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Wedding Speech

Wedding Speech For Coworkers

January 10, 2012

I received an interesting question last week. “Alex, how do you write a wedding speech for a wedding that stems from an office romance? Is it a sensitive issue?” First of all, most office romances are kept secret. Every corporation has a different policy about office relationships but most parties like to keep the romance [...]

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Free Best Man Speech

November 23, 2011

I wanted to share a free best man speech with my loyal readers. Please click on the banner if you want to see 20 more best man speeches. ———————- I cannot think of a time when I’ve been more terrified of saying the wrong thing. You see, Mark is my best friend, and this is [...]

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How to Use Wedding Quotations

November 16, 2011

An effective technique for opening your speech is to use a quotation about love and marriage. The opening is the hook of your speech. It is what draws in the audience. It is absolutely crucial that you nail this part of your speech. You want to spend the majority of your time writing and rehearsing [...]

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Maid of Honor Speech Example

November 9, 2011

I thought it would be useful to dissect some actual video of a wedding speech. I’ll provide the color commentary of what the wedding speaker has done well, and offer some criticism as well. In this video we have a maid of honor speech delivered by the sister of the bride. First of all, the [...]

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Compliments for the Bride

September 27, 2011

One of the things that is difficult in the father of the bride speech, groom speech or best man speech is how to compliment the bride. I’ve compiled some compliments for the bride. Generally, you want to have one paragraph of your father of the bride speech pay homage to the bride.   To say [...]

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Wedding Toast

September 18, 2011

One of the major points of anxiety before any wedding is having to deliver a poignant and touching wedding toast. The public speaking components of most weddings is actually viewed as the least enjoyable part of the wedding by the bride, groom and the best man. The reason for this of course is because the [...]

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Funny Wedding Speech Samples

April 27, 2011

I’ve compiled some funny wedding speeches from around the Web. I think it’s a great way to help you see what works and what doesn’t work when delivering a wedding speech with humor. First of all, here is Rowan Atkinson spoofing a Father of the Bride Speech. The humor he uses here is that he [...]

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The Hardest Part of Wedding Speeches

April 18, 2011

I’m often asked what is the hardest part about delivering a dynamite wedding speech? A lot of people would assume that it is coming up with witty content. The truth is that content is largely what I call “pre-fabricated” for most wedding speeches. What I mean by this is that a large part of your [...]

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What are Funny Wedding Speeches?

March 3, 2011

One of the things that you never see defined is “what is a funny wedding speech“? Most people eagerly try to write a funny wedding speech without first considering exactly what the end product should look like. In this article I’m going to define exactly what constitutes funny wedding speeches. First of all you should [...]

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Wedding Speeches: My Favorite Tips

February 7, 2011

Wedding speeches are all structured in a similar fashion. Whether you are writing a wedding speech as the best man speech or you are the father of the bride the structure is relatively the same. You always want to start off with a bang and that means an introduction that grabs attention. Only one problem [...]

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