A Little Info About Free Wedding Speech Samples

Posted by Patrick John on September 14, 2009

Are you one of those unfortunates who sweat and stammer and become undone when asked to stand up in front of a crowd and say something? What about at a wedding, when your good friend is getting married and you have been invited to “say a few words” at the reception? Same reaction? Well, here’s good news—-first, it’s not the end of the world; and second, there are lots of free wedding speech samples out there for the taking—–all you have to do is look.

Truly, if you are honest in what you want to say to the wedding couple and their families and friends, and you are telling the truth; then there is no reason to be sick or unsettled about speaking at the reception. You just want to voice your feelings to them and who cares if 400 people are listening to you. But if you are of the burgeoning throng of ” oh my God, I will pass out if I have to get up and speak in front of all those people” folks, then go the tried and true route that all the “scaredy-cats” use and look for free wedding speech samples that someone else has already created.

Get over the fact that you are like everyone else when it comes to speaking in public—-namely that annihilation by a bus is more welcome——and go to the Internet to start your search for something to say to the wedding couple. You’ll be amazed just how much traffic there is to these sites that offer free wedding speech samples and a lot of them are complete little speeches where you can use them as is; or there are some that are outlines designed so you can put in your own words and just use them as a template.

There is another option for those of you who must use a template, or are just too nervous to try to wing it without a little help; you can find sites on the internet that deal with wedding paraphernalia and some of these sites have blogs or places to post helpful tidbits for others, and there you can find free wedding speech samples, or whole speeches—-that have been used by other folks. These are there for the taking and you can use them as they are, or use just parts of them to write your own speech. Lots of folks find these bits and pieces very helpful in putting together a speech.

You will find as you are searching these sites that have free wedding speech samples, that there is just about anything you would need to put together a speech. The offerings range from simple toasts, to longer speeches to family or friends, little asides to grandmothers, jokes and funny stories, and even poetry. Depending on the ambient mood of the wedding you are going to, formal or not; the mood will determine what you want to include in your speech, or how “funny” or “jokesy” you want to be. Some of the offerings can give you a real good head start on your own speech.

Once you find some good free wedding speech samples that you can work with, then start molding them into something that sounds like you wrote it and use your sample as a template. Remember the best wedding speeches are those that do not sound contrived, they sound sincere and from the heart. Keep it simple, keep it clean—never be vulgar—give thanks to those that you feel deserve it, and just go with the flow. Most of all, wish the happy couple well and mean it. You will do just fine.

When you go to give your awaited wedding speech, just go with the flow and remember that you are surrounded by friends and family for the most part, who all know you—–so, just be you, laugh a little, tell a joke or a funny story, don’t let your nerves undo you—-you are not in front of a firing squad. All you are doing is giving your best wishes to the newly married couple in your own words, in your own inimitable way; and so what if there happens to be a couple of hundred people in the room also.

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