Best Man Speech

Your Stag Weekend is but one of your duties as the best man, of course you can't forget that come the big day you are going to have to stand up and speak to all of the grooms friends and family... follow the tips that we have found useful and it may help ease the pressure a little.

Preparation

The only thing that will guarantee you don't crash and burn when facing a sea of expectant friends and surrogate family. Give yourself a good few of weeks to think over the kind of speech you want to give. A useful place to start is to consider the kind of audience you will be addressing. how well do you know your friends family? The last thing you want is to be confronted by a wall of icy silence when telling your Bernard Manning-style story about the groom's secret penchant for latex. With most respectable wedding parties this kind of dabbling in the more smutty side of your humour will require vast amounts of alcohol, a perfect delivery and ear-plugs for more frail members. The Personal Touch

Once you have established what will be acceptable and laid down your boundaries you will be free to play around with ideas that are unique to your friendship with the groom. This is where you come into your own and will take up most of your time and attention. Here is where you make your mark and bask in the glory of being a publicly acknowledged Best Mate! One typical technique is the 'put-down, compliment, put-down' pattern evoking laughter followed immediately by sentimental 'aaah s' then laughter and so on. The aim of which is to reflect the emotional rollercoaster that the party have already been subjected to all day and play on their already raw emotions. The result being a room of drunk friends and relatives who don't know if they're laughing or crying!

Delivery

The backbone of any successful best man's speech is confidence. The main advantage of a wedding speech is that you can interact with the crowd with 'relative' ease. So if you find yourself at a stumbling block don't hesitate to invite a comment or two from the parents or grandparents. This is likely to go down well with Mums in particular who may well be in need of a comforting compliment or two! One mistake often made prior to speech giving is to search for your absent confidence in a few too many beverages that will be in surplus supply. While a couple can take the edge off any nerves a tendency to overindulge could lead to drastic results!

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