- Speech material: She’s a great mum
- Speech material: She’s one in a million
- Speech material: She’s daddy’s girl
