Wedding Speech Jokes & HumorBe Fearless, Flawless and Funny! Deliver your wedding speech like a pro…

So it’s time to sit down and put your wedding speech or wedding toast together, so where do you start? The beginning of course! In order to put this speech together you have to know what to say and when to say it. Knowing when to use wedding speech jokes is just as important as the type of wedding speech jokes that you use in your wedding speech and using them appropriately can be a crucial part of your success.

Let’s face it, finding the right balance between seriousness and humor in a wedding speech can be difficult.  And while being inspirational and meaningful is always appropriate for a father of the bride speech, the truth is everyone enjoys a funny wedding speech.

Balance
We’ve probably all heard a best man speech or a wedding toast where the wedding speech jokes used went just a little too far, maybe even to the point of embarrassment for the bride and/or groom.  This takes you to the complete opposite end of the spectrum compared to the father of bride speech I mentioned earlier.  It’s finding the perfect balance of being inspirational and meaningful as well as humorous that’s going to leave you shining in the spotlight…as long as it’s on you that is.

So what’s the recipe for perfect balance?
There are a number of factors that come in to play when trying to find that perfect balance of seriousness and humor. The first and foremost is going to be your personality.  What type of person are you?  Are you the quirky, practical joker or are you more of the quiet type?  If you’re a daily prankster than people will to be more likely to expect a funny wedding speech out of you.  It should go without saying though, that doesn’t mean that you can’t break out of your shell and crack a few wedding speech jokes even if that’s not who you are.

The type of wedding speech you are delivering is probably going to play a big part in the equation as well.  Like I had mentioned before, a best man speech tends to be the melting pot for wedding speech jokes, but that’s not to say they aren’t appropriate elsewhere, it all depends.

Which brings me to the last factor I’m going to bring up, the overall atmosphere of the wedding/reception.  Conventional wisdom would tell you that the more formal the wedding, the less likely it would be to hear a joke-laden groom wedding speech.  The atmosphere will probably set the tone for what’s appropriate and what’s not as far as wedding speech jokes, but once again it’s going to be a judgment call.