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A Maid Of Honor Speech: What Makes One?

A marriage ceremony should be one of great festivity and high flying moods; everything should be cheerful, jolly and jovial if you're going to have a memorable day. So all the way from the church to the celebration hall the mood is ecstatic and vibrant; it's important for it to stay this way and your maid of honor speech contributes to the maintenance of this mood. There's nothing really complicated about a maid of honor speech, it's mostly about being good natured and positive.

Introduce yourself by name and let the gathering know who you are, where you came from and how well you know the bride and bridegroom. Be short and to the point if you want to attract the focus of those gathered. If you do not do this people will just remember you as that girl.

Be grateful by expressing your thanks for being selected to be a maid of honor. Once this is done you can get into further details about the marriage taking place. This is where you have to be impersonal and focus on a universal delivery.

As you may have noticed most, if not all, of the speeches that are delivered at wedding celebrations are distinctly positive. This characteristic means that your maid of honor speech has to be one of reflecting on good moments in your lives together. Doing this does not require much, a day before the celebration just take a paper and pen and list the major highlights of your friendship with the bride. Once you begin to reflect be sure to draw a connection between the memories and the marriage. In a lot of instances this has the effect of telling the bride that her life was well lived, thus allowing her to slip into marriage without any thoughts of having unfinished business.

Humor is always a good ingredient to any situation. It lights up the dying spirits of those who are bored to death and it makes everyone feel good about what their doing, especially for the couple. The jokes you swing need to have a place in the wedding environment and should not be out of place. What works particularly well is making fun of the bride with content you know she is okay with. It is important to be careful not to get carried away. If your tongue slips the wrong way you might end up provoking the couple and ruining their day. Stay away from the ultra-sensitive.

With marriage being an event with implications for the future it would be good to predict a future of hope; prosperity and fertility. Nothing beats optimism in a world of negativity.

Be broad minded enough to reflect on the future. Assert positive images of the future being filled with fertility; prosperity and love. This undoubtedly makes the bride want to be in the marriage more than before, if she was harboring thoughts of abandoning the union then this will hold her back.

But remember this: you must wish the couple well for their marriage. A few words of hope for a good marriage are uplifting and they make the couple certain that things will work out. Another way to achieve a good ending is by narrating a poem that you wrote. The intimacy of poems adds a romantic and positive feel that beats any stage performance. Getting quotes on marriage and commitment is a sure-fire way of sealing a good speech.