Great Wedding Speech Delivery
The most important thing to do in order to ensure great delivery of your wedding speech is to relax. This is easier said than done. Good posture does wonders for your delivery. Stand up straight, put your shoulders back and make eye contact with your audience as you are speaking. You will look calm and confident, even if you don’t feel it.
If you are talking about individuals, look at them while you are speaking. Look at your audience as much as possible when you are giving your wedding speech. This will engage your audience and seeing their reactions to your wedding speech will boost your confidence. Even if you plan to have your wedding speech in front of you, look up from it as often as you can. Your wedding speech will have natural pauses so use these times to engage with your audience.
Stand Up Comedian?
Most people are not blessed with natural comedic talent. Delivering one liners and telling a funny story in a way that gets the most laughs takes practice. Watching stand up comedians performing is a great way to pick up tips about delivery and comic timing to use in your wedding speech.
The worst thing a speaker can do is to rush and not allow their audience time to take in a story or laugh at a joke. If you speak too quickly your audience will be using all their concentration on keeping up with what you are saying and they won’t have time to take it all in. Pausing after a joke or story is a very subtle way of indicating to your audience that a reaction from them is expected. So subtle, they probably won’t notice, we’re so used to it from watching other performers and speakers.
Enjoy Your Wedding Speech!
You may have been worrying for months about delivering your wedding speech. Even seasoned public speakers get stage fright so speaking in front of family and friends on such an important day is bound to evoke some nervous feelings.
Remember to enjoy your wedding speech. The audience are completely on your side and they will listen to your sentiments and laugh at your jokes. Just remember to speak slowly and clearly so your audience can enjoy it too.
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