I knew immediately that when my best friend decided to get married I would be desperately seeking funny maid of honor speeches I could emulate, but I never realized how difficult it would be!  To tell the truth, I spent most of my time procrastinating before I realized I had to get down to it and actually write the thing.

My first advice would simply be: Don’t make the same mistake I did!  Plan ahead, don’t simply look for someone else’s speech to copy.

There is no doubt that when you first start thinking about wedding reception speeches it can seem like a really difficult task.  After all, there is the best man speech, bride/groom speech, that you may be worried about living up to… and standing up and making a speech is pretty nerve-wracking alone!

As the wedding approached I did my best to think of the most charming, witty, caring maid of honor speech and it just wasn’t coming to me.  What I eventually did is just take some time to write some of the thoughts and memories that came into my head on a small piece of paper I carried around with me.

There are probably better ways to come up with a maid of honor speech, but I figured this was a great way to start getting some ideas down on paper.

I will admit, it was quite difficult at first.  But when I started using speech guides and prompts I started writing down little pieces of information about myself and Stacey.  Things like where we met, how long we’ve known each other, our best memories, how Stacey met her husband – things like that.  It really helped pull things together for me.

I think that it is important at this stage not to worry about the order of the content, or any jokes you plan on including.  The biggest hurdle to getting the perfect wedding speech is actually sitting down to write it!  So simply by making notes on my thoughts I was already over the  hurtle for joining the ranks of the best funny maid of honor toasts!