One Common Thing In All Good Speeches For Best Man

It's not hard to spot one common thing in all successful speeches for best man -- the structure.

Yes! If you've digested my points in the last post what to say in best man speeches, today we're going to stress on how to organize all the materials together in the right way.

The truth is the modern wedding is more flexible these day like who will speak on and lead the toasts. To this end, it is smart that you discuss with the bride and groom about the overall wedding style and procedure before you start the heavy lifting.

The following structure works fine with most of the speeches for best man. I believe it will give you a clear scope of expectation and then you can jump into preparing your best man speech.

And as you may notice that this will be a more detailed version of the content we talked about last time plus the consideration of timing. Hope the overlapping will help you straighten things out and be familiar with what you will be dealing with.

Opening

As we said, normally you will open the speech by people, you, the couple, and your relationship with them. You should show your confidence and ensure that you receive
all the eyeballs of the guests.

Giving thanks

Spend a half minute to thank the main participants, such as the band, ushers and other family members and friends that helped preparing the wedding.

Giving thanks on behalf of bridesmaids

Do not forget this! If the bride has shown his appreciation to the bridesmaids then it time to thanks him on their behalf now.

Congratulating the couple

Let it be faithful and brief. This is the thing you personally want to do the most during your best man speech.

Telling a story about the groom

Refer to our previous post. Just remember telling an funny story doesn't mean you are embarrassing anyone.

Getting Serious

You see the turn from the last one here? You want to be take people out of the jokes and show your sincere respect to the Groom.

Speaking relax again

The power of the structure is here. You get tense, and you get relax. Kinda like a Hollywood movie... people tend to be moved if you follow certain patterns. You can easily achieve this by giving a warm advice to the couple from your heart or reading some humorous message from absentees.

Ending and Proposing a toast

Finally, you could reiterate some gratitudes and finish with a toast to the Bride and Groom.

All right, that's it! And again, you don't have to be rigidly following the above step-by-step, but have a proven structure by hand will definitely make your days easier.

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