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There is a tendency, when in light conversation with friends, to declare that your own family is odd, can lapse into the dysfunctional, and compromises of characters who wouldn’t look out of place in some sort of Channel 4 documentary. This could be…

It's a sad fact of life, that by the time you stand up to make your father of the bride speech there are going to be some people who aren’t there to celebrate with you. Nothing shines a light on to difficult family situations like a wedding, an…

If you have been made best man, chances are the minute you were asked, and then accepted your body went into anaphylactic shock at the prospect of having to make a best man speech.  Nobody sensible likes the idea of public speaking and with the…

I’ve always worked on the principle that it’s better to do something well once, rather than have a few, less proficient stabs at it. Marriage and bungee jumping are two cases in point – nothing would be more unpleasant than being splattered on to so…

Best man speech jokes go back a long way. Ever since people decided it was a great idea to get married, there has been somebody, usually a disenfranchised man in his later youthful years, that wants to celebrate the occasion with ‘comedy’. I use tha…

Whilst very few people relish the idea of public speaking…make that none...it seems that wedding speeches provide the perfect storm when it comes to talking out loud in front of other people. Firstly, there’s a requirement to be funny. Regardless o…

I’ve been writing wedding speeches for quite a long time now, and in all the years I’ve been doing it, I’ve never once spoken to a client who’s actually been looking forward to it. We all accept that speaking in public is one of the greatest fears o…

Whenever I talk to clients, they are usually like to emphasis just how much they don’t enjoy public speaking, and how much they really would like this speech to be as short and sweet as possible. I totally understand those emotions -  I always…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it can’t have escaped your notice that Artificial Intelligence has fully manifested itself in the mainstream. Yes, we’ve had it in our lives for years, but nobody really appreciates the AI function behind how…

  Introduction As a wedding Master of Ceremonies (MC), you're not just the host: you're the pulse of the celebration. Your role is vast, from ensuring the smooth flow of the ceremony to injecting energy into the festivities and making sure ev…

The last time I counted, grooms have on average about 2 million things to organise for the big day, and that’s in no small way because they want to introduce a granular level of detail, that makes Operation Barbarossa, look like an afternoon hike. T…

 I have been writing wedding speeches for a long time now, and I can’t ever remember having a conversation with someone who informed me how excited and enthusiastic they were to be speaking in front of a room full of people. Public speaking is…