6 full speeches
Joint wedding speech examples for two speakers
Two people sharing one speech can be the best toast of the night or a polite argument at the microphone. These full speeches are written for two voices, with who says which line, so you can see how the handoffs work.
Write it together, once
Two separate speeches stapled together run long and repeat each other. Write one speech and split the lines.
Hand off often
Short turns keep it moving. Long solo stretches leave the other person standing there with nothing to do.
Keep the same length
Two speakers still get one slot. Aim for the length of a single speech, not double.
The speeches
- Best Man · Funny · about 3.5 minutesJoint Best Man Speech for Two Best MenTwo best men, a childhood friend and a coworker, who barely knew each other before the wedding, giving one speech together at a two-groom wedding“Xavi: Hi, everyone. I'm Xavi. Conrad and I go back to second grade, when we sat next to each other on the number 14 bus. Or I did. He usually missed it. Jarrah: And I'm Jarrah. I've sat next to Conrad at work for six years.”
- Father of the Groom · Heartfelt · about 3.5 minutesFather of the Groom Speech, Given TogetherThe groom's father and mother giving one speech together, alternating paragraphs, each with a different half of the same story“Armand: Good evening. I'm Armand, Bruno's father, and this is Esperanza, his mother. We're doing this together because in thirty years we have never once agreed on how a story about Bruno goes, and we decided you should hear both versions. Esperanza: Bruno talked late.”
- Maid of Honor · Funny · about 3.5 minutesJoint Speech From Two Maids of HonorTwo maids of honor, the bride's sister and her college best friend, give one speech together and keep competing over who knows the bride better“Seren: Hi, everyone. I'm Seren, Yara's sister. Neve: And I'm Neve, Yara's best friend from college. Seren: We're both maids of honor. Yara could not choose between us, which is fine. It was an easy choice, and she made the wrong one. Neve: We agreed to share this speech fairly.”
- The Couple · Short · about 2 minutesCouple's Thank-You Speech for a Small WeddingThe couple thanks all ten guests at a small backyard wedding by name, each for the specific thing they did to make the day happen.“Roscoe: We're twelve people in a backyard, so we're going to go around it once. Hedvig, it's your backyard. Thank you for saying yes before we'd finished asking, and for mowing it twice this week. Ariadne: The chairs came out of my dad's garage on Thursday.”
- The Couple · Heartfelt · about 3 minutesJoint Thank-You Speech From the CoupleThe couple speaks together, alternating lines, to thank their parents and friends and to tell one story each about the other“Raffi: Good evening, everyone. We decided to do this together because every time one of us tried to write it alone, we ended up asking the other one what we actually thought. Lulu: First, thank you for coming. Some of you drove four hours.”
- The Couple · Funny · about 3.5 minutesJoint Wedding Speech From the CoupleThe couple speaks together, trading paragraphs, and cannot agree on whether they first met at a laundromat or a birthday dinner.“Leander: Hi, everyone. We're doing this together because we were told one speech from the couple is plenty, and we couldn't agree on who should give it. This is a theme. Katarina: Thank you all for being here.”
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