The Ten Sins of a Best Man Speech

Posted by Gareth Berry

October 17, 2008

Finally! - what not to say… with all the help in the world people could still get it wrong by doing one of the ten worst best man speeches you’ll ever hear.

as an example:

2. Negative speech
Negativity has no place at a wedding. They are joyous occasions, so don’t try and bring the mood down with a negative speech. In fact, you’re speech should not have any negativity in it at all. But so you know what a negative speech might look like, here’s an example of what not to say.
“Unfortunately I have been asked to say a few words tonight. I didn’t really want to say anything so didn’t prepare anything in advance. But here goes… The wedding ceremony was nice, although some air conditioning or an open window would have been nice. I could have sworn it was 100 degrees in there. But all the same, I enjoyed the ceremony and I’m sure you all did too. I thought it was funny that when John first dated Jane, he told me that he wouldn’t be interested in marrying her, but nevertheless, here we are today.”