Known for a while that I have to do my best man bit next summer and was only mildly bricking it at this stage. But now another pal has also asked me to be best man in two weeks time :shock:

So tell me all your best tips and stories- good or bad- I can take it.

 

Will of course be doing the honour of delivering the groom to the church in double quick zed time, so look out in a couple of weeks for a black zed with white ribbon bombing through Wantage.

at the end of my best man speach i handcuffed the bride and groom togeather :D does that help ??

 

Regards,

 

alex

In my best man's speech I told about how the groom jumped out of an african brothel's first floor window without his trousers or the groups food kitty money.

 

I was bricking it before the speech but it was great after as everyone felt they knew me and was really relaxed.

suppose its like all things mate - the second you start off then you're sorted

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try here, theres rucks of best man speeches, go steal all the best bits from them all and wangle them into your own, thats what i did and it was brilliant.

 

mine lasted about 15 mins, started with intro of who i was ( most people ther didnt know), mentioned, where, when ,how bride and groom met. Said how great brides parents were, (Ass licking always goes down well), then gave a full on character assasination of the groom. Finished of with the toast, " May your health be healthy, your wealth be wealthy and your love true, x and y this ones for you, to x and y ,cheers"

I enjoyed every minute of it, but the fact that i had for the last 2 months been training large groups of people all over the north of england helped enormously.

 

Biggest tip, learn your speach, then just keep little notes in a small flip over notepad. My notes sort of looked like:

 

section - intro

mention: x

y

z

 

Section - how bride n groom met

mention x

y

z

 

that way if you know it, the little x y and z bit will be just keywords to remind you which bit to talk about.

 

Nothing worse than a best man who reads from his sheet, oh and dont say ERRRRRRRR!!!!

 

Other than that, just enjoy it.

Thanks for the tips guys!

 

So far I have been practising reading it to my 5 and 7 year old girls. They seem to love it. Audience of 150!! -Totally different story.

I reckon get one or two :duffer: inside me and should be ok.

Good gag, went down a treat at a mates wedding, you'll probably know it:-

 

Get a load of blank keys from a locksmiths (about 25-25 should do), and secretly hand them out to random ladies before the speeches, also making sure that you give them to a couple of guys too. During the speech, announce that the groom was known to have had an 'active' past, and for the brides sake you would like to ask for all of his ex-partners to hand their keys back to him. Watch the brides face when a stream of women come up to him with keys! Watch how that face changes when the guys get up!!!!!

 

This went down a treat - peoples faces were a picture when 2 guys got up. I think they believed it up to that point!!

 

It's an oldie, but it's gr8 for a laugh.

:x: Dont do the brides MUM..................at the evening party :x: it only came out 3 yrs later...:rofl:

 

The key one does go down well if kept quite from the Bride and groom..:rofl:

Dont do what I did and stumble your words..."I'd like to F**K the bridesmaids" instead of "thank"......the faces on some of the older relatives made me really want to crawl under a rock !

 

and I never did get to "thank" them properly later :(

:dance: I DONE IT! :dance:

 

I'm back from Steventon and survived my first best man speech. Real nervous all day!! :cry:

But when the time came, I just cracked on and banged out a great speech- really enjoyed it apart from the closing stages when my notes started to shake furiously so I just chucked em and laughed it off :)

 

Everyone was suddenly my friend after that and said what a great speech. Glad I've finally faced my fear and looking forward to doing it all again in June for another pal :rolleyes:

Cheers ! :duffer: