best mans speech

liverpoollad12

Hey lads I'm best man at a wedding soon and trying to start on the speech. Want to play a practical joke on the day, nothing too serious - something like the key joke when you get people from the crowd to bring up keys to the grooms apartment. Anybody any suggestions? Cheers.

Mellio

Not one for a practical joke but defo a great idea for the best man without having to do too much of a speech.

My brother was best man at my wedding and just to say my brother and foraml speaking dont work well unless he is slagging someone then he knows exactly what to say.

Anyway he got flusterred on the wedding day and panicked so instead of having to say something meaningful and funny he went around the room to every table and got one person from each table to say a few words.

I thought it was a good move on his behalf and provided a number of things:

• Gave people at the wedding a chance to say something on the big day formally who you may not have got to speak to.
• We got it all recorded on camera for the wedding video
• we captured people on our wedding video whom we may never have had if he didint do that.

Sorry its not a funny idea but one I thought was useful if your not one for standing up doing public speaking like that.


Good Luck I hope it all goes well.

jonnyfingers

I'd recommend not to do a practical joke unless you really think the bride and groom, and everyone else at the wedding, are the type of people who would love it. I've seen the "return the keys" one done on numerous occasions and most of the time it only ever got a chuckle, and mostly confused looks from the older crowd! The best one was when all the girls had given back their keys an 80 year old aunt of the bride got up and returned one too! The look on the groom's face was priceless!

But instead of a practical joke I would recommend a semi-risque joke at the start. If done well it immediately breaks the ice and getting a laugh early certainly puts you at ease. It should achieve what a practical joke would do, that is get a laugh and embarrass the groom! When I was best man for my brother I opened with the line "a wise man once told me that the best man's speech should last about as long as it takes the groom to make love". I paused for a beat, then thanked everyone and promptly sat down! I know it's an old line but it did go down very well. The groom loved it and my Dad loved it even more strangely!

I did made sure the rest of the speech had its heartfelt moments, and that's important to remember, but that opener kicked it off nicely on that occasion.

tinkerbell

The key thing is just so not appropriate for a wedding. Anything like that could be taken up as insulting to the bride and groom and you would not be popular on the day. I think say a few heartfelt words, not some silly practical joke.

MrTsSnickers

What's the "key thing"?

tinkerbell

MrTsSnickers wrote: »

What's the "key thing"?

Why can't you read the thread and you'll find the answer?

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tinkerbell wrote: »

Why can't you read the thread and you'll find the answer?

read the thread still dont get it....

MrTsSnickers

"something like the key joke when you get people from the crowd to bring up keys to the grooms apartment". That's not clear to me.

By the by, I'm perfectly capable of reading a whopping four posts. Is it necessary to be snarky, I believe it says in many of the fora charters to essentially, not be an as$hole.

mikemac1

I don't understand the key joke either

redved

As I remember the joke, the Best Mans says that as the Groom is now a married man, he only has eyes for his wife. Therefore any of his former partners who have keys to his room can they please return them to the top table. A string of ladies get up to return the key including an elderly Aunt and hilarity ensues

Its actually a better joke than described above but thats the gist of it!!

mal1

'I've got to say that my family are all so happy that John has finally found Mary...she's fantastic.....It's such a relief.....I mean you should have met his last girlfriend.............. She was Melancholy, body like a melon face like a collie'

paulbok

You need to be very careful with a risque joke, I made a comment in a speech about the groom playing the bass guitar, about him plucking his four string every evening. The room went silent for a bit.

What went down a bit better was setting up the groomsman who read out some cards. I slipped in a dummy card that wished the couple all the best etc, and was signed from Ann Farquin, Tommy Farquin and the whole Farquin family.
He'd even read the cards in advance to himself but didn't get it until he read it out loud. Too late.

keep it more Brendan Grace than Frankie Boyle.

Sleepy

A friends brother got the bride to place her hand on the table, then the groom to place his hand over hers.

Both were expecting one of those photo of the rings moments as the Best man invited people to take photos of the last time his brother would ever have the upper hand...

Silly but it worked quite nicely.

tricky@

paulbok wrote: »

What went down a bit better was setting up the groomsman who read out some cards. I slipped in a dummy card that wished the couple all the best etc, and was signed from Ann Farquin, Tommy Farquin and the whole Farquin family.
He'd even read the cards in advance to himself but didn't get it until he read it out loud. Too late.

Brilliant...simple but brilliant