Love Meter Calculator

You’re the best man for your best friend and with that comes the questionable privilege to give the best of all best man wedding speeches. Your friend’s wedding is in four months. You are pretty close to being done dealing with your mixed feelings about his marriage and the fact that things won’t be the same for your friendship afterwards. But you want him to be happy, so you’re more than willing to give the speech of your life.

The speech doesn’t make a re-appearance in your memory until a couple of months later, when someone said something wedding related in a conversation. Ok. Got to remember this one and you scribble a note on a napkin, just to make sure. Your speech is going to be one of those funny best man wedding speeches that everyone will remember. Of course you lose the napkin.

The next three weeks just seem to fly by and a feeling of pressure is settling in: you do still need to get something written down. You’re an organized kind of guy, so you plan on taking Saturday morning. A plan is always good. Friday afternoon the phone rings, and your best friend asks you to help him pick up that couch for the new apartment. Hey, sure you’re going to help. You had something else planned for Saturday, you memory faintly prompts. Well couldn’t have been very important after all, or you’d have remembered, right?

There went another week and they call you with the time and place for the rehearsal dinner when it strikes you like lightning: You don’t have a single word of your version of best man wedding speeches. Squat. Now what are you to do? There are just a few days left to the wedding.

Of course you can’t ask your friends for advice, they’d never let you hear the end of it. In the end you swallow your pride and ask your dad for help. He’s grateful for an opportunity to share his wisdom with you and gives you a bunch of ideas. You take careful notes, lock yourself into your room and go at it. Or so you thought. You scribble and scribble, page after page, then you get stuck and nothing sounds right. By now your hair looks like Einstein’s from trying to pull it out in desperation and you’re ready to give up and admit defeat.

Well no, not there yet. Somewhere in the back of your memory there is a tug: you saw that wedding magazine sitting around here somewhere . . . there it is, with wedding speech examples too . . . for the bride, of course. — If this resembles what you’ve been through these last months: you need to make a plan.

To write a good wedding speech you will need a structure that you can then fill out. Think about all the things you like best about your friend and write them down; also include the bride in there. On another list note down some great anecdotes from your shared past. You can never go wrong with funny, but stay away from embarrassing memories, since you want to keep the couples feelings in mind (and that of the guests too for that matter).

Start out shining a bright light on the couple and highlight what makes them the great couple they are. Then quickly travel through your past with your friend and share some of the funny stuff you guys have been through together, include the bride wherever possible (keep tasteful and funny in mind). Focus on the time when the bride and groom just got to know each other, from your point of view (always the official version). Along the way weave in some nice details about your friend and his bride. Show your hopes for their happy future as a couple and how you are going to play an important part in that happiness and . . . close with a witty toast. In the end, be funny and short and you can’t go wrong.

There, you’ve got yourself a structure. Fill it in with your experiences and you’ve got yourself a concise and structured best man wedding speech. A word of advice: When doing best man wedding speeches never embarrass anyone. It would pour a bucket of cold water on the celebration and could put a dent into your friendship. Stay on the bride’s good side and you will pave the way for a long lasting friendship with the both of them.

Learn more about best man wedding speeches. Stop by Jared Wilmers’s site to find out all about how to write impressive best man wedding speeches.