Funny Groom Speeches – Discover the Jokes that work
by admin on November 20, 2009
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One key element on any wedding speech is that you should try to make it funny. It doesn’t have to be completely funny, but funny groom speeches always entertain the crowd. Just try to make sure they convey a message and are not offensive to anyone.
I knew I wanted to be funny (or at least try!) but most importantly I needed to remain respectful. The father of the groom had his own speech, so I knew I wanted to thank him for his toast and not insult anybody, especially his daughter with some awkward joke! Not sure this would have worked too well…
So, here is my take on a good Speech Humour
When I used humour on my own wedding speech, I know it helped me keep the audience alert. I used it on different spots of the speech, as a way to keep people listening and sort of bring them back to the speech. During a toast, the groom should be the main focus as well as his bride!
The best way to use this tactic in my experience is to interject your regular speech with a few good jokes. Say emotional things, then add a little humour to keep everyone relaxed and focused. I was pretty nervous and emotional, so this also really helped me as well as the audience!
Being informal and interacting with the audience whenever possible is a great funny groom speeches tip I learned. Don’t make it a bring thing, it is a Toast not a Uni Lesson! The groom should approach the speech as if he was sitting with old friends and casually talking. I know you might be nervous but when you think about it, the people in the room that matter are your friends and family.
Something I did, was to look in the eyes of the people in the room and rotatet my eye contact with several people in the room. This really helped me relax actually!
These tips will hopefully get you started writing some funny groom speeches. For more details you might want to try this great resource that helped me write my speech.
Groom Wedding Speech Video
by admin on November 1, 2009
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Just made this little video (sorry I am not a video master!) with some quick tips for your wedding speech. Hopefully it will be useful to you during your upcoming groom wedding toast.
Groom Wedding Speech Content
by admin on October 25, 2009
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So what are the key things you should write about on your wedding speech? there are 2 things you should make sure you include no matter what.
The first one is to thank key people at the wedding and the second is to put emphasis on your family.
When writing your thank you section, be sure to include details about it. don’t just say stuff like “Thanks for everything” or “Thanks a lot”. Give a little background story. Actually you will find that doing this Thank you exercise will give you ideas on what to include in your groom wedding speech. You should be able to come up with little side stories that will surely entertain the crowd. If not, doesn’t matter, the goal is to acknowledge the important people that helped you during your life.
But remember, your family is first. While this is Your wedding day, it is very much a family day too. Try to put emphasis on family bonds and stories, make them feel a big part of this event. Talk about anecdotes and how they impacted your life and your bride’s life too.
We mentioned it before and it surely is an almost mandatory piece of the groom wedding speech but talking about how you met your bride is allways a crowd’s favorite.
At the end of the day, no matter what, you will get nervous during and before your groom wedding speech, but remember the basics and be careful on the delivery
Groom Wedding Speech preparation
by admin on October 25, 2009
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Ok so this is my first post about how to prepare and write a groom wedding speech. Actually maybe this can help anybody trying to write a wedding speech. The main problem I faced was not only writing my speech for the weeding but the stress that came with it imagining that I would need to deliver it in a memorable way.
I mean that is what everybody expects right? Maybe you are experiencing this too. I was imagining everybody looking at me and analyzing every single word I was saying, hoping that it would be both meaningful and funny.
As you can tell I am not much of a public speaker and the though of standing in front of a group of people was a bit stressful. But this was Our wedding after all and there were hundreds of other things to stress about already! No point in adding one more.
Alcohol helping 
I took courage and started to write my speech. But that’s exactly the problem, where should I start? So this is how I did it. I simply didn’t start and left it for later. Of course I later found out that was a big mistake as I ended up scrambling for ideas in a messy way. So my advice would be: don’t make that same mistake. Try to plan ahead if you can, it will be much easier…
But most importantly Get started, write something down, anything really as long as it gets your brain going. Some examples that helped me write my groom wedding speech was thinking about where Julie and I met, our first dates, our important moments and best memories, stuff like that.
I actually found that speech prompts and guides were quite helpful in allowing me to structure my thoughts and put all that stuff together. Then I was able to tie it all together in a nice way and practice it a couple of times to ensure I would be ok delivering it. try to practice in front of mirror or a friend a couple of days before the wedding so that you can almost memorize it and when the time comes it would be second nature and definitely less stressful
Oh, and another thing, on your first written draft don’t immediately try to wrike wedding speech jokes or have a funny speech. You will start second guessing yourself. Just start with the important items get this right, then add some funny speech elements and tie it all together.
