Don't Let the Speeches Ruin the Big Day - Top Tips from the UK's leading wedding speech writer

We've all been to weddings where the best man has said something totally inappropriate or the father of the bride has sobbed into his champagne as he drones on about "losing his daughter".  Well, no one wants the main post-wedding conversation to be about how bad the speeches are, or worse going viral on Youtube. 

Increasingly members of the wedding party are discretely hiring professional speech writers to make sure there are no red faces on the big day. However, most speech-writing services serve up "cut and paste" generic speeches, those in the know are turning to Lawrence Bernstein of www.greatspeechwriting.co.uk who writes weddings speeches for numerous best men, father of the brides and anyone else who needs to make a great impression on the big day. Lawrence spends time really getting to know subject and can even coach on delivery, making sure that the speech not only sound like they've been written by the actual speaker but that they are delivered with panache.

Here are some basic tips with more available from Lawrence at www.greatspeechwriting.co.uk

Father of the bride

Remember to mention the new son in law

Welcome the guests

Keep it short

Managing the nerves

The toast

Groom

Don't spend more time telling everyone how much you love your best man and then forget to mention your bride!

Every wedding audience loves hearing the groom say "my wife and I for the first time", it always raises a cheer.

Bride

Timing- when to make the speech, many brides mistakenly leave their speech to the end of the wedding - don't leave it till everyone is too drunk or half the guests have left

Give your maid of honour/bridesmaid or a trusted friend your speech to look after

Best man

Don't get drunk

Don't relate "you had to be there" stories

Combine humour and sincerity and leave out the lewd jokes

Don't be put off by a heckle

"When it comes to weddings guests rarely remember the flowers, the food or the dress but everyone remembers a great speech and no-one forgets a bad one. There is nothing worse than having to sit through an embarrassing, ill-judged, badly written speech delivered by a drunken best man, rambling groom or an over-emotional father. A professionally written, bespoke speech can transform a cookie cutter wedding into something unique and memorable for all the right reasons", says Lawrence.

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For further information, more details of the top tips for best men and more please contact Caroline Ratner at Caroline Ratner Communications

020 8209 0120, caroline@carolinecomms.com

www.carolineratnercommunications.com

Notes to Editors

Lawrence Bernstein and his team at www.greatspeechwriting.co.uk provide a bespoke speechwriting services from £400 + VAT per speech.

Lawrence started writing best man speeches for friends a few years ago. As more and more friends and friends of friends asked Lawrence, a Cambridge graduate to write speeches for them he realised there was a wider need for personalised, well written speeches. He placed an ad in Private Eye and one enquiry lead to another. Once writing speeches started to become more than a hobby, he gave up a lucrative career in the City and set up Great Speechwriting in 2005, which has been grown rapidly ever since.

Lawrence also writes speeches for professional clients, including CEOs of top FTSE 250 companies, politicians, think tanks, overseas corporations and others including NGOs, charities and international organisations.

For testimonials and quotes please go to http://www.greatspeechwriting.co.uk/samples/