So you found you that your best friend just got engaged and the wedding is a couple of months from now. You are dreading what will come next. You and your best friend have talked about this before and you know he will ask you to be his best man. He was your best man at your wedding. You are all fine with standing up at the wedding.
The thing that you dread though is giving the best man speech. You have never been good at public speaking and just the thought of it makes your palms sweaty. Many a men have been in your shoes and have dreaded giving the best man speeches just like you. Well, do not worry about it because you have time to work on this.
A great way to get started on this and to ease you into giving your speech is to go online. Once you are on there do a search to find best man speeches on YouTube. Youtube is a great source for you for many reasons.
First of all, by watching the videos of real best men giving their real best man speeches you will be able to get different ideas as to what you will want to talk about in your speech. You will see what items were a hit and which topics are a good idea to stay away from. You will be able to see what the right length seems to be and just the tone in general. If you find one that you like you should watch it a few times just to get a feel for it and allow you to visualize yourself giving a best man speech like that.
Another thing that watching the speeches will help you with is to show a different varieties of speeches out there. Some get intricate and go it different stories and jokes, but there are ones that are short sweet and to the point. You will see that you do not have to say a lot to really wow the guests.
The final thing that you will learn from watching these on YouTube is that you will see that people do make mistakes and nothing bad happens. People do get tongue tied at times and you will see that the guests, and especially the bride and groom, will not fault you if you do make a mistake. All you really need to do is just speak from the heart. So, just stop worrying and get on that computer so you can start searching out those best man speeches and getting comfortable.
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