Maid of Honour Speeches Tips

I remember that when I first realised that I would have to give a maid of honor speech I was absolutlely terrified.  I wasn’t used to giving any speeches let alone maid of honour speeches and I was so scared about the thought of having to stand up to give a wedding speech.

Buy yourself a notebook

I remember that the first thing I did was to go out and buy a small notebook.  This notebook was to be the bulding block to how I created the wonderful wedding speech that so many complimented me on later.  I sat down and began to jot down a few memories of the bride.  We had been to school together and so we had known each other for many years and been very good friends for all of them.  Therefore, I found it really easy to write down in my wedding notebook the memories that I had of the bride.  Some of these memories were funny, some were quite sad.  I must admit that I did cry a few times thinking back to those times but I wanted to capture some of those sentimental touches to my maid of honor wedding speech.  I think that this was one of the secrets to creating a ‘beautiful speech’ (as described by one of the guests).

I actually carried the notebook around with me everywhere I went.  Whenever I had a few spare minutes I would try to remember something relevant or something that we shared and write this in my book.  Also, if anything popped into my mind that I thought would help my maid of honor speech.

My maid of honour speech was beginning to take shape.  Obviously everyone’s maid of honour speeches will be different but I think that it is helpful to approach your maid of honor speech in the same way I did, i.e by creating a notebook of ideas.

Other Wedding Day Speeches

I think that it is important to think about the other wedding toasts that will be made on the wedding day and the order of those speeches.  For example, remember that there will be father of the bride speech and a groom speech.  Of course there will also be a funny best man speech as well.  Most are funny but I guess not all will be.  You will probably fit in at some point between these although the exact place where you will give your wedding toast is perhaps best decided by the bride and groom.  If you think there will be something obvious that either the groom, best man or father of the bride will say then perhaps it’s best to leave that out of your maid of honour speeches.

I was asked to be a maid of honour for my friend Claire’s wedding.  I didn’t know where to begin because I hadn’t heard any maid of honour speeches before.  In fact I must admit that when I first realised that I had to give a maid of honor speech it came as a bit of a shock actually.  I didn’t really know what the maid of honour duties were or that giving a speech would be part of them.

Where Do You Start Planning Your Maid of Honour Wedding Speeches?

I didn’t know where to start with my maid fo honor toast.  It seemed like there was lots of information on the internet and in books about the grooms wedding speech but not for the wedding toast that I had to give.  That was one of the reasons I created this site to help other maid of honurs in the same position I was in.  Therefore, as you have found this site you should not have the same problem that I had with finding useful information on maid of honor wedding speeches.  I hope that you will find the information here really useful to you and that you too will create a beautiful maid of honor toast for the bride.