Best Man Toasts

best man toastsThe best way to get over Best Man Toasts is to approach it with a positive frame of mind. If you happen to be chosen as the best man of a wedding, you need to understand that the groom has selected you because he has confidence in you and thinks that you are the best to perform the role of a best man. It’s needless to say that you just can’t let him down. Rather you should rise up to the occasion and get yourself ready to deliver a perfect best man toast. Top best man toasts require practice, staying away or procrastinating is just not going to help. So, all you need to do is take a long deep breadth and say to yourself, "I'm the best man and I have to deliver the best man toast and I am going to do that in style." Once you do this you would feel a lot more composed and hopefully on your way to deliver a real wonderful best man toast.


Preparing for top best man toasts involves a few steps. I’ll try to explain them in short here –

  1. Get into the “best man” mindset first.  Browse the internet (I can see you are already doing that) for some good best man toast resources including sample best man toasts and go through them.
  2. Copy or write down the portions you like most from those best man toast resources at random. These could be funny one-liners, famous quotations, interesting paragraphs and a couple of sample best man toasts or speeches.
  3. Now that you have got the materials ready, its now your turn to get them rearranged and rewritten to a great best man’s toast. Yes, you need to do some editing job here and there. Add your own content. Add some funny stories to spice up your best man speech.
  4. Best Man Toasts or best man speeches shouldn’t be dragged too long unnecessarily. You should always look to keep it short and sweet. If you aren’t absolutely sure about what you are doing don’t try to get fancy with your speech as well. Just keep it simple and compact. I have seen best men toasting the groom and bride inside 5 – 7 minutes. And they sound great. So, best man toasts need not be longer than 5, 6 or 7 minutes. And with a little practice you can do it perfectly.

All best man toasts are divided into three main parts.

      1. Introducing yourself and thanking the groom for choosing you as the best man
      2. The middle or the main part of your best man’s toast should contain your feelings about the groom. Tell short stories about the groom, some funny moments you shared together. And should you happen to know the bride as well, why not tell something about her too? You can get witty here and a bit naughty if you wish. But make it absolutely sure not to hurt anybody’s feelings. You should look forward to use the resources you collected from the internet.
      3. Conclusion. This is the easiest part. You don’t need to be innovative here. Just follow the other best men’s toasts. Wish the couple a happy married life after you have told that why they should make an ideal couple. And that’s it.

I hope you have now, at least, managed to have an outline on how to prepare for best man toasts. It’s not that hard once you begin to put in some efforts. Do a little planning and practice until you are satisfied. Once you are done with writing up the speech go through the best man toast a couple of times reading it out loudly. You will soon know, whether you are ready to deliver one of the Best Man Toasts ever heard.

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