OK – you’ve got a speech to write very soon. Here’s one solution: call us on +44 (0) 207 118 1600 and we’ll write it for you. We work seven days a week and are used to offer last minute speech...
I hope you find these tips useful. We write groom speeches for clients around the world. We can read your first draft and make suggestions on how to improve it, or write it for you from scratch. Here's...
(Please note that this article on public speaking nightmares is relevant all year round, despite the ghoulish videos below!) We all know that standing up to give a speech can frighten the strongest of characters. But the worst public speaking nightmares...
Our friends at Kleenex set us a challenge: Is it possible to calculate how to write the perfect wedding speech? As you can probably guess if you have visited any other page on our site, our first instinct was ‘no’. Great wedding...
So many clients approach us to make their speeches funny, but the key is all about balance. It’s an emotional day, and the very best speeches will sprinkle the lighter stuff with some really touching moments. If your aim is to...
The social event of the year. Apparently, many of Ms Middleton’s relatives are distraught to have been left off the list. The photos will be worth millions and an invitation is, literally, priceless. And rumour (aka Elle Magazine and EOnline) has...
Theo Eze joined us in April. He arrived with some excellent references, a strong CV, a sense of humour and this: Dear Theo, So you’ve spent the last four years on Regent Street rubbing elbows with dossers (sorry, English students). I...
Every year, millions of people celebrate Burns night: an evening of revelry to honour the life and work of the great Robert Burns. And yet, search the internet for tips on crafting a Burns speech, and you’d be surprised how little...
Obituary writing is a fine art. We are exposed to it each day in the newspapers. A well-written obituary covers the facts. It is essentially a mini-biography of the deceased. Factually correct, focusing on the key areas of their life, and...
Written originally for Hitched.co.uk, this article is for anyone giving a wedding speech! You promised yourself you wouldn’t let this happen. Not after last time: the famous ‘Scarborough Speech’. God, what a nightmare that was. Jeremy still doesn’t look you in the eye. But...
We’ve all heard those classic school ‘leavers’ stories. The one about the sixth formers who dismantled the headteacher’s VW and reassembled it on the school roof. Or the 1st XI football team who sprayed indelible messages in weedkiller on the school...
There’s nothing better than some good post-wedding analysis. But what is the juiciest, most anticipated and most memorable part of a wedding? What is the subject most likely to dominate that car journey home? Well, at Great Speech Writing, we decided...
So you’re going to speak at a gay or lesbian wedding. And you’re stuck. Join the club! We receive calls from people in your position on a weekly basis. Some are simply worrying about the things that so many speakers worry...
This short video of a eulogy is given by a granddaughter for her grandmother. It demonstrates how a speech that really matters to a speaker and their audience can go in one or two very different ways. The ‘before’ section covers some important...
Let’s talk about pants. No, not in that sense. Most of us take them for granted. Choosing to go without underwear in the UK tends not to be a financial necessity, and more of a lifestyle choice! But across swathes of...
“Ladies and gentlemen. Good evening. I’ve been so nervous about this moment… …that this is, in fact, the fourth time today I’ve stood up from a warm seat with a damp piece of paper in my hand.” Yup, it’s that old...
Last weekend some friends attending a wedding locally came to stay. They left early on Saturday afternoon and returned, noisily, around half past one on Sunday morning. Over breakfast we heard about the sermon, the bride’s dress, the flowers, the first...
If you’re preparing a speech for an upcoming retirement bash, you are either retiring, or speaking about someone who is. These clearly require different approaches. So firstly, let’s focus on the retiree: You are retiring You’ve been working in the same...
At Great Speech Writing HQ we receive questions about wedding speeches every day of the week. Some crop up more regularly than others. And at the very top of the ‘most asked’ list is the one about groom speech structure. It’s easy...
Dear David, They say that aside from your own wedding, one of the happiest days of your life is the wedding of your own child. Certainly, when my Polly got married last summer, I was on cloud nine. That was until,...
Working in a living, breathing wedding speech hub is great fun. Not least because people from all round the world send us their first drafts to review. This means we have purred in approval at some outstandingly relevant, original and humorous...
Cruncher, I’m chuffed that you agreed to be my Best Man. From the moment we met on that school rugby field many beers ago, you captured (and crunched) a very important part of me to stop me from touching down a...
A wonderful email sent from a thoughtful bride to her fiancé, suggesting just what he should and shouldn’t say in his groom speech on the big day. Thanks for forwarding HP. Snugglepuss, I know you said not to worry, but I’ve noticed...
At the end of summer, a friend of mine got married. We met for a drink a couple of weeks beforehand. The conversation didn’t make it much past her worry-list for the day itself: Would the guests turn up? Would the...
With BBC re-running the ‘wedding’ series of ‘Him and Her’, what better moment for Great Speech Writer Will Noble to offer a crash course on how NOT to write and deliver your wedding speech?! Over to you Will: Just as it’s...
Love. A four-letter word that seeps ubiquitously into songs, drips magic on the silver screen and shoulders the storyline of 500-page Russian novels. Love is all around us – and, as our multibillion pound Valentine industry confirms, it’s here to stay....
[hana-code-insert name=’Social’ /] Thinking about proposing; recently proposed; or just worried about what planning a wedding actually involves? Big or small, at home or in a venue, it’s going to take a lot of organising. When it comes to the wedding speeches we...
The envelope opens. A name is read out. Silence turns into raucous applause. You’ve done it. You’ve won. You can pat yourself on the back and crack open that champagne. Except, ah, hang on a minute. There’s just one final task...
Before reading on, if you are short of time and ideas we can help by writing our office party speech for you! Please call Lawrence on +44 (0)207 118 1600 to discuss the options available. The tree is up, the stockings...
At the core of everything we do is a belief that each speaker, subject and audience is different. And so we don’t believe in templates. However, there are a few things that are expected at every Bar / Batmitzvah. These lists...
Ever seen a brilliant speech crucified because of poor delivery? If your delivery isn’t up to scratch, the content will fall on deaf ears. It won’t be the speech your audience remember, but the way it was given. Here are...
Great Speech Writing can give you lots of advice on how to give a memorable Mother-of-the-Bride speech, but how you apply this will very much depend on your reason for speaking in the first place. All these scenarios require different approaches...
Some people don’t think about writing their Groom, Best Man or Father-of-the-Bride speech until a few weeks, or even days, before the big event. I know – because many of them call me in a last minute panic.
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Great Speech Writing HQ is sadly bereft of Lords a Leaping and French Hens this year. There’s not even a pear tree in sight. So we thought it might be best to stick to our strengths and offer twelve...
We contemplated growing moustaches for ‘Movember’ – but we ‘Photoshoped’ Lawrence and the results were just too sinister. So we decided to do something for Charity in a way no one else can: £100 to Charity if we can’t improve your business pitch...
You’re right. The Best Man Speech is the hardest of the lot. And it gets a whole lot trickier when it becomes a job-share. You may think there’s safety in numbers, but not when it comes to delivering a joint Best...
The Olympics are almost here. You may be losing sleep about Paula Radcliff’s foot or Dwain Chambers’ urine sample, but there are others with more pressing issues to address.
Because irrespective of the athletics, the wedding season continues, with a daunting...
We had a very successful Present with Impact course on Thursday. It was, as ever, good fun, but also fruitful and hugely impactful for those attending...
So your daughter is about to flee the nest. The date is set and the venue is booked. You’ve been tapped for a hefty contribution towards the planning of the day. You’re keeping lips sealed about the cost of roses versus...
One of the most common questions I’m asked by Best Men is what proportion of their speech should be sincere and what proportion funny. The answer obviously depends very much on the individual but I generally advise a 75/25 balance in...
