Best man speeches

How to give a world-class best man speech and pull the fittest bridesmaid

These are all things that any right-minded fella should be petrified of. But, believe it or not, none of these even come close to the shit-your-pants feeling that creeps up on every bloke when a mate asks him to be best man at his wedding.  At first you think of the stag do and smile. Then you picture the wedding and the ominous words ‘best man speech’ start flashing in front of your eyes. Cue bed-wetting panic.

Public speaking is the number one phobia in society for a reason - most people don’t like making tits of themselves in public. That fear is multiplied when the audience is made up of people you know. Make a knob of yourself at your best mate’s wedding and you’re going to hear about it for years to come. But the real killer fear is you’re expected to be funny. Deep down you know you’re not that funny and soon everyone else is going to know that too. Great.

So what do some best men do to counteract their knee-knocking fear? Sadly, a fair few take the bone idle option and copy well-worn jokes off the internet. Or even worse they copy other people’s best man speeches and just change a few words around. The result is always utter bollocks. Most people at a wedding will have heard more than 20 best man speeches before. Some as many as 100. Do you really think they haven’t all heard the one about ‘being asked to be best man is like making love to the Queen – it’s an honour but nobody wants to do it’?

Not only do you risk boring the audience to death by copying best man jokes or best man speeches off the internet, you risk offending your best mate. He chose you to be best man for a reason – because you know him better than anyone else. The least you can do is write a speech tailored to his personality and past deeds.

Sure, it’ll take longer than copying the same old rubbish off the net, but the upside is you at least have a chance of making the audience laugh. And there really is no better feeling in the world than that. If sex with Jessica Alba is a 9 out of 10 on the pleasure-ometer, making a room full of people laugh is a 9.5 out of 10. Perhaps the only thing that could top it is scoring the winning goal for England in the World Cup final… and that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.

So how do you go about producing your own best man speech that’ll have people rolling in the aisles? My advice is to get help from a bona-fide best man speech expert who can show you the ropes. I’ve created a unique best man speech course which teaches you how to research, structure, write, practise and deliver a world-class best man speech. Just head over to BestManSpeeches.co.uk to find out more.

A final word. When you give an original and funny speech in public women will find you attractive. I know this because I gave a best man speech, it went down a storm, and I pulled the fittest bridesmaid at the wedding. With the right help, so can you!