[Closed] groom speech

Not sure whether to start with a one liner or not?

How about this one?

My ex girlfriend and I would like to thank you all for coming

christ im getting wed in 25 days and have no idea what im meant to say 🙂

I'm getting married in 20 days.. started to write mine, but looked here for pointers..
http://www.wednet.com/articles/GroomHasTheFloorMakeYourSpeechCount.aspx
http://www.speech-topics-help.com/groom-speech.html

What about "In preparing for speaking in front of so many people, I was advised to imagine you all naked...So please, forgive me if I get an erection."

oh i made a right balls of mine

did'nt write a speech and my god i wish i had

Got married last year (in fact its tha anniversary tomorrow). You tube was a suppring gold mine. Also the grooms book from confetti was a great help.

I completely made mine up as I went along and muddled through just fine.
I tried writing one for weeks but everytime I sat down and started the nerves got to me so I just thought **** it I'll worry about it on the day, We've got it all on DVD and I thought I did allright all things considered.
Although I do wish I'd missed out the bit about the strippers in Krakow.

Best Man's Speech - still great tho'

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My best man had the foresight to get hold of a copy of Debrett's Correct Form. Which, perhaps surprisingly, is not very stuffy or awful in the modern edition at all. It was helpful to have a structure of what ground we were traditionally supposed to cover, and we worked from there.

Don't worry about the 100 people...well you will do up until the second you start speaking but as soon as you do you forget about your fears and actually start enjoying it. Everyone there is happy for you and will smile, laugh and clap even if youre rubbish.

Thank everyone for coming - "On behalf of my beautiful new wife and I...blah blah blah" (always gets a clap)
Thank your parents - making you the man you are today etc.
Thank her parents - for welcoming you into the family etc. and paying
Say how you met and how great she looks and how much you love her
Thank the ushers - "for trurning up"
Thank the bridesmaids "I had a good look at them but decided I'd stick with <your new wifes name here>"
Hand over to best man - "who lives in a fantasy world and likes to make things up, so please just humor him!"

etc. etc.

The groom's speech is easy as yoshimi says - just remember to thanks the right people and be glowing about your new wife. No-one expects jokes from you so just stick to the safe route (seeing as you are nervous) and just try to enjoy it.

Make sure you [u]directly[/u] address your bride at some point during the speech and say something suitably slushy.

This should be a centre-point of your speech. She is the real reason you are there. Everyone else just showed up. Declare your love for her in front of them all, in your own words, and the rest of the speech won't matter.

Just get wasted.

Start off with " my wife and I", thanking all the people (as Yoshimi above).
Keep it short and sweet, leaving the jokes for the best man.

As Bunnyhop says. The 'wife and I line' is a guaranteed laugh and it gets easier from there on in.

Follow the advice regarding thanks as outlined above and maybe throw in a couple short anecdotes if you fancy it. Mine lasted about 5 minutes tops and I was a fair few pints, glasses etc. down by then but managed to deliver a perfectly sober speech somehow.

Good luck and Congrats. It's an AWESOME day.

I stood up and apologised for being a bit rough, "ended up on a bender after the rehearsal with guests that had travelled to get here" I said "I was up all night blowing chunks," "And that chunks was the name of my dog!" Went right over the heads of most people, remember my uncle falling under table in kinks though! Brilliant, one of the few times you are surrounded by people who have your best regards at heart, doesn't happen often,
PJ.

'This is the second time today I have stood up from a warm seat with a piece of paper in my hand'

(Half the room collapsed in giggles, the other half I didn't ever meet again...)

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gettin married in 8 days i have no idea

and im terrified that my best mans speech will wreck the marriage before its begun- he mas a lot of ammo and no sense of tact

I made good use of my hip flask then just winged it. Seemed to go pretty well, I basically thanked everyone and said how beautiful I thought my new wife was.

Got married last year and realised that despite having heard about 300 groom's speeches (I'm a wedding photographer), I had no idea what to say.

I did write mine down, then reduced it to bullet points with keywords - sounds a bit clinical but will stop you looking like a d1ck, or losing it and crying (very common!).

Best tip I can offer is don't get pissed before your speech - it's very easy to just accept loads of drinks from family / mates and then be unable to speak let alone make a speech - nowt wrong with a few stiffeners though!

And enjoy every second of the day - it'll be over before you know it - really!

I'd given loads of presentations and spoken infront of 100+ people a few times, but I was still nervous. Then it suddenly dawns on you that this is one of the only speeches you'll ever give where people are on your side. Everything will be fine.

I planned to write it down, but never had time due to excessive work so I made it up on the day and it went down fine. Just have a structure similar to yoshimi suggested and you'll be fine. A nice anecdote of how you met/got engaged will go down well, even if loads of people already know the story.

I introduced my best man in the way Clarkson introduces the stig - thought that was funny - not everyone did

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