I always knew that when my fiance and I decided to get married I would have to write a bride wedding speech, but I never knew how hard to write that speech was going to be! To be honest I even considered not to give a bridal speech and just play the demure wife. But the truth is that I always new I was going to make a speech, but I just left it for weeks and weeks before I acknowledged that I was going to have to get down to it and actually write the thing.

So some early advice from me is to write your speech early, and then you can enjoy all the fun of the lead up. Getting married can be stressful enough without adding to that stress!

When you first start thinking about your bridal speech it can seem like a really daunting challenge. After all, no one likes speaking in public, I know I don’t, but to do it in front of your closest family, friends and new in-laws on your own wedding day is just nerve wracking. I wanted to be fighting back tears of joy on the day not tears because I had made a fool of myself.

As the big day drew closer I tried to think of a bride wedding speech that would be inspirational, charming, hilarious and captured all the love and emotion of the day, and how I truly felt about my special man and it just wasn’t coming to me. Then I tried the inspirational approach of just writing down the things that popped into my head and hoping there would be some gems amongst them – I actually came up with random thoughts on the wedding, but nothing on the wedding toast lol.

Trust me there are more efficient ways to plan a bridal wedding toast, but I’ve got to be honest that at least this got me started rather than waiting for the perfect speech to somehow descend from the skies.

Eventually I started using speech prompts and guides and I soon started to jot down little bits of information about my fiance and bridal party, along with other special people I wanted to mention. When we first met, when I knew he was the one, how long they’ve been together, what makes my man so special and how I knew we would be together for the rest of our lives. It really helped me to put into words just his love has meant to my my life and what a joyous day this was.

In the early stages I found it’s best not to worry about the trying to write the complete speech, or the order or spending hours trying to come up with the perfect joke or the perfect expression of my love. The biggest block to getting the perfect wedding speech is never actually starting to write it! So by jotting down my thoughts I was already over the first major hurdle for my bride wedding speech.

Now isn’t it time to actually start yours