Five Magical Tricks to Conjure a Great Wedding Speech
For many, the most intimidating part of speech writing is facing the blank page that starts the process. Yes, a successful speech is always composed before and not delivered off-the-cuff. These are the top five ways to help get the creative juices flowing.
Tips for Making a Wedding Speech
1. Put Pen To Paper!
As any fourth grader can tell you, the teacher’s first instruction is to first create the rough draft. This first draft will capture all of those wild ideas, with spelling and grammar thrown to the wind. Give yourself something to work with, no matter how disconnected it seems.
2. Organize Your Thoughts
From this collection of ideas, begin to organize the thoughts into some sort of logical sequence, being careful not to discard any ideas yet. Think about how other speeches seem to progress, when the jokes are interjected, when the solemn moments are, and perhaps how even the worst speeches can be made powerful with a simple conclusion.
3. Hone Your Ideas
When this draft has been edited once, you can begin to sharpen the ideas into a final copy. Now is the time to pick the best phrase, the best memory, and the best way of expressing the ideas you want the bride and groom and all of their guests to carry away with them.
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4. Rehearse
With the finalized copy of the speech in hand, it is now time to turn into an actor and stand and deliver to your new best friend, the mirror. You may be surprised by how much your delivery improves as you repeat the speech over and over again, not only with tone and timing, but with stance, gestures, and facial expressions. Practice really does make perfect.
5. The Dry Run
The best rehearsal will be a dry run in front of other people – friends or family. People can give you feedback and allow you to judge reactions. Even if you think something is funny, it actually may not be, or it may be susceptible to misinterpretation. These five quick steps should help you conjure, almost as if by magic, a heartfelt and memorable wedding day speech.
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