Recovery Lines For Best Man Speeches

Recovery Lines For Best Man Speeches

If in the unlikely event that your Best Man speech is not going down too well or worse if you forget your lines then you need to have a few recovery lines available to rescue the speech. While either scenario seems dreadful if you think on your feet then your speech will be rescued and confidence will be restored.

Scenario 1 – Joke is poorly-received

Rescue line – Look at the Groomsmen and say “thats the last time I’m using one of  your jokes again guys.”

Scenario 2 – You forget your lines

Rescue line -Take out a copy of your speech from your pocket, take a few seconds to compose yourself and then hold your speech up for all to see and say something witty like “as you can see I wasn’t expecting to speak today.”

Scenario 3- Someone heckles you.

Rescue line1- (if you know the person) “John I thought alcoholics were meant to be anonymous.”

Rescue line2- (if you dont know the person) “That’s okay pal, I remember my first beer too.”

Each of these scenarios are extremely unlikely but bear these examples in mind should you need to recover at any stage of your speech. My own great Best Man speeches (all 21 of them! ) continue to fly off the shelves, metaphorically speaking, and will ensure that you wont have to face any of the scenarios above.

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