The Topics You Should Avoid In Your Speech At All Costs

Stay away from making a fool of the groom and yourself

Wedding organizers and disc jockeys know to schedule the best man’s performance as early in the evening as possible for one very good reason: to limit the possibility for the speech to be influenced by the flow of alcohol. The most significant best man speech advice anyone can give you is to be sober when your moment arrives. This way, your internal editing functions are still intact and you’ll run less of a risk of embarrassing not only yourself, but the bride and groom as well.

Best Man Speech Tips

The urge to entertain a crowd of friends and semi-strangers can be an overwhelming prospect, so you’ll want to take the mike with a set of note cards in hand. If you stray from your notes and outline, you could well be heading into dangerous waters. Remember that not only are your buddies in the audience, but so is the brides ninety year old grandmother with a heart condition. If you start telling that story about when you and the groom were in Tijuana back in college, you could be responsible for causing and old woman to have a heart attack.

Topics to Avoid at All Costs

The most important best man speech tips to pay attention to are the ones that explicitly recommend you not bring up certain topics. You may feel it is your responsibility to warm up the crowd, but it it’s not. Your job is to recount a heartwarming anecdote about how the bride had changed your best friend’s life for the better and how she is his perfect one. The last topic you want to breach, even in comparison, is the list of ex-girlfriends, even in comparison. If you do, you can bet your best friend will be hearing about your speech for a long time to come, and not in a good way.

Everyone knows that boys will be boys, and in the course of growing up some may have done a few stupid things that are best left to grow mold in the history books. If they were illegal, your silence is even more appreciated. Those moments of poor decision should not be fodder for your best man speech.

Keeping these gems of best man speech advice in the back of your head will save you and the wedding party a great deal of grief in the years to follow.

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You might also like to read our other article about using humor in your speech, ‘To Joke Or Not To Joke’.

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