Groom's speech?

[nallac]

Shit its 10pm on a sat night and i'm googling grooms speeches(in between surfing KB and An R1 forum of course).

Man its hard to find /copy a speech for my/our....(in reality its HER wedding),
for those of you who have done the dirty deed before how did ya go about writing one?.

I've found lots of soppy shit speeches thanking everyone under the sun, speeling on about being madly in love,being best friends etc, but thats not the sort of person i am......

I need help its only 3 weeks away..with the speech that is...
to late to back out now, been together 15years engauged for 10...

[coffeejunkie]

Ok so this isn't going to help with your speech but i have a question......

Why marry now?

I'm asking this simply because like you i have had a long engagement to my wounderful man, Been togeather 17 years and engaged 15 of them and now am woundering if we will ever marry, We are both happy with the way things are so yeh......

[ManDownUnder]

3 by 3 structure...

3 major points
1) The wedding Day and your gorgeous bride
2) Your newfound family and how awesome they are
3) The future

each of those points gets broken into 3 sub points = e.g - for the first topic...
1) The Day You met your bride
2) Your ever growing love and how you should do the right thing by you both
3) Today, the ceremony, the guests and the happiest day of your life.


after that put some words to each subpoint, and finish up with the traditional toasts to whoever it is that protocol says you should toast

THE most important thing - practice the speach. If you need cards use 'em - no shame in that at all! you'll only need 9 wee bullet points anyway and you'll come off looking like a pro!

A few laughs along the way don't hurt too

[cowboyz]

we married 10 yrs after we were going to.

re:coffee junkie :Same question was asked when we got married. My my only thoughts at the time remain the same. I better marry her before she figures out I am a complete noob and I couldnt possibly find anyone else to put up with my shit.

As for the speech. I sat down one afternoon and started writing. Dont take inspiration from a web forum or the internet, afterall, the internet is fully of opinions of those who are not likely to *ever* get laid so not a real good source for quality. Take inspiration from the past 10 years of your life...

[nallac]

Ok so this isn't going to help with your speech but i have a question......

Why marry now?

ummm, we decided it was time?, got sick of the kids asking why mummy had a different last name

I'm asking this simply because like you i have had a long engagement to my wounderful man, Been togeather 17 years and engaged 15 of them and now am woundering if we will ever marry, We are both happy with the way things are so yeh......

If you are happy as is theres no real reason to marry?,is there???????
its alot of money for one day.....could get another bike or two

3 by 3 structure...

3 major points
1) The wedding Day and your gorgeous bride
2) Your newfound family and how awesome they are
3) The future

each of those points gets broken into 3 sub points = e.g - for the first topic...
1) The Day You met your bridecan't mention that its a bit xrated lol
2) Your ever growing love and how you should do the right thing by you both
3) Today, the ceremony, the guests and the happiest day of your life.


after that put some words to each subpoint, and finish up with the traditional toasts to whoever it is that protocol says you should toast

THE most important thing - practice the speach. If you need cards use 'em - no shame in that at all! you'll only need 9 wee bullet points anyway and you'll come off looking like a pro!

A few laughs along the way don't hurt too

i pretty much have the jist of whats supposed to be in there, its just i'm hopeless with ummm writing things like speeches

[nallac]

we married 10 yrs after we were going to.

#1 re:coffee junkie :Same question was asked when we got married. My my only thoughts at the time remain the same. I better marry her before she figures out I am a complete noob and I couldnt possibly find anyone else to put up with my shit.

#2 As for the speech. I sat down one afternoon and started writing. Dont take inspiration from a web forum or the internet, afterall, the internet is fully of opinions of those who are not likely to *ever* get laid so not a real good source for quality. Take inspiration from the past 10 years of your life...

#1 some times its better the devil ya know.......luckly for us

#2 so your talking bout skiddy, carver then

[Skyryder]

Talk about what you know. Make notes and use a speech card just to recall the points that you want to make.

Unless you are a comedian don't try to be one.

Skyyrder

[Winston001]

Here is a site with examples of wedding speeches. I've used it to crib a few ideas myself. http://www.hitched.co.uk/speeches/sa...sp_example.asp

[nallac]

it just so happens i'm looking at that site already.
up to #37 out of 276............................................... ...........

[imdying]

Wing it. Just talk about how you feel about the day, your bride, the future, and what you're thankful for. Worked for me

Don't stress about it though, it's actually kinda fun

[Okey Dokey]

Yes, don't stress about it! I've been to many weddings and I can't recall anything from any of the grooms' speeches. The best man speeches are usually pretty memorable, however.

So don't put too much pressure on yourself!

[ynot slow]

My first speech was concocted after being at a local pub since 11.00am with my dad and bro and best man,started at 2.45pm finished at 3.00pm and never used it.Next one was off the cuff.

Don't use the opening line as I did of "On behalf of xyz soccer club" but did say shit wrong starting line,as was used to doing after match speech's for the years prior.

[Krayy]

One of the funnies I used in mine was something like....

"Firstly I would like to thank Theo (brides father) for giving away his daughter today. I would however like to remind him that his financial responsibilities to her still remain."

[74 knuckle]

Dude, from what I'm told the worst thing you can do is worry about it, I cant give you any advice as I've never been there myself. However if it's any consolation,my weddings in four weeks so I can empathise with you. I keep sayin to my wife to be that the most important part of the speech is letting every body know that I had to sell my cbr 1000 for it to come about. As for her ole man, he certainly wasn't interested in parting with his fatboy

[firefighter]

Apparently there's some good ones on youtube.....modify the most appropriate one to suit yourself....a mate of mine did that recently and it was really good....