Free Wedding Speech Ideas
Everything You Need To Know

There are lots of websites offering free wedding speech ideas and they are a great place to start, especially if you are feeling the pressure and starting to panic!

Through the years I have listened to a lot of speeches, some have been great and others very embarrassing (mainly for the person giving the speech). The best way to avoid this is to be prepared. Don't think that you can wing it!

Order Of Speeches

Knowledge is key so lets start with the wedding speech order; first is the father of the bride who will finish with a toast to the bride and groom, then the groom will reply and finish with a toast to the bridesmaids, next is the bestman who replies on behalf of the bridesmaids and finishes with a toast to the parents of the couple. Modern day equality could mean a maid of honor speech and then a speech by the father of the groom.

Some weddings even have an open mic type event where everyone can speak if they want to!

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Writing Your Speech

When it comes to writing your speech there are a few things to think about. If you are not a confident public speaker you may want to keep the speech fairly short, compliment the appropriate people and thank the right people - it can be that simple!

For those that want to elaborate it is best to mix sentimentality with humor, you don't want too much of one of these. Too much humor without any sentimentality does detract from the importance of the day and can look a bit crass. Too much sentimentality and everyone will be crying!

Anecdotes that have both humor and that can have a sentimental message work great.

If you search online for free wedding speech ideas there are some great free sites with great jokes that you can mix into your speech and there are also some really easy wedding speech books that you can use for inspiration, here are the best on Amazon at the moment.

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Good luck with the planning!