Planning My Best Man Wedding Speech

Hi Paul here,

I always knew that when my good friend, Ryan, decided to get married and asked me to be the best man that I was going to have to prepare several best man speeches examples.  What I didn’t know was how hard it was going to be.  Don’t tell anyone but I didn’t prepare my speech for weeks until I realized that I better start to write it before it was too late.

Here’s a quick tip – don’t do what I did and leave it until the last minute.  If you do this your speech isn’t going to be that good.  I strongly suggest that you plan well in advance.

When you begin contemplating your best man speech you’ll quickly realize that the tast of writing it may appear daunting.  Remember that in addition to writing it, you also need to help prepare the groom for his big day.  You know, ensuring that he has everything as well as organzing his stag party.  If you get too caught up in these planning activities you will forget to write your speech.

About a week before the wedding day, I realized that I should start planning the speech and toasts.  So I sat down and started putting a whole bunch of ideas on paper.  It was a mixed bag of ideas that I jotted down based on the first thing that entered by head.  The hard part was taking all of these ideas and making them sound like one great speech.

Initially I found that organizing these ideas into a series of wedding toasts was hard.  However, I found some great speech guides and best man speeches that made this easy.  These guides helped take my information and develop it into a story that was funny, entertaining and memorable.  If you’re serious about creating a lasting impression then I encourage you to check them out.