Wedding speeches are one of the easiest public speaking forums. Remember, most everyone attending a wedding is in good spirits. Keeping this in mind, its easier to deliver a relaxed meaningful message. Your speech can follow a very simple outline as I will discuss in the following paragraph.
The first part of your speech will be the greeting to the audience or a simple welcome. You can introduce yourself and the relationship you have to which individual you are representing in the wedding. This opening can be as basic as saying "I am your name, and welcome you to this joining of". You get the idea. After your opening, quickly move on to catching the audiences attention by giving comments that are neutral but positive in nature about the bride and groom. You can recognize there strong bond or how fortunate they were to meet each other.Now is a good time to throw in something humorous, but again do not say something that could offend either the bride or groom.Especially do not bring up past relationships either has had. Make these statements short and in good taste. Next you will want to move onto something touching from the heart. This is the hardest part but if practiced before hand, it will be moving to the audience. You will have to come up with this on your own because you know the bride and groom more intimately. The final part of your speech will be the closing statements to both bride and groom about their future. A positive, sincere good luck and include the audience for a toast to close your speech.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Taking The Stress Out Of Wedding Speeches
You have just received a call on the news of your best friends upcoming wedding. Chosen to be the honorary guest, you suddenly realize that you will have to give a speech. If your like me, public speaking isn't at the top of my list for things to do. Public speaking generally is a very discomforting effort for just about anyone and takes years to become good at. The forum of a wedding is much less demanding and doesn't require you to present the speech of the century. Rather than trying to come up with some brilliant speech, we will examine the process of a practical wedding speech.
First of all, lets try to make a simple but to the point wedding speech that everyone will love and enjoy hearing. The key here is simplicity. Avoid going into long stories of the past and all your adventures together. The audience doesn't want to hear this and will not be able to relate. The last thing you want to do is embarrass or make people feel uncomfortable. However, its good to throw maybe one or two sentences into your speech about the woes of the single days. This will be entertaining, humorous, and just about everyone in the audience can relate to. In addition to humor, follow up with how lucky and special the two are for finding each other. This will make everyone at the wedding feel more united and help give the wedding a justification of its importance. Your speech should be limited to around 5-7 minutes. Going beyond this time frame, you will begin to bore everyone to tears. The less time you talk, the less likely you will say something stupid. Staying sober is a wise decision at this type of venue. You may feel really nervous, but remember alcohol may loosen you up just a bit too much.
Generally a wedding speech is given at the church or outdoors during the ceremony.This environment may seem overwhelming due to all the visible space. Keep in mind that the wedding speech isn't about you and feel honored to be giving it. This helps to take that edge off before giving the speech. Wear a smile and you will be surprised how easy the words begin to flow. You may want to do your wedding speech in the manner of a poem. This approach tends to be much easier since its coming from your heart rather than a generalized introduction.
First of all, lets try to make a simple but to the point wedding speech that everyone will love and enjoy hearing. The key here is simplicity. Avoid going into long stories of the past and all your adventures together. The audience doesn't want to hear this and will not be able to relate. The last thing you want to do is embarrass or make people feel uncomfortable. However, its good to throw maybe one or two sentences into your speech about the woes of the single days. This will be entertaining, humorous, and just about everyone in the audience can relate to. In addition to humor, follow up with how lucky and special the two are for finding each other. This will make everyone at the wedding feel more united and help give the wedding a justification of its importance. Your speech should be limited to around 5-7 minutes. Going beyond this time frame, you will begin to bore everyone to tears. The less time you talk, the less likely you will say something stupid. Staying sober is a wise decision at this type of venue. You may feel really nervous, but remember alcohol may loosen you up just a bit too much.
Generally a wedding speech is given at the church or outdoors during the ceremony.This environment may seem overwhelming due to all the visible space. Keep in mind that the wedding speech isn't about you and feel honored to be giving it. This helps to take that edge off before giving the speech. Wear a smile and you will be surprised how easy the words begin to flow. You may want to do your wedding speech in the manner of a poem. This approach tends to be much easier since its coming from your heart rather than a generalized introduction.
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