BEST MAN SPEECH
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- Beeswax0
Watch Sherlock 3rd season 2nd episode. I just did.
- teh0
- BusterBoy0
Just remember it's a best man spech, not a Roast. My brother in law was roasted at his wedding and it wasn't pretty. Big chunk of family members were horrified!
- odobo0
i've had the pleasure of doing 3 in my life - and I think they've got better each time i had to do one - the last one made a reference to the top 40 music charts 9 months before the groom was born - making a play on what his mum and dad were getting jiggy too ...
(i'll be honest i choose what best fitted from the charts around that date) there was one song called -
Gimme, gimme, Good loving by crazy elephant
so a quick pun about his mums nickname for his dads little man - the crazy elephant sound effects and a trunk motion high five to the grooms dad which got a good laugh
then lead in to about how curiosity got the better of me as i looked at my parents - and how for me they got busy to -
Chuck Berry and My Ding-a-Ling - which just brought the roof down!!!
lots of things really can make it go well - one i did a A3 ringbound oversize speech booklet - which as i turned the pages over the front of a speaking lecturn revealed to everyone in the audience except the top table - phrases on the back like -
excuse me I'm really nervous - does anyone have spare underpants - that smell isn't really me - I got roped in last minute - I was the stripper at the hen night - I don't even know the guy - I only really know her - like really know her !!!
i knew it went well after i could see the audience straining to see the back of the next sheet - and the confusion on the groom - bride and parents as to why everyone was laughing as i turned each page
think a bit outside the box and have a laugh - take the piss out of him - out of his parents - even her parents if there good sports and take the piss out yourself
- autoflavour0
probably best not to mention
1) Cocaine
2) Prostitutes
3) Male Prostitutes
4) that time you two were drunk and explored your bromance and woke up naked together- or that one time where all 4 of these things were in the same nightautoflavour
- MrAbominable0
* remember to thank the person that spoke before you, and the friends that family that travelled far and wide to be there.
* start with something amusing that sets the stage for your relationship to the groom.
* pull a quote in from somewhere. i used the Velveteen Rabbit and brought the house down a couple of years ago.
*it's ok to have it written down, but it's always better if you refer to it rather than read from it.
remember that very few people like public speaking, so you're in good company.
- display0
Me and the best man have been through ALOT... i wish some of them could have been here today
- err0
I did one for my brother. I made a keynote style presentation. With graphs and charts and diagrams describing my brother and his wife's personalities. It went over pretty well. And I was pretty comfortable with the format.
- teh0
- 74LEO0
Bring a handful of garter belts and call up all the single ladies saying you only want to be fair.
- sine0
my sister married my brother's best friend and business partner. my brother was his best man, and told the story about how they once fought in high school over the same girl... and, obviously, this time he let him have her.
- DaveO0
I want a few one-liners to open up with...
- bogue0
I did it earlier this winter. I had a good speech but I was very nervous about delivering it. Anyways.. mid speech, kind of at the emotional crux... grandma started choking on her dinner. Everybody rushed to help give her the heimlich maneuver. She had to helped by paramedics. Needless to say it kinda killed the mood. I hadn't even pictured it going that badly.
- Ouch.
Thanks, grandma.mikotondria3 - Sharpen your dentures, chew your food and don't ruin my fucking speech.bogue
- was this the pic of the day from the wedding http://o.aolcdn.com/…whatthefunk
- Ouch.
- 74LEO0
Try to man up every time but still gets to me.
- brandelec0
start with a joke
how do you get a nun pregnant?
fuck her
- Wolfboy0
Don't worry about it - the audience is pissed (drunk - UK meaning, not angry) and want to laugh.
When I did it the first thing I did was get a picture of the groom looking terrible and have it blown up to about A1. It's then a reveal visual punchline at the end of your first story. I told the story about how we met for the first time, but you could use how they met each other or something more appropriate to your mate. You just shape it to finish along the lines of 'and when she saw this how could it not be love at first sight' etc.
The friends and family love that kind of shit. Because they're drunk. And will laugh at pretty much anything.