Looking for Fun Speech Ideas at the last minute?

You aren't the only one!

It felt like you had all the time in the world so you left it.. and left it.... and then all of a sudden it is on you and you haven't got any fun speech ideas written down, let alone a plan of action in place!

Well don't fret; here are some tips to help you with some fun speech ideas thrown in to lighten the mood on the day.

INTRODUCTION

First you should break the ice by starting with a joke or something funny about the day.. Was he/she late? Did the wedding car not start?

Maybe you know something you shouldn't about the preparations!?... careful though!

Introduce yourself (not everyone will know who you are) and thank the groom for letting you be the best man and make sure you pass a compliment to the bride on behalf of the maids of honour/bridesmaids.

Thank the hosts and the parents of the bride for the day (often these are one and the same) and if you didn't use all your best bits at the beginning then now is a good time to have another joke about what has happened on the lead up to the big day.

THE ROASTING

How do you know the groom?

Now is a good time for any funny stories of how you met, school days, and how you were first introduced to his new bride.

Tell some stories about how they were when they first met each other - address them directly and maybe tease them a bit, make them squirm (!) but not too much!

Now you can go all out with roasting the groom.

This is your moment to shine and probably the reason he chose you as Best Man in the first place! This needs lots of laughter, usually at the expense of the Groom.

Tell as many funny stories and anecdotes of his past as you can - try and sort out some props before hand to make this even funnier!

School photos and old scout badges etc are particularly good for this!

Maybe even his old uniform or his sport kit... bet he can't fit into it now!

Follow this up with more jokes about his working life, first job, hobbies that he has had and sporting incidents.

If you have photos of any of these then even better!!

Remember with all this though you don't want to be too offensive or rude.

After all it is a family affair and just because you two find it funny it doesn't mean that they all will!

You don't want to start him off on a bad foot with the Mother-In-Law now do you!

CONCLUSION

The roasting can be seen as the main reason you are there but there is also a sincere reason you have been picked.

Maybe you could give them some advice for their lives together from this point on. Any thoughts you have or tips if you have been through this day yourself can help put minds at rest (although it's a bit late for that now isn't it!) and is a nice sincere way of finishing the speech.

If it is your place to do it, and the bride's Father is not going to, now can be the time to raise your glass to the bride and groom and ask everyone to join you in wishing them the very best in their new lives together.

Phew! Now it's time to make a fool of yourself on the dance floor!

I hope this has helped, but if you are after some more help and fun speech ideas then you can also try the links below.

• Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
• A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
• Marriage requires a person to prepare 4 types of "Rings": Engagement Ring Wedding Ring, Suffering, Enduring
• They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either.
• You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
• Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
• Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
• Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way

• At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, 'Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?' The other replied, 'Yes, I am, I married the wrong man.'
• After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, 'You know, I was a fool when I married you.' The husband replied, 'Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice.'
• A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted' . Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.'
• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
• I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always.
• Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.
• I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months - I don't like to interrupt her.
• Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
• My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got two girlfriends.
• A husband said to his wife, 'No, I don't hate your relatives. In fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine.'
• A man meets a genie. The genie tells him he can have whatever he wants, provided that his mother-in-law gets double. The man thinks for a moment and then says, 'OK, give me a million dollars and beat me half to death.'
• A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did.
• The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once

6 Million Dollar Question

Married for many years, Paul had been ignored by his wife, Liz, for some days, so eventually he confronted her with what he perceived as the problem. 'Come on Liz, admit it,' he ranted, 'You only married me because my granddad left me $6 million, didn't you?' 'You really are silly, Paul,' retorted Liz loudly, 'I couldn't care less who left it to you.'

Celibacy...

Relationships can be very puzzling as we all know. Take celibacy, for example; this can be a choice, or a condition imposed by environmental factors. While attending a special Marriage Awareness Weekend in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, Nicky and Victoria listened to the facilitator intone, 'It is so very important that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.' He turned to the men and asked, 'Can you each name your wife's favourite flower?' Nicky leaned over, touched Victoria's arm gently and whispered, 'Self raising, isn't it?' Thus began Nicky's life of celibacy.