Great Wedding Speaches: My Story

Grown up in a big family I’ve attended countless weddings. It used to be a funny thing to watch our wedding-speakers-to-be (my father, my uncles and cousins) torture themselves for days in pursuit of the perfect words for their wedding speaches. Well, interesting enough, not everyone ended up with peoples clapping.

As it says you won’t understand until you play it yourself. About 10 years ago, it came my turn to get on the stake. I was invited to be the best man for one of my cousins and -- I remember clearly until today that -- it was a unspeakable struggling moment when I was starting to compose my first ever best man speach. I had so many details to say but didn’t know how to put those pieces of memories together. I stood in front of the mirror and watched my confidence drift away. I felt I would screw it up and became more nervous and afraid.

But it turned out that at least my luck was still with me. A friend of mine introduced me to Dan – a nice guy, smart and with a gift of humor - the author of the popular wedding speaches guide package today, but at that time he was just helping his friends prepare wedding speaches as a hobby. We met at a street corner café in one shinny afternoon. It didn't take long before I realized that this guy really knows the stuff when it comes to wedding speaches writing. We talked and discussed and imagined and laughed... and finally composed my best man’s speech out!

And this one turned out to be just extraordinary. My grandma even laughed with tears at the end of my speach. Everyone loved it and my family members are still talking about it. "It is a legend!"

Since then, I’ve been invited perform more welcome, farewell, birthday and wedding speaches in all kinds of family events. With all my confidence and sometimes advice from Dan, I did pretty well.

What I've learned was wedding speaches can be difficult to solve, but with the proper help, practice and sincerity, you can give your memorable wedding speaches that touches the hearts of the bride, groom and everyone invited.

So I put some tips on how to prepare a killer wedding speach here for everyone needs help on that. Because I've been there and I understand how important a good start means for you and how important your stunning wedding speach is for the “BIG” day.

Hope it helps.

Best Wishes,
Peter Brendon
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