Hi, it’s Sarah here…

If you’re not one of my regular readers, let me quickly tell you a little about myself… And then I’ll tell you how I wrote my maid of honor speeches… Even if you’ve never written a speech before, you’ll learn how just as I did.

If you’d rather skip my story and see what helped me, Click Here…

Okay… So throughout all of my years growing up going through school and even some college, I never once was enjoyed writing and presenting speeches.  It all started when I was younger before my teenage years.  We had to write and present speeches in class with the idea that we’d get used to public speaking…

For most people, this works well.  For me however, it only made my fear of public speaking and speech presenting that much greater… Standing up and speaking in front of people is simply something that I just do not like to do.  I’m naturally a shy person and talking in front of groups of people is something I did not enjoy doing…

Fast Forward 15 Years Later….

I’m 27 years old now and I recently was the maid of honor for my best friend’s wedding.  It was an absolute blast and I had a great time!  But leading up to the wedding wasn’t fun… Besides all of the planning and parties I was organizing, my biggest struggle was writing the maid of honor speech…

Just the thought that I would have to stand up in front of hundreds of people and talk about my best friend scared me to death.

Most people would do absolutely fine in this type of scenario.  But for me, speaking in public almost brings me to my knees… I was counting down the days to the wedding and the speech I’d have to give.  My fear clouded my memory to the point where I couldn’t even get words on paper… It wasn’t looking good at all for me.

I have not had to speak in public since my days in college years ago.  And even then, it was super difficult for me to do and I would beg my professors after classes to let me skip the speaking part… They would look at me like I some kind of freak!  One professor told me that if I don’t get used to public speaking, I’m not going to get far in life…

Here’s the Problem…

See, it’s now 2010 and the age we live in is completely different to the ones our parents grew up in… they’re ‘old school’ as I like to say.  But my professor had a good point… If I can’t learn to speak in public, how am I going to succeed in jobs that require speaking roles?  Or if I end up meeting an amazing guy at some random place?  Will I just freeze up and lose him for good?  I knew I had to get this problem fixed.

And this is the exact reason that I started going out to book stores and buying a bunch of books on public speaking and speech writing.  I only had a few weeks to get this down because the wedding was approaching faster than ever… Each day seemed to go by faster and faster.

What Happened…

The truth was that most of these books were ok… I learned a few things here and there but I had a greater need at hand.  I needed to write a maid of honor speech within the next few days… I thought I was screwed until I did some searching online and found a downloadable ebook - Exclusive Maid of Honor Speeches by Belinda Hamilton.

>>  Click here if you want to check out Belinda’s website…

The best part is, because it’s an ebook, the authors tend to update them quite often and you get the updates for free… something you can’t get with outdated books that sit on the shelf.

I figured what the heck I’ve got nothing else to lose, bought Belinda’s book, and downloaded it immediately onto my laptop…If her ebook wouldn’t suit my needs, I could always request a refund.

Because it’s an ebook, I decided to print it out instead of stare at my computer screen for an hour… This way I was able to highlight the important parts that I liked, write notes and save the pages that I needed when I was writing my maid of honor speech.

The Conclusion…

I only had a few days before the wedding to get my speech done… After spending an hour reading through the ebook, I was surprised at how many tricks and secrets there are to make public speaking an easy and fun experience.

The bad part is that you still need to use your brain and think about all of the fun times you had with your bride to be.  But it’s really not that bad since it’s your best friend… the book gave me a lot of great tips on how to write the speech using all of the memories and fun times that I had with my best friend.

And the speech turned out to be great!  The crowd was roaring with laughter at times and I brought the bride to tears.  The speech was only about 4 minutes long but I’m still very proud of it seeing how it’s the first time I was confident about speaking in public.

So, I hope this information has helped you and if you can’t seem to get your maid of honor speech going, then I think you should check out the wedding speech site.

>>  Click here to get more information on “Exclusive Maid of Honor Speeches”

Talk to you all soon,

Sarah

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