Hi, Patrick here,
If you are looking for help in giving funny wedding toasts and speeches then I urge you to keep reading. I have been through the horrors of a bad speech and eventually found a way to give funny wedding toasts with confidence every time. Click here to see the product that made all this possible.
It all started when I was asked to give the best man speech at a wedding. I remembered that at other weddings I had been to, the people who were due to speak very often had a miserable time as their appointed hour drew nearer. I saw many hardly-touched reception meals and increasingly jittery speakers. You should have seen the state one groom got himself into prior to his groom speech – I have rarely seen a more miserable guy and this was meant to be his wedding day!
To be honest I took a pretty relaxed attitude to the wedding toast I had to give, I thought I could just wing it on the night and everyone would love it. The reality was that as the time of the speech got closer the more nervous I was becoming and in the end the speech and toast were terrible. It was the worst feeling in the world and I felt like I had really let my friend down. Everyone was very polite but we all knew I had bombed.
A few weeks later I got another invitation to give a speech at my cousin’s wedding. I knew I had to make some big changes if this was going to be a success. The first thing I realized was that giving funny wedding toasts is not easy. Look at how difficult the job of a stand up comedian is – they have to get up in front of all those people and make them laugh. The first thing I realized was that I needed some ideas so I got some books from the local library about making wedding speeches. Some were not bad but none of the books I found really went into funny wedding toasts without getting too cheesy. What I really needed was some good speech and toast frameworks that I could re-work to fit my cousin’s sense of humor.
In the end I started looking for inspiration online and eventually found a great source of material that made it possible to create an extremely funny wedding toast. They have content for speeches and toasts covering all types of wedding speeches (best man speech toasts, funny best man speeches, funny groom speeches, maid of honor wedding toasts, father of bride speeches etc). Now don’t get me wrong, you can’t really just use their content verbatim, I still needed to do some work but the brilliant thing was how granular their toasts and one liners were. I was able to put together a basic framework for the speech and then just grab the funny snippets of content in the book and work them into the speech. This meant I could create a speech that was pitched perfectly in terms of my cousin’s sense of humor. Cutting and pasting from the ebook made creating a rough draft of the speech very easy which is not something I could have done with a book from the store. Click here to see the product I am talking about.
Once I had the rough draft of the speech I went away and started practicing. I wanted to be able to recite the speech without notes (I would recommend always taking a copy of the speech with you in case you “dry” as they say in theatrical circles.) because I felt this would give me the most self-confidence. And having this self-confidence is key if you want to make the must out of the funny parts of your toast or speech.
I went back to the e-book every day to get more material or replace jokes that just were not working. What I also found going through this exercise was that it improved my own creativity and I was able to come up with quite a lot of my own jokes as well.
Eventually I had my finished wedding speech that was memorized and ready for the big day. I was curious to see if the jitters I had experienced at the previous wedding would resurface. In all honesty I felt great. I enjoyed every minute of the day and was able to have my wedding meal without thinking I was going to throw up with stage fright every two minutes! The speech went down a storm and lots of people came up to me afterwards to congratulate me. I was the most fantastic feeling in the world and I was floating on air for the rest of the night.
Anyway I hope you found all this interesting and that you have found some pointers for delivering funny wedding toasts and speeches. Click here to read more about the resource I used.
