When it comes to the speeches on the big day, sometimes you need to consider the bride and maid of honor speeches together.

For me and the bride, we didn’t want to spoil the surprise by writing out speeches together. But we did think that it might be a good idea to have a chat and figure out the direction we wanted our wedding speeches to go in.

Deciding on Who Says What

When it comes to any kind of speech, whether the brides wedding speeches or the groom wedding speech, it can help to get your stories straight and make sure that every single speech isn’t repeating the other. This is why discussing bride and maid of honor wedding speech ideas with your other half is a good idea.

Not all bride and maid of honor will do separate speeches. Perhaps only one of you is doing a speech, or maybe you even want to address it together! If you still haven’t decided then I recommend you have a good discussion before moving onto the next steps.

Coming Up With the Perfect Speeches

Once you’ve decided it’s a good idea to talk to the bride and ask whether she’s preparing a speech herself. Chances are that you will both have a few of the same ideas.

One option is to decide to cover different topics. Or the same topics like how the bride and groom got together – but from different points of view. This can make for exciting, funny, yet still poignant maid of honor wedding speeches that your guests will love!

Finding bride and maid of honor wedding speech ideas together isn’t always done, but I think sharing some ideas – while still keeping the speeches private until the big day – can be really inspiration. Better still, check out some speech examples to really help your speech be what you want it to be!

Unfortunately the maid of honor wedding speech isn’t a completely free piece of writing – it is there as a way to make sure you don’t leave anyone out. It took me a long time to realize, but basically it’s about keeping everyone happy to ensure your wedding day goes perfectly!

Thanking The Right People

One of the first things I incorporated into my maid of honor speech was to thank just about anyone who had got me to where I was on that wedding day. Whether that was the bride, the groom, everyone who gave me advice – I made sure to thank them. And don’t forget the bride’s wedding speech! She will often have something to say about you, so it pays to have something positive to say about her. Always thank her first and foremost before continuing with the rest of the speech.

Mentioning Her Family

I thought it would be best to start my maid of honor speech with a story about how I met the beautiful bride. This always goes down well, and is a great crowd-pleaser for all of those who have made such an effort to be there on your big day.

Next, I will try to add in anecdotes or praise of her family. After all, this is an important occasion and probably the best chance to show the special people in your life what they mean to you. Even if they didn’t directly help with the wedding, they still played an important part in their life as a whole.

Remember, the wedding day is about the love for the bride and groom, but it’s also about having family and friends around. Even though I was really nervous about my maid of honor wedding speech, it didn’t take me long to realize that it isn’t too hard to please everybody if you’re careful!

I always knew that when my best friend decided to get married I would have to write a maid of honor wedding speech, but I never knew how important that speech was going to be! The truth is that I left it for weeks and weeks before I even realized that I was going to have to get down to it and actually write the thing.

My advice about that? Don’t make the same mistake I did. Plan ahead if you can!

When you first start thinking about your maid of honor speech it can seem like a really challenging task. After all, there is already so much going into standing up in front of everyone and saying those vows, standing up again and making a speech is pretty nerve-wracking!

As the date got closer and closer I tried to think of an inspirational, yet charming and hilarious groom’s wedding speech and it just wasn’t coming to me. So what I eventually decided to do was to sit down and just write some of the thoughts that popped into my head.

Now, believe me when I say that there are more efficient ways to plan a maid of honor wedding toast, but this was great for kick starting my ideas.

At first it was difficult, but when I started using speech prompts and guides I soon started to jot down little bits of information about me and the bride. Where we met, how long we’ve been together, some of our most memorable moments – things like that. It really helped me to put into words the story of our relationship and what we’ve been through to get where we are now.

At this stage I think it’s best not to worry about the order or the content of what you’re writing (or any wedding speech jokes!) The biggest block to getting the perfect wedding speech is never actually starting to write it! So by jotting down my thoughts I was already over the first major hurdle for my maid of honor wedding speech.