BEST MAN SPEECH
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- WhiteFace0
Bump! I've got to be best man in 4 weeks, help!!!
- 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.
- 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.
- brandelec0
start with a joke
how do you get a nun pregnant?
fuck her
- 74LEO0
Try to man up every time but still gets to me.
- teh0
- Beeswax0
Watch Sherlock 3rd season 2nd episode. I just did.
- 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.
- 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
- DaveO0
I want a few one-liners to open up with...
- 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
- 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.
- 74LEO0
Bring a handful of garter belts and call up all the single ladies saying you only want to be fair.
- display0
Me and the best man have been through ALOT... i wish some of them could have been here today
- teh0
Man speech? For what?
- GeorgesIV0
go wedding,
best man dead,
no potato now only famine
- ok_not_ok0
doing one this summer for a best friend...his second marriage lol