For a Groom Wedding Speech, What is Appropriate?  You Don’t Want Your Groom Wedding Speech to Offend – but to Uplift

At most of the weddings that I’d been to, in the groom’s wedding toast, there is usually a little bit of humor involved, just to lighten things up a bit.  The funny groom wedding toasts are, for me, the most memorable.

So, in thinking about my own wedding speech, I was in trouble, because I wasn’t then or even now very funny – not sense of comedic timing at all.  So I started looking around for funny, respectful, yet relevant stories that could be used – and let me tell you, it was quite a search.

I had finally put together some funny things to say and I practice in the mirror for hours – just to work on the delivery – something that I suggest you do as well if comedy is not your strong suit.

I did pretty well with the comedy stuff – people chucked and even laughed – so I guess that it was a success.  Here are some of my observations that may help you out…

The use of the humor really seemed to capture the audience’s attention and engaged in the speech.  I used three jokes – one at the beginning, one in the middle of all the serious acknowledgment stuff and then one at the end to kind of wrap things up – the effect was that it added some variety to the speech.  Let’s face it, people don’t like to be bored and they like a little humor – so give them what they want, right?