Our friends at Weddingly set us a new task! To help their members write a truly original wedding speech. It’s not easy – this is, after all, the internet age. And any great new joke or angle tends to be available for cut and paste in minutes. If you’ve ever been to a wedding where …
Some do it with Valium, others with Pinot. There are those who breathe deeply and those who rehearse in suit and tie. A minority conquer those pre-wedding speech nerves; the rest suffer throughout the process. What they all have in common, is a lack of confidence in their material. Particularly the jokes. Best men, grooms and fathers of the bride …
The temperature plummets but hearts are warming from Canvey Island to Canada! Meghan and Harry will be hard to escape for the next few months. Which puts even more pressure on the Prince to do something he hates. Here is our Press Release on the most high profile groom speech of 2018. William, Charles, Mr …
(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 are often incredibly easy to cure. The cause is typically mixing up the means …
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 speeches have to be personal, relevant, original and magical. There’s no template. You can’t …
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 suppose there’s nothing more I can teach you about writing then? Possibly. But speech …