Wedding speeches
Someone should tell you the truth about your speech before the wedding does.
ToastDoctor is for best men, maids of honor, and parents who have to stand up with a microphone and would rather not wing it. Paste your draft and get an honest read of how it lands, free. Or start with a guide if the page is still blank.
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Watch your speech play to six wedding guests.
Mom tears up. Grandpa gets lost. The best friend loses it. The boss checks his phone. Line by line, before the wedding does it for real.
Free tools
Everything for the speech, and the toasts.
- Blank pageWrite a DraftAnswer six questions about the couple and get a first draft with the right shape, built from your answers and nothing else.Write my first draft
- The week beforeRehearsal ModeA teleprompter at wedding pace and a pace check that shows which lines you rush. Nothing is uploaded.Practice out loud
- Just for funSpeech RemixYour toast as a pirate captain, a sports announcer, or a nature documentary narrator. Six voices.Remix a speech
- Reception gameSpeech BingoA printable card for every guest, filled with the moments every round of toasts has. No two alike.Make the cards
- Reception gameSpeech Over/UnderGuests predict the toasts: how long the best man goes, whether anyone cries. With an answer sheet for the emcee.Make the cards
- GradedMovie Wedding SpeechesFourteen famous speeches from film and TV, graded by the same rules as yours, with the lesson each one teaches.See the leaderboard
Start with a guide
- Maid of Honor · 10 min readMaid of Honor Speech for Your Sister (With 2 Full Examples)A sister has the most material and the most to lose by using all of it. How to pick the one memory, welcome her partner, and toast her, with two full speeches.
- Rehearsal Dinner · 8 min readRehearsal Dinner Toast: What to Say (With Examples)Shorter and looser than a wedding speech: one to two minutes, one true thing, a welcome, a glass raised. Who speaks, what to say, and full examples.
- Father of the Bride · 13 min readHow to Write a Father of the Bride Speech (With Examples)Four jobs: welcome everyone, say one true thing about your daughter, welcome the person she married, raise a glass. The structure, what to skip, and two full speeches.
- Best Man · 8 min readFunny Best Man Speech Openers That Actually WorkOpeners that get a real laugh come from something specific about the groom, not a joke about speeches. Six shapes, twenty fill-in lines, and the ones to retire.
- The Couple · 11 min readHow to Write a Groom Speech (Structure and 2 Examples)A groom speech is a thank-you with one moment of real feeling. The structure that keeps thanks short and gives your partner the part that matters, with two full speeches.
- All Speakers · 9 min readHow Long Should a Wedding Speech Be? Length by RoleThree to five minutes, and four is the sweet spot. The right length for best man, maid of honor, parents, and the couple in minutes and words, plus how to time yours.
Wedding toasts around the world
How to say cheers, who speaks, and what to expect at weddings in 42 countries. In Denmark guests tap their glasses and the couple has to kiss. In Georgia there are twenty toasts before dessert. Useful if you’re the guest from somewhere else, and fun if you’re not.
See all countriesWhat the speech check does
Paste your draft. Get a grade, the lines that will land, the ones that will get a polite smile, anything that will make the room go quiet, and the three fixes that matter most. It judges the writing, never the people in it.
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