This fear of public speaking is happen to all of us, but it’s not something that you can’t overcome, it’s not something that you can’t learn, because public speaking is a skill and you can practice it and be good at it. With the right advices and direction, you will be able to do an awe-inspiring speech that will amaze your audience.

Today I want to share some useful tips that you can learn and implement right away to improve your self confidence and public speaking skill, and hopefully you will never be afraid ever again to do public speaking, and in this case to do the groom wedding speech.

The first thing you have to do is make a good preparation.

You can browse through our website here for a wedding speech samples or you can go to Youtube and look for a wedding speech sample videos, or you can find a guide that could give you a step by step tutorial that could help you to write a good wedding speech.

After that you can start to write your own groom wedding speech using the speech structure you found in the wedding speech samples, when composing your speech, be sure to add some ingredients such as jokes/humor, that way the audience will enjoy your speech even more, you can also add some stories, everyone loves a good story and you can tell them about the first time you met the bride, the first time you met her parents, how did you propose her, and many more.

If you want to thank some people then you could create a list of names, so that during your groom speech, you can thank them all without missing any names, don’t take too long to do your speech, 5-7 minutes should be enough to cover every important thing you want to say.

Stay alert all the times, I know that you probably have so many things in your mind that day, talking with a lot of people, but remember the time when you should do the speech, don’t wait for the MC to call you to do the speech, be proactive is a good thing and you can coordinate this with the MC so that you won’t waste any precious time.

1. You have to keep it short, wedding reception is a very exhausting events and if you make it worst by giving a long and boring speech then you probably will lose your audience, just give a 3-5 minutes speech, I’m sure that you can see most of the important things in 5 minutes.

2. Don’t write your speech one night before the wedding, because you’re going need to have a practice, and this speech practicing won’t be enough to do it just once, so you need to practice it many times until you can get the speech right, the timing, the topic.

3. Make notes. This is very important to keep you focus on what you want to say because sometimes when people get nervous everything just gone blank, so by keeping notes of your speech can help you get through your speech successfully.

4. Begin your speech with a fair introduction of who you are and how you first met the groom and the bride, tell the audience all the good times you shared together with them, all the funny moments, unforgettable moments, even all the crazy times you spent together. It’s very easy to come up with the materials because you’re the groom’s best friend after all.

5. You should also thank the parents and the guests there, thank them for making the wedding possible and also thank the audience for their time attending the wedding.

6. Spice things up by telling a good story you shared with the groom, this is the perfect time and setting to tell some jokes also, but remember don’t tell jokes that could embarrassed or offends him, tell the groom how lucky he is and how he has been a very good friend to you all this time. Make the story short and to the points, this way you will avoid yourself from saying stupid things that could embarrass your and the groom.

7. Last but not least, raise up you glass and make a toast and congratulate the new bride and groom

When delivering a best man speech, you can begin to tell the audience why he has chosen you to be the groom’s best man, and tell the audience a little bit about yourself, how the two of you first met, how the bride and the groom first met until the day he has proposed the bride, if you have any of this information then you can share them all.

Of all the wedding speeches, I found the best man wedding speech to be the perfect one to tell some jokes because of your close relationship with the groom, you could create a good one liners as an ice breaker and blend in with the audience emotion as you take them to the groom’s past and craziness.

When practicing your speech, be sure to say you speech out loud and this will require a lot of practice to keep your voice volume normal and don’t sound like you’re shouting to the audience. Just stay calm and focus, don’t forget to control your breathing so you can still maintain your voice volume in place.

Write down your point of thoughts on a piece of paper, this way you can have a good structured speech and successfully deliver all your thoughts in your speech, and last but not least, you should practice your timing so that it won’t take too long or too short, just enough share all the necessary thoughts in your best man wedding speech.

Just be sincere and create a best man speech that comes from your heart, I’m sure that you can create a memorable best man speech in no time.

2. Share your writing.
After finishing writing your speech you can always ask one of your friends to read it. You have to let your friend reads your writing in order to eliminate the mistakes you might have done in your writing. Let him/her read it slowly so that you can examine all your speech. Make some notes for any mistakes you did and change them immediately before you forget.

3. Practice your speech.
After you share your writing with your friend, it is now your time to practice your speech. Practice your speech alone in your room, use a mirror to see your mimics. Start by reading your speech slowly, see how well you pronounce them word by word. Do the practice several times until you feel comfortable to speak it out loud in front of audience. If you still feel a little bit nervous, you can practice your speech in front some of your friends. Make sure they do not bored with your speech. If they get bored, you have to practice again or even cut some lines of your speech.

4. Entertaining but not insulting
Your task is to deliver an entertaining speech, so you can add some jokes in your speech. You can find some funny stories from the books or friends, but remember not to insult anyone. Your speech is meant to be entertaining event, so avoid embarrassing anyone, especially the newly weds. You also have to avoid politics, religion, race, or sexual jokes. It is very recommended to avoid these topics or you will insult the audience.

5. Do not drink too much.
You are about to deliver your speech after the groom, one thing you have to do is to avoid drinking too much. It is very advisable for you to avoid it. Drinking too much will make you have no control over yourself. You even can embarrass yourself in front of the audience.

6. End your speech with a toast.
The end of your speech should include your toasts, especially to the newly weds. Do not forget also toast the parents of both sides, your friends, and audiences.

• Prepare your speech in advance

Every good speech needs practice to make it perfect. So, start by writing and then practicing your speech. You can practice your speech in front of the mirror, pay attention to the intonation of every single words you want to deliver. Practice your speech until you feel comfortable to deliver it in front of the audience.

• Make a funny opening line

You can start by introducing yourself as well as delivering funny wedding quotations suitable for the speech. Funny opening line will make the audience’s attention go to you.

• Make fun of the groom

You can make fun of your best friend’s hair, his sport abilities or even his days in school. But, remember to avoid jokes about the groom’s past relationships. The bride and the groom will not find it funny anyway.

• Don’t humiliate the groom, the bride and their families

A funny speech is meant to entertain, not to humiliate anyone. So, avoid humiliating anyone in your speech.

• Avoid religious, political, racial, and sexual jokes

• Don’t make any religious, political, racial or even sexual jokes! Remember, not everyone has the same taste in humor. Stay away from those topics or you’ll just insulting the audience.

• Use hilarious anagrams

To make your speech funny, you can use hilarious anagrams like referring to wedding as suffering to the groom and so on.

• Offered a toast to end your speech

Finally, offer a toast to the bride and the groom, you can add your best wishes to them. Also, don’t forget to thank their families. You may also toast all the guests for their attendance in the wedding reception.

If you don’t have enough sources for funny stories, you can try to search them from the internet, ask your friends for recommendation, or you can read them in some books.

• Prepare yourself about 1 month prior to the wedding day

For your preparation, write down your speech 1 month prior to the wedding day. It will give you enough time to be prepared.

• Get help from reliable sources

If you find it difficult to write the speech, you can start by getting your speech materials from reliable sources. You can get your help from friends, books, or even browse them from the internet.

• Start to write your speech

After you get help from friends, books or the internet, you can now start to write your speech. Several things you have to include in your speech are:

1. Introduce yourself
2. Funny stories, you can add them in your opening lines.
3. Congratulate the newly weds
4. Making fun of the groom and the bride, remember to make humor for entertaining, not to insult anyone, especially the groom and the bride.
5. Nostalgic stories, tell your childhood moments with the groom, how you met him, how you feel about him as your best friend.
6. Compliment the newly weds. Tell the groom how handsome he is on his wedding day, how good he is as a friend and so on. You can also compliment the bride, tell how gorgeous she is, and how they perfectly match with each other.
7. Compliment the parents, friends, & the guests.
8. Prepare a toast to the newly weds.

• Deliver your speech with full confidence

After you write down your speech, rehearse it until you feel confidence to stand in front of the audience and deliver it well. Remember, do not drink too much before delivering your speech or you will just make yourself embarrass. It is advisable to limit yourself to one or two drink before the speech. Finally, go ahead and deliver your speech successfully.

The first thing you have to do is to write down your speech. Below are some points you need to follow:

• You have to keep it short and simple

Remember that a long speech will drag the guests into boredom. Just make your speech short, simple and memorable.

• Make out funny stories

You can make fun of your friend’s old times, maybe something about his hair, his acts, and so on. But remember to avoid making out funny stories about his ex-girl friends. You will just ruin the whole things if you ever mentioning his ex-girl friends.

• Be honest with you speech

The story you wanted to tell must be the real one, if you make it up, you’ll just embarrass the groom and those who know him.

• Write down your opinion about the groom as your best friend

Make the groom proud in his wedding day. Write down how good he is as your best friend, talk about how he is always be there for you as his best friend. Focus on your friend’s goodness.

• Write down your wishes to the newly weds

To end your writings, give your best wishes to them. What you really want them to be in the future. You have to mention it sincerely.

The second thing you have to do is to rehearse all your writings before the wedding day. The last thing, remember to stand firmly in front of the audience when you wanted to deliver your speech. And don’t drink too much before your turn to give speech or you’ll embarrass not only yourself but also the groom.

Here are some tips to be followed for any best men to deliver their toast:

1.Introduce yourself
It is recommended to introduce yourself before you deliver your toast. You can start by mentioning your name and how you know the groom and also the bride. Only by introducing yourself, you can get the audience’s attention.

2.Compliment the newly weds
Say some thing nice about the newly weds. You can say how lucky the bride is, or how lucky the groom is to get married to her. You also need to compliment their appearances. You can say how handsome is the groom, how gorgeous is the bride and how they are so perfect for each other.

3.Make out a humor
A ‘good’ humor will get the audience’s attention as well as throw away their boredom. But, remember not to embarrass the groom, the bride or their family.

4.Tell some nostalgic stories
Along with the humor or funny story you make, you can add some nostalgic stories about your friendship with the groom. Tell them your childhood moments with him and tell them how good he is to you as his best friend. Make him look good in everyone’s eyes in his wedding day.

5.Congratulate the couple
Finally, you have to congratulate the couple on their special moment of life. You can say how you are grateful to attend your best friend’s wedding and then you can congratulate them for the wedding. You can also add your best wishes for them. Say how you wanted them to live a happy marriage life.

You can also point out about the groom relationship with the bride, how they first met and how they manage to stay together while undergo all obstacles that may stand in the way and wish them a good long year of wedding.

Here’s a video that could give you an idea how a best man wedding speech need to be done, so please enjoy it.

1. First introduce yourself properly and then you can start by greeting your guests and thak them for being at the wedding, because you’re the best man then most of the guests probably still don’t know who you are, that’s why you need to tell them a little bit about your relationship to the groom and about yourself.

2. After that you can start your story telling about the groom, tell them about his parents and relatives, how he grew up, how you both went into the same college or work together, where he met his new wife, funny accidents, everyone loves a good story and you can also add some jokes about the groom, nothing beats a good laugh to break the silence.

3. The main body of your best man wedding speech should be about sharing memories about the groom’s past, usually all the times that you have shared together with him, you can also start revealing the more personal side of the groom’s character, it will give the audience more better view or insights that may not know him a much better idea of what a great person he is.

Lets the audiences start to get to know the groom more. If you have not grown up with your friend, it can be very helpful to schedule some time with the groom’s parents before writing your speech. They are sure to have many funny stories of his childhood years. The bride, also, can often be counted on to provide some juicy “embarrassment material” about her future husband.

Just remember to prepare your wedding speech earlier. Because you need time to practice your timing and speeches, you may also need to revise the speech and adjust the timing so it will be perfect.