The following tips can all be aids to help you perfect your ability to deliver a speech:

Tip 1: Forget yourself

The ability to give a successful wedding speech comes mainly from focussing less on yourself and more on the audience. If you can forget yourself and focus on what the audience is getting from you your speech will be far more successful. Rehearsing your speech will help you reach this state by working through all the self conscious moments and potentially awkward transitions.

Tip 2: Listen to the Audience

Sounds strange, I know. But actually listening to your audience can improve your performance and you will show charisma. When you stand and say "hello" wait, genuinely pause for a response and even in that short moment you will bond with the audience. Successful connection with the audience comes from many small moments like this.

Tip 3: Conquer your Fear by Visualising Success

This will not work with the truly terrified but for the rest this can be the difference between an average and excellent performance. It needs to be practised, in advanced, as it does take time - but it works! Think of the wedding day and create a scenario - to which you repeatedly return - of yourself succeeding brilliantly.

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