Writing your first maid of honor speech can be difficult if you’re not used to speech writing and public speaking.

Now while the following example may help you, I recommend that you don’t copy it word for word.

Instead, use it to grab ideas from so that you can craft your own speech.

Now here’s the sample speech that I created just for this website and is similar to the one I gave at my friend’s wedding last Summer.

Sample Maid of Honor Speech

“Hello everyone!

For all of you out there that don’t know me, I am _______, the sister/friend of the bride.  I hope that all of you here today are as excited for these two as I am and I want to personally thank all of you for coming to witness their special day.”

This is a solid introduction.  Nothing fancy, nothing original.  I do stress, however, that if you have the creative edge to be original and write a great wedding speech like none other, then do it!’

The key to making a memorable maid of honor speech is to write one unlike any other.  Creativity is the key to being remembered.

Let’s move on to another sample of the body of the speech.

“My dearest friend/sister, I want you to know that you are beyond beautiful today.

I am so very thankful to be apart of this celebration of your new life.

Thank you for giving me your love throughout our life and for sharing all of these years with me.

Though we may have fought, argued, wrestled, pulled hair and more, it was all out of love for each other.

I can’t promise that we’ll never fight again, but I will try to control myself more now that you’ve got a husband to defend you (crowd giggles).”

Ok, so I got a little carried away there, but this is the idea that you need to have.

Laughter is very addicting and when you can strike that emotion into people, they can’t help but feel emotionally connected to your words.

This is key to delivering a great wedding speech.  If you can tap into the crowds emotions, you will have excellent maid of honor speeches that your friends and family will remember for years to come.

Do not spend too much time creating humor.  You want to show how much you love the bride and to do that, you must think about special times you two had together.

Think of WHY you two are such good friends.  If the bride is your sister, then talk about how thankful you are for being her sister.  Let her know WHY you love her and HOW much she means to you.

Think of and write down several adventures you two had together and how they helped deepen your friendship and love.

You need to ask yourself WHY you two are close and what helped form this bond.

More Speech Help?

If you’re looking for more examples and not necessarily how to write a speech, I’ve been a fan of Belinda for awhile now as I got help from her when I had to write my speech.

You may have noticed the book image on the right side of my website when you first came here.

Her book has 25 speech examples and templates along with advice for writing and giving a good speech.  If fear is your concern, then I really think you’ll like her book.

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-You’ll learn the correct way to structure a wedding speech so that it flows well and sounds professional.

-You’re going to learn how to speak without feeling nervous.

-Public speaking is one of the biggest fears that people have next to death and this book will teach you how to combat these fears so that you’ll never be scared of speaking in front of crowds ever again.

-You’ll get access to plenty of sample wedding speeches and toasts that you can grab and use to reshape for your own.

-You’ll also learn how to come up with an endless amount of topics to speak about.  If thinking of what to say is your problem, then this book will teach you how to come up with plenty of things to talk about.

With the knowledge you’ll gain from this book, I strongly believe you’ll be confident to write and give a great maid of honor speech without the fear of speaking.

That’s it for today and I hope I’ve been able to help you out!

Sarah

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