They say hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I guess I never really knew just how important grooms speeches were until my fiancé and I began obsessively planning the ‘BIG’ day! If the truth be known, I just kept putting it off until a week before the wedding, when I finally woke up and realised that grooms speeches were unavoidable. I started to panic big time.
The moral to this story? Don’t make the same mistake I did. Plan ahead if you can!
When you start out with your groom speach, the task ahead may appear insurmountable. After all, there is already so much going into standing up in front of everyone and saying those vows, standing up again and making a speech is pretty nerve-wracking! Click here to learn more: Groom Speaches.
As the date got closer and closer I tried to think of an inspirational, yet charming and hilarious groom’s wedding speech and it just wasn’t coming to me. So what I eventually decided to do was to sit down and just write some of the thoughts that popped into my head.
Now, believe me when I say that there are more efficient ways to plan a groom wedding toast, but this was great for kick starting my ideas.
It was then that I began to consider other solutions like speech guides and prompts to structure the speech as a story, jotting down information on me and my bride. Where we met, how long we’ve been together, some of our most memorable moments – things like that. It really helped me to put into words the story of our relationship and what we’ve been through to get where we are now.
At this stage I think it’s best not to worry about the order or the content of what you’re writing (or any wedding speech jokes!). The biggest block to getting the perfect wedding speech is never actually starting to write it! So by jotting down my thoughts I was already over the first major hurdle for my groom wedding speech. Click here if you would like to learn how to write a great groom speech: Groom Speaches.
