Free Maid of Honor Speeches
From LoveToKnow Weddings
While it can be quite flattering to be asked to be maid of honor, it can also be a lot of work, which is where free maid of honor speeches can come in handy. Even if you don’t want to use a free speech as your official toast, it can provide just the inspiration you need to help you write your own when you’re mentally blocked from the pre-wedding stress.
Free Maid of Honor Speeches Resources
There are literally hundreds of maid of honor speeches available online. Some of the best sites that have them for free are:
- Maid of Honor Advice – This site has speeches you can cater to the bride, whether she be your sister, your close friend, your cousin or just a casual acquaintance. It also has a list of tips that can help you give a good speech, even if you have stage fright.
- Aragia.com – This site has five sweet yet humorous speeches that are good for maids of honor who are very close with the bride. Each is approximately five minutes long.
- Speech Topics Help – While this site doesn’t offer free speeches, it does give you lots of ideas to use in writing your own speech. For example, it has 17 hints you can use to determine what you should include.
- Presentation Helper – This site has only one sample speech, but it is a good one. It is designed to follow the best man’s speech and is very sweet and sentimental.
- Frugal Bride – Instead of providing stock speeches, this website has three real speeches that maids of honor actually gave at weddings. You can use them to see how to personalize your speech to really fit the couple you are honoring.
Speech Writing Tips
Once you’ve looked at several free maid of honor speeches, it’s time to adapt one to make it your own or write a new one from scratch. Here are some things to remember when you begin your draft:
- Introduce yourself and state your relationship to the bride and how long you’ve known her. Some of the guests may not have met you before.
- Start in the past and end in the future. Begin speaking of your history with her and end with a mention of her bright future with her new husband.
- Keep your speech general enough that everyone present will “get” it. If you veer too much towards inside jokes, only a few of the guests will laugh and the others will just look confused.
- Don’t mention religion, politics, or other controversial topics, unless they are imperative to toasting the couple, such as if they met at the Democratic National Convention.
- Throw in a little humor, even at a formal wedding. This is a happy occasion and it is okay to solicit some laughs. However, do not think of your speech as a stand-up comedy routine.
- Make your speech less than 8 minutes long. It will be easier for you to remember, and it will leave enough time for others to toast the couple as well.
- Add a thank you at the end, and of course, invite everyone to lift their glasses.
Additional Advice
Once you’ve written your speech, practice it a few times before you have to give it at the wedding. If you’re more comfortable with it, this can help banish some of the jitters. Don’t worry about memorizing it completely. It’s perfectly fine to use note cards or even a full sheet of paper. Most likely, you will not be the only one doing so.
The most important part of your speech is the end, since this is what the guests are most likely to remember the longest. Always finish on a positive note, wishing the couple a long and happy future together.
It can be nerve wracking to be asked to make a wedding speech, but after checking out different free maid of honor speeches you can become inspired to share your thoughts and congratulations with the happy couple in a comfortable and meaningful way.
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