Going to be a best man

How about the original line of "I promise that this speech won't last any longer than the groom will tonight when he gets back to the hotel."

Just be careful not to over-do it. Long speeches are the worst.

"I demand everyone's undivided attention before dinner here as I have prepared a 45 page long Speech!"


...Please don't produce a long, underwhelming speech. I can't personally stand when the speech maker is taking more than 4 minutes to make their speech. When there are 3 to 4 or more speeches and each one is more than 4 minutes long, it's tiresome for everybody.

To keep that in perspective (^^^^), it really is supposed to be a "Best Man's Toast," but over the years we have made it "Best Man's 'Speech'."

Short, sweet, and funny, with appropriate well-wishes to bride and groom, are what's called for.

GJ

rhythmgj said:

To keep that in perspective (^^^^), it really is supposed to be a "Best Man's Toast," but over the years we have made it "Best Man's 'Speech'."

Short, sweet, and funny, with appropriate well-wishes to bride and groom, are what's called for.

GJ

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I defenitely noticed the changes with this. It started happening in 2008. Prior to 2008 I don't think I ever deejayed a wedding where the speech was more than 90 seconds long from either the Best Man, Father of the Bride, or the Maid of Honor. 90 seconds was about as long as they lasted, and they did a quick toast. In 2008/2009/2010 I started to notice some best man speeches and maid of honor speeches go longer. By 2011 I noticed the majority of speeches were moving into the 3 to 7 minute per speech range. A stark contrast from years prior. As time as marched on it seems Father of Bride speeches have become MUCH LONGER. Best Man and Maid of Honor Speeches are RARELY ever less than 2.5 minutes long, and at least 50% of the time are more than my 4 minute per speech maximum that I'd like to see. I have seen 15 to 20 minute long speeches at weddings, and I think speeches that long need to be prohibited 100% LOL. I did a Asian wedding where the speeches took 43 minutes total...Dinner was held up for 43 minutes while 5 different speeches were given. On the timeline made with the caterer, the bride/groom put down that speeches would only take 10 minutes. ...They were DYING to get dinner served.

In Short...I hate long speeches at weddings. 3 speeches at 2 to 3.5 minutes long should be sufficient, but for some reason a lot of people feel they need to elaborate with stories, and suck the life out of all the guests at the wedding!

Have you ever seen Impractical Jokers? Maybe use their speech...

I don't believe you're writing down a speech for this. You should easily be able to come up with something off the top of your head if this your best friend. Keep it simple and to the point. A couple of jokes that hopefully people will find funny and that's it.

I've been the best man 5 times in my group of friends. And 2 brothers
I'm pretty sure most of them picked me because of the quality of the bachelor parties.

My one friend, who I was not the best man for, said his finance didn't want any scantly clad woman at his bachelor party. We told him we are having a bachelor party for you. You are welcome to come or not. He showed up.

do like my English teacher used to say short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject

It seems every DJ has the same suggestion. Keep it short.
Personally, I would start by mentioning that you have prepared a short toast...

and then roll out a whole pile of that dot-matrix (connected) computer paper....
or plop a whole ream of paper on the table.

But my favorite is an "old Irish toast"....

"May your troubles be as few and as far between.....as my grandfather's teeth"