Best Man speech, not all advice is good advice

The internet is awash with tips, tricks, hints and secret formulas to make your best man speech the most amazingly drop dead all time success in the whole history of weddings. Which is great, the only thing is, the internet isn’t that great sometimes at deciding just who gets the appropriate advice. This really matters when it comes to best man speeches, because there is a huge difference between a best man speech made in America, and one made in the UK or Australia.

I have recently read what claimed to be the most amazing advice writing your best man speech, which is amazing if you live the other side of the Atlantic. Best man speeches in America are a very different beast. They have much less humor, much more sentiment, tend to be quite a bit shorter and focus on the couple rather than the groom. So, as a British or Aussie best man, you should be really wary of any article that informs you to keep it super short, forget comedy and focus on the bride as much as the groom. This is categorically not what a British best man speech is about.

A British best man speech seeks to celebrate the groom in a really funny, inclusive and entertaining way. It is absolutely NOT an exercise in public humiliation, but the comedy is there for a really good reason: to balance the sentiment. I read an article recently

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