The Making of A Successful Groom Speech

It’s your wedding day. The wedding ceremony is over and it was flawless. Everything went fine. Now you are at the wedding reception and right now waiting for your turn to give your groom speech. The father of the bride is in the last phase his speech and you have to be there in a few minutes. You obviously would like your speech to be flawless again. You know that if you can deliver the speech in style and with confidence there would be wide spread appreciation but if you fail, I don’t want to scare you, it would be nothing less than a disaster.

The clandestine of lettering a first-rate groom speech is in the fact that how you plan and prepare for it. But it’s always easier said than done as a groom also have the whole wedding to plan. It’s your responsibility to organize the service and the reception, select those all important people who contribute to make a wedding successful, organize a wonderful honeymoon … so on and so forth.

Regardless of having to take care of such huge responsibilities it is essential that you keep some time aside to prepare for your speech. A groom speech requires that you do some research before you actually put pen on paper and then practice it several times until you have the confidence that it’s the groom speech you always wanted to give on your wedding day.

By the way, do remember that you are giving the groom speech on behalf of your newly married wife also. So, it would be better to say “my wife and I” whenever and wherever it applies. It’s a wonderful traditional groom speech etiquette that you need to follow.

In your speech you need to personally thank the both your and the bride’s parents and everybody who contributed towards the wedding arrangements. Traditionally you are also expected to extend your tanks as well as present gifts to the best man, the groomsmen, the bridesmaids and others in the bridal party. It’s needless to say that no groom speech is complete without welcoming and thanking the guests who joined you at the wedding reception not just to give company but also o wish the two of you a very successful marriage.

There are several other stuffs you need to mention in your groom speech like appreciating the father of the bride’s speech and assuring him and your mother-in-law that you will take good care of their daughter … and wrapping up your speech with a wonderful wedding toast.

You can scroll down and read the posts already published about groom speeches to get the complete idea.

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A Few More Words on Groom Speech

For long you had intricacy expressing your feelings to your girlfriend. Now that finally you have decided to tie the knot, it's one of your duties to express your love and loyalty to your bride and that too in front of more than hundred guests. Until now you have enjoyed and often laughed at the grooms when they fumbled while giving their groom speeches. Now it's your turn to prepare and deliver a perfect groom speech. And since you found this blog on groom speeches I assume that you realized that your reputation is at stake. I have seen smart guys faltering while delivering wedding speeches. Good for you that you are aware of that and try to find a solution. This blog is all about groom speeches and if you scroll down you will find several posts on how to write, prepare and deliver wonderful groom speeches. If you understand why a groom fails to deliver even a simplest of groom speeches you know what you need to make sure so that you don't. Once you learn the basics it wouldn't be that complicated to find the words you always wanted to say to praise your newlywed bride.

While brainstorming different groom speech ideas I suggest you begin by remembering how you met your girlfriend, the bride now, for the first time. However, the groom speech is not about the bride alone so don't get carried away while paying tribute to her. In fact you should begin the speech by greeting the guests and thanking almost everybody for something or the other. Keep your speech short, express your gratitude to both sets of parents, share a couple of nice anecdotes, don't forget to complement the bridesmaids, the groomsmen including the best man and for God's sake don't try to be fancy if you don't know what you are doing …. And that's it. Do that and you will do justice with your groom speech. By the way, as I have already written in my earlier posts on groom speech, it will work out better for you if you first draft the entire speech first - an outline or blueprint on which you can build the final speech.

My next blog post will be on duties and responsibilities of a groom. So, come back again after a few days. However, if your wedding day is prior to that you can check this resource on groom speeches and toasts to get more help on the topic.

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Groom Speech and other Wedding Speeches

What are the major speeches? And what do they have in common?

There are four major wedding speeches viz.

Best Man Speech
Groom Speech
Father of the Bride Speech
Maid of Honor Speech

Apart from that there are other wedding speeches like the bride speech, father of the groom speech, mother of the groom speech so on and so forth.

All wedding speeches have characteristics that are common. Wedding speeches are almost always addresses either the bride or the groom or both. All wedding speeches begin with a introduction and often end with a wedding toast. You will every wedding speaker sharing anecdotes during his or her speech. The best man wants to give a funny best man speech and so does the groom and searches for appropriate groom speech jokes.

But apart from those similarities every wedding speech is different from the other. A groom wedding speech is obviously not the same as the best man speech or father of the bride speech. The groom speech is formal and straight forward in nature until it reaches the stage where the groom pays tribute to his bride.

The bottom line is you should also study other wedding speeches also if you want to make your groom speech really special. The wedding reception party livens up only when all the wedding speeches are in harmony with one another. Just imagine how you would feel if your wonderful groom speech is followed by the best man’s lackluster speech. It might not be bad for you as you delivered a pretty decent speech but it’s definitely bad for the mood of the evening.

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