An essential part of giving an entertaining groom speech, is having the ability to hold everyone’s interest and attention. But keeping people interested and riveted on your words is a hard enough task for seasoned speakers, let alone someone (like myself) who finds it absolutely frightening to get up and speak in front of a large group.
Even though it is hard, it can be done – with charm and style. And even if you’re like me (scared as hell of public speaking), there are things you can do to make your wedding speech interesting, riveting and entertaining.
One of the best things to do to make a speech entertaining, is to add humor. The addition of humor can help to lighten the mood, and keep people listening and paying attention. In my own experience, the use of humor also helped to calm my nerves and settle myself into speaking.
If you do plan on using humor, it is important to remember that your wedding is going to be a family event – even though many of your friends will be present. So it’s NOT the time for you to be sharing all your crude bachelor jokes, or locker room jokes. That’s NOT funny – that’s pure DUMB.
The humor that you use in your speech should be tasteful, respectful to your bride, her parents, your parents, and be suitable for children to listen to as well. This is a special day for you, and probably more so for your bride, so are you really prepared to be disrespectful, and upset her by saying inappropriate things?
It’s also important to say that this is NOT an open mike at a comedy club. Everyone is expecting you to share your inner thoughts and feelings about the significance of your commitment to your new wife, how grateful you are to your parents, how thankful you are to her parents etc. Even though humor is an important element in making your speech entertaining, nobody wants to listen to your best 100 one-liners.
To keep your groom’s speech interesting and entertaining, I recommend that you keep it sincere, warm and heartfelt, and sprinkle humor in to help keep the mood lighthearted, fun and relaxed. I found it was best for me to blend humor in about 30-40% of the time.
Of course, we’re all different, and you may feel more comfortable interjecting humor into your own speech more than I did, or maybe less. It’s a personal decision about what’s right for you. I believe the important factor is that you keep your humor appropriate for the occasion. You want your bride to feel special, and you want your guests to have fun, so keeping it clean and respectful is what I recommend.
Writing a groom’s wedding speech isn’t an easy thing, and can be even harder if you are trying to add humor. But it doesn’t have to be. Writing a funny groom speech can become something that is more than just a stressful burden. It all depends on how well you prepare.
If you are finding it difficult to write your own groom speech, and want to know how you can make it as funny and entertaining as possible, then I highly recommend you check out The Groom Wedding Speech Guide. It will show you EXACTLY how to give a killer speech. This guide also gives you practical, professionally written information, speech templates, examples and resources that will greatly increase your chances of creating and delivering the greatest speech imaginable.
All the best with your speech
Baden
