Wedding Grooms Speech
Out of all the weddings I’ve attended, I think about half of the groom speech were written the day before. I got into a big habit of being really friendly with the males at the weddings. These guys are usually so nervous they spill their guts out about everything.
I finally got enough nerves to start questioning the grooms and father of the grooms. It wasn’t like I was creating a journal, or writing a story for the Times, but I was really curious. Actually I probably could write a book on the art of writing the groom speech.
What do you say on your wedding day? It has to be THE groom speech… the BEST groom speech ever, right? Then why did half of the groom wait until the last minute to write it?
The answer was usually the same: they couldn’t get inspired until the last minute. The night before it dawned on them what they would be doing tomorrow, and it reminded them of how much they loved their soon to be wives.
A few of these guys just bought their father / groom speech because they knew what they wanted to say, they just didn’t know how to word it. Didn’t have any speech ideas so to speak They’d edit it to make it their own, and no one could tell, not even I.
Coming up with the grooms speech is more nerve wrecking than the bridal one. Women are just better at that sort of thing.
Just don’t try to be funny. Even if you’re the comedian of the family (because then it’ll be expected). Leave the funny speeches for the best man speech.
