Twenty years of friendship, one shot at the mic
The stories her family have never heard, told the way only her best friend can.
Why this speech is hard, and how we make it easy
The maid of honour speech is the newest fixture in the UK running order, which means less tradition to lean on, and more freedom to be brilliant. You hold the stories her family have never heard. The trick is choosing the right ones and landing the sincere bit without the whole room dissolving. That's what we do.
- 01Open with who you are and how long you've been friends, then a hook: a line or mini-story that gets the first laugh.
- 02Two or three stories that show who she really is. Funny is good, but at least one should show her heart.
- 03Talk about the couple: what her partner has brought to her life, from the best friend's point of view.
- 04Speak to her directly for a moment. This is the line people will cry at.
- 05Close with a toast to the couple.
This is the exact structure your speech is written to, filled with your stories, in your tone.
Your speech, three steps away
Answer the questions
About ten minutes, and it costs nothing: who you are, who it is about, your best stories, and the tone you want. No writing skill needed, just the truth.
Read how it opens
Your speech gets written from those answers straight away. You land on a private page showing the real opening, not a sample and not somebody else's.
Unlock the rest
If it sounds like you, pay and the whole thing appears, plus two more complete drafts with a different feel and two free tweaks.
Three ways to get it written
Back in minutes
Everything I know about wedding speeches, built into the brief the AI writes from.
- Answer about ten minutes of questions, free
- See your real opening before you decide anything
- Unlock it for three complete drafts, each with a different feel
- Two free tweaks if a draft is not quite right
- A private link and email delivery, yours to keep
Back within 48 hours
The AI writes the draft, then I go through it line by line before you ever see it.
- Written by AI from your own stories, and I say so
- I read it out loud, so you know it works said and not just read
- I cut anything that will land badly in that particular room
- Names, dates and details checked against what you told me
- One round of changes once you have read it
Back within a week
A proper conversation, then a speech written from scratch. No AI at any stage of this one.
- A call first, about 45 minutes, where I get the stories out of you
- I write the whole thing myself, with no AI at any point
- Drafts back and forth until you are happy standing up with it
- Notes on delivery: where to pause, what to cut if the day overruns
- One person, named, accountable for your speech
Maid of Honour speech questions
Is a maid of honour speech traditional in the UK?
How is it different from a best man speech?
Guides for the maid of honour speech
- Where the line is in a wedding speech
Two questions decide whether a best man joke lands or lands badly: who does it cost, and is the couple laughing or bracing. Danger zones and repairs.
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- A maid of honour speech when you are not the funny one
Warmth lands harder than comedy at a wedding. Four structures for a maid of honour speech that works without jokes, and how to follow a best man who got laughs.
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- Wedding speech nerves, and the ten minutes before
Wedding speech nerves are physical, and so are the fixes. What to do with your hands, why the second drink costs you, and a countdown for the last ten minutes.
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