Wedding Speech

Some people do them before, so the meal can be enjoyed.
Its the best mans job to embarass the groom (tastefully of course), and compliment the bridesmaids. Traditionally the groom thanks the brides parents because they pay for the wedding or contribute a lot to its organisation and have allowed you to take their daughter.
A wedding without speeches would be a little strange in my opinion.

Edit: oh and congratulations!
 
I would suggest

To her parents: "Hahaha, I'm ****ing your daughter!"
To her Bridesmaids: "and chances are, one day, I'll **** one of you"
 
I've done a bestmans speech and it was reasonably sucessful. I talked a little about my relationship with the bride and groom, thanked all the usual people, talked about how they met and the early days of the relationship, a couple of jokes (family suitable) and rounded it off with some conclusion. I wrote it by devising a form/structure. It was quite easy to write the speech once I had composed a structure and I made sure it was not too long and rambleing. It was well received so the planning was worth it. I spent an hour or so parked up on my own in a car park practising reciting it so that I didn't stumble too much when it came to the day. It's probably best to give a heartfelt rather than "witty speech" as everyone has a different sense of humour and funny stories often are not suitable for the entire audience. The speech doesn't need to be long but it is worth practising delivering it.

There are free websites which help you write the speech. Usually the jokes are terrible but they may help you structure it....
 
It depends, is it a good story about her rescuing you from pirates in the middle of the Indian Ocean or does it involve a zombie apocalypse with you two being the last two people on Earth? If not then I'd suggest leaving it out although the story might well delight the older generations there so if you want to be traditional you could add the story.
 
Father of the Bride first (who toasts the bride), Groom (who toasts the bridesmaids), and then the Best Man (on behalf of the bridesmaids, apparently). Then beer.
 
Thanks.

Father of the bride isn't saying anything.

And to top it off, my Best Man's wife is overdue and it looks like the baby will be induced on my wedding day, so he's not going to be there. I have a stand in, but he has no speech - I'm going to ask him to say something, but it will be very short.
 
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