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anybody have to do one of these? I'm thinking of doing mine 'this is your life' stylee. Anybody else see any good speeches?

3 times.  Heckled by the brides mother once, saved by random bloke standing up making a speech before me another time and last time, the joint best man doing 52 minutes after I did 7 made mine look sooooo much better!  People were coming up saying 'good speech, it was really...short'

Me and a mate did one together last year (as joint best men) and we supplemented the speech with some videos and photos on a projector, which worked quite well and meant we could have a break from trying to be funny. Stuck them on Youtube as well. Took us quite a bit of work to get photos from his family and various videos from over the years, which then had to get made it to a professional presentation. Was fun.

Photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXlggXPRbvw

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpBnHhUZFJY

not sure if I can be arsed with using technology, I'll be nervous enough without having to worry if all that will work! good vids though

Just do what Fred did and start crying...

a good way to go is to have people ask you prepared questions regarding the groom.past mishaps,funny incidents etc,etc. you can have the witty responses ready and let them roll as the questions are asked.

The best tip for a best man's speech is to acknowledge every group at the wedding. So make sure there's a gag in there for the family, the mates, the work colleagues, the bride's mates etc. People want to feel included.

The worst best man's speeches are full of in-jokes that only 4 people understand.

say I had slept with the bride before they got together, how do I 'slip that in'?

cheers mate !

Probably not advisable.

Acknowledging everyone is great, at mine i found out each football team that people supported, i then started by doing a final score of all the relevant teams which got people cheering and booing each result. I then took a big risk but managed to pull it off, i claimed that i had asked peoples advice on doing the speech and everyone had told me to look on the net, so i apologised in advance and said a lot of this had come from the net, i then read a made up speech about a fictious couple paul and linda wilson, said things like we first met at school we bonded being the only black kids in the class, the sillier it became the better and ended with the whole room rising to toast paul and linda wilson. :)

:)

You'd had a few beers. And you didn't blub as much as Nickie's dad.

Nick lines from comedians.  1 I forgot to do was Dylan Moran's bit about the way men feel when they fall in love and how men are the romantic ones.  The final line is 'thats how women feel about shoes' if that helps  Its on his Monster cd / live dvd.

Another was about marriage being a bit like the witness protection programme.  Suddenly you've moved house, you're dressed in new clothes and and you're not allowed to see your mates any more.

Wish I could find the Dylan moran line for you.

My best man did this your life and went down quite well.

Best to start off with a joke to break the ice..

that, or some kind of school report - he's a teacher. PE teacher.

I'm torn between doing something simple, and trying to do something really original.

The best speech i saw involved the best man announcing that he had braught the grooms former partner to the wedding and that would people mind if she joined us....to a shocked silence and a massive intake of breath the door opened and a sheep walked in!

Today's been a very emotional day, even the cake is in tiers.



(yes, nicked off Vernon Kay on ff earlier)

Avoid getting married, it's guaranteed to fuck up your relationship.

Sorted.