Best Man Wedding Toast Tips

The first time I was asked to be a best man was in my sisters wedding 9 years ago.  Since it was my first time I didn’t know that I would have to give a best man toast at the reception.  I’d be kidding if I told you I wasn’t nervous.  Getting up and speaking in front of all those people scared the hell out of me.  So I started asking every one I know what I should talk about, what should I say.

The best advice I got was from my dad.  He said that I first needed to decide what kind of best man speech I wanted to give.  Did I want it to be funny or sentimental? Or both?  He said I could be just like everyone else and get up there and tell some lame jokes about my sister and her new husband and that would do fine, but he thought that since this was her special day why not try do give a wedding toast that every one would remember for a long time to come.

So i started writing down some ideas and thoughts about marriage, my sister, her soon to be husband, our family and anything else I could think of.  I had a list of about 25 things I could talk about so I felt confident that I could get up there and give the best man toast of the century.

Man was I wrong.  Having all those items on my list only confused me and I could not remember for the life of me what I wanted to say about each.  I know it was just my sisters wedding, but I felt like I was in front of a whole stadium full of people and I lost what I wanted to say.  In the end it was probably not the most memorable wedding toast ever given but I think I was able to get some nice things out about the happy couple and I didn’t embarrass myself to much.

If there is anything that I hope you take from this site is that most of us need to prepare more then a few notes or try to come up with a wedding speech the night before.  Trust me I know…that happened to me at my best friends wedding a few years ago.  But I’ll save that story for another day.