Best Man Speech Ideas: Choosing which Words to Say

In a wedding there will always be toasts to almost everything that concerns the newly weds, and this is something that scares people into declining wedding positions like best man or maid of honor. As it is usually a case of having no idea on what to say when asked to give a ‘best man's speech'. Now don't despair if you're one of these men who simply stutter in the face of mounting pressure to give the most creative and insightful best man speech. There are simply ways of going around this predicament.

One of these is to try to get your state of mind in the wedding mood. In this way, there's a big chance that you'll be able to think of good stuff to say and not just mumble about things that's really incoherent. And if appearing as incoherent as possible is your goal, then you might as well, make your best man speech as funny as possible. Being funny is better than incoherence, and your groom would certainly hate you for the latter.

For other sources of ideas, you can also look at how you and the groom interact in terms of relationships and past experiences. Generally, the best man is always a person who's a dear friend or a relative of the groom and one does not become a close friend or relative if there's no time shared with each other.

You can build your best man speech ideas in relation to the past that you two share. Now, in many cases, these speeches that build onto the past tend to be funny ones because they reveal certain aspects of the groom that's never public. Just be very sensitive to the emotions and reactions of the people around you, most importantly, the bride and the groom's.

You can also use the surroundings as foundation for you speech. You can talk about the place where the wedding is situated as well as the planned honeymoon, and use these places as your focal point that says "...ah, my friend is really conservative, he wanted to get married in a church." Or something else like "...this couple really like beaches, even before they chanced upon each other, and so there's no wonder why we're standing in knee-depth salt water, right now, on their wedding."

Or if you're really emotional and could pull off a delivery of emotional speech, but just needs added coaching on what to say, you could try to speak about insights on what you think of them as a couple.

To add up, you can even address them individually and voice the unsaid sentiment of the crowd, which is for the two of them to love one another. You can speak to the bride, and it's good that you don't ignore her, and rant off with your best man speech about things that only concern the guests and the groom. And being an emotional guy like you, you can definitely find the right words to say. And it's just in the manner of choosing which and how you get ideas with your best man speech.

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