The Clueless Best Man Guide
If you are usually just a guest in weddings, and then suddenly, you were asked by your best friend or brother to be the best man in his wedding, it is highly likely that initially, you will be elated, and then it will hit you.
You will feel scared and pressured because you have no idea what you are supposed to do and then you will feel a bit lost with this responsibility.
Actually, the main responsibility of a best man is that he is supposed to give a best man speech.
Now, if you really are totally clueless on what a best man speech is, the speech is usually given during the reception of a wedding, right after the main ceremony and while the guests are sitting on their places, waiting for the food to be served and sipping their champagne or banging their champagne glasses to make the newlyweds kiss each other.
If you are the type of person who likes to talk and loves to be the center of attention, this will be a piece of cake for you.
That is, if you know how to write speeches.
But, if you are the type of person who would rather eat a whole live chicken than speak in front of a live audience, then this will not be a walk in the park.
In writing a toast, you may want to consider reading some best man\'s speech sample on the internet or wedding magazines.
Sometimes, magazines whose target audience is men would also have some best man\'s speech sample in their articles.
Again, notice that the suggestion is for you to just read these articles.
You are not advised to memorize them nor even use them in your toast as that will just make your speech feel like a regurgitated declamation piece.
The goal in reading a best man\'s speech sample is for you to know what are the basic points that you can follow in writing a speech for your best friend's or your brother's special occasion.
Notice the flow of the sample toast that you read, most of them will start by breaking the ice with light humor, possibly an anecdote about the couple.
Others break the ice through canned jokes that others may have already heard.
You may want to avoid old jokes as this will just illicit forced laughter from the audience.
Or worse, uncomfortable silence.
Best to stick to funny real life stories than gurgling old jokes about marriage.
Remember that the key in writing your beset man speech is that this is all about the bride and the groom.
Not about you being nominated as the next best orator of the century, and it is also not about impressing all the single and good looking bridesmaids.
You will feel scared and pressured because you have no idea what you are supposed to do and then you will feel a bit lost with this responsibility.
Actually, the main responsibility of a best man is that he is supposed to give a best man speech.
Now, if you really are totally clueless on what a best man speech is, the speech is usually given during the reception of a wedding, right after the main ceremony and while the guests are sitting on their places, waiting for the food to be served and sipping their champagne or banging their champagne glasses to make the newlyweds kiss each other.
If you are the type of person who likes to talk and loves to be the center of attention, this will be a piece of cake for you.
That is, if you know how to write speeches.
But, if you are the type of person who would rather eat a whole live chicken than speak in front of a live audience, then this will not be a walk in the park.
In writing a toast, you may want to consider reading some best man\'s speech sample on the internet or wedding magazines.
Sometimes, magazines whose target audience is men would also have some best man\'s speech sample in their articles.
Again, notice that the suggestion is for you to just read these articles.
You are not advised to memorize them nor even use them in your toast as that will just make your speech feel like a regurgitated declamation piece.
The goal in reading a best man\'s speech sample is for you to know what are the basic points that you can follow in writing a speech for your best friend's or your brother's special occasion.
Notice the flow of the sample toast that you read, most of them will start by breaking the ice with light humor, possibly an anecdote about the couple.
Others break the ice through canned jokes that others may have already heard.
You may want to avoid old jokes as this will just illicit forced laughter from the audience.
Or worse, uncomfortable silence.
Best to stick to funny real life stories than gurgling old jokes about marriage.
Remember that the key in writing your beset man speech is that this is all about the bride and the groom.
Not about you being nominated as the next best orator of the century, and it is also not about impressing all the single and good looking bridesmaids.
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