The Essential Wedding Speech Package
A great wedding speech is an event game changer.
Yet most wedding speakers copy the same dull, one-size-fits-all speech templates they find on-line filled with generic sentiments, clichés and canned lines everyone has heard. Boring.
We’ll work together one-to-one to shock, surprise and thrill everyone with a killer original speech that is funny, warm and unforgettable.
NO phony artificial intelligence (AI)… just real human creativity to make your speech completely unique and authentic.
This is a fast, fun and easy process to focus the years of memories and feelings you have bouncing around in your head right now about the bride and groom.
My Two Goals For You
I’ve had the same two goals for each of the thousands of speakers I’ve helped nail it over the last 20 years.
First, I want you to hear, “That was the best wedding speech I’ve ever heard!” And you will.
And second, I want this to be one of the best experiences of your life— because it should be. Giving a wedding speech is a great honor and gift to the bride and groom.
What You’ll Get
• In addition to many years of speechwriting experience my real value to you is perspective. I’ll help you step back, make sense of your memories and pull out the essentials for this speech.
• You get a fun, warm, 100% original 7- to 9-minute speech written in your voice and personality.
• Audiences love to be surprised and have fun. So your speech will be tight, punchy, fun and warm with unexpected twists and turns.
• No canned jokes, tired clichés, empty platitudes or phony B.S. like you hear in every other wedding speech.
• Unlimited editing to ensure every word is exactly what you to say.
• I’ll format your speech on note cards you can have printed locally.
How It Works
1. After booking your speech you’ll immediately receive an order confirmation then a separate email from me with a few quick questions about you, the bride and groom to get us get started.
2. I’ll create a discussion guide for you with a few simple but deeper questions about the bride, groom and your relationship. These questions are going to have you thinking about the bride and groom in a way you haven’t before so we can get at the heart of values, character and personality of the bride and groom through your eyes.
3. After you complete your guide, I'll schedule a call with you to go a little deeper on some of the information. Our conversation will be totally casual and take at least an hour. In addition to gathering information, I want to get to know your personality, values, character and sense of humor.
4: I’ll write the speech in your voice and personality. This is critical and means the speech will be easy and comfortable for you to deliver.
5: I'll send you the speech and ask you to read through it out loud to yourself a few times. I'll add or refine anything until every word is exactly what you want to say.
6: I’ll outline the 10 essential delivery steps to crush nervousness and ensure you easily and comfortably knock your speech out of the park. This is going to be easier and more fun than you think.
What Customers Say
Frequently Asked Questions
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After booking you immediately receive an order confirmation then a separate email from me same day with a few questions to get started. Be sure to check your SPAM folder. This is a fast, easy process for you to get a funny, warm, killer original speech.
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I’ve used The Nail Your Speech Process for more than 20 years to gather a combination of facts, feelings and experiences. First you’ll answer a few simple but thought-provoking questions. Then I’ll call you to go deeper on some of the information. I also want to get to know you and your values, character, personality and sense of humor—all of which factor heavily into the voice and personality of your speech.
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All of them—father/mother of the bride and groom, maid of honor, bar/bat mitzvah, birthday, best man, bride, groomsman, bridesmaid and officiant. Each speech is different but I use the same meticulous research process to uncover and organize your thoughts, feelings and experiences. That means a speech 100% aligned with your values, personality and sense of humor. This is a speech only one person in the world can deliver—you.
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Yes. You're in complete control. Some clients mention our work together to others, some don't. It's up to you. Regardless, I'm always working behind the scenes to help you nail your speech.
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I'm completely digital and work with clients around the world. My home base is Chicago. I'm easy to reach day and night through email or telephone. And I promptly return emails and messages.
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This is a highly personalized service that will ensure your speech is the best speech of the event. If you're struggling with what to say or are an inexperienced speaker, this is for you. You don't have to continue wrestling with this alone or resort to using the same dull, generic lines and phony B.S. off Google you hear at every wedding or other event.
I've written speeches and coached thousands of speakers at all age and experience levels for more than 20 years. This process will work for you, too.
Giving a wedding, bar mitzvah or other speech is, for most of us, a once-in-a-lifetime honor. I will help make sure it’s one of the best experiences of your life.
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After earning a B.A. in communication studies and an M.A. in journalism on scholarship, I began my career in marketing agencies creating strategy and writing ads, films, speeches, books, websites and other materials for Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofits.
CEOs and other executives at client companies would often ask me to write a wedding, eulogy or other speech. These execs were also typically nervous about delivering their speech.
And there is a strong emotional component to social speeches where, for example, a father is speaking to his daughter or a maid of honor is honoring her big sister.
I enjoy helping people who are under pressure, short of time or doubting their abilities nail their wedding and other social speeches.
A little more here. Among every other speech imaginable, I also write eulogies here.
Other Speech Packages
You get a fun, warm, 100% original 7- to 9-minute speech written in your voice and personality.
Audiences love to be surprised and have fun. So your speech will be tight, punchy, fun and warm with unexpected twists and turns.
No canned jokes, tired clichés, empty platitudes or phony B.S. like you hear in every other wedding speech.
Unlimited editing to ensure every word is exactly what you want to say.
Includes The Field Guide to Nailing Your Speech, a straightforward, 15-page PDF book with valuable tips and strategies for reducing fear, using microphones and other important issues to ensure you’re cool, comfortable and ready to crush it on wedding day.
Includes the best-kept secret in public speaking to eliminate nervousness and that heart-pounding “whoosh” of adrenaline most of us get when we stand up to speak (this alone will be a game changer for you not only for this speech but every presentation for the rest of your life).
Speech + Delivery Help + Gift Set
A fun, warm, 100% original 7- to 9-minute speech written in your voice and personality.
Includes the best-kept secret in public speaking (if you're nervous, this alone will be a game changer for you not only for this speech but every presentation for the rest of your life).
Includes The Field Guide to Nailing Your Speech, a straightforward, 15-page book with valuable tips and strategies for reducing fear, using microphones and other important issues to ensure you knock your speech out of the park.
PLUS a 7”x 7”, four-color, hardcover gift book with the full text of your speech & up to 12 four-color photos printed on archival-quality Mohawk Proline Paper with an eggshell-textured uncoated finish (see book)
Includes an inscription page for you to write a short personal note that will make it a beautiful, thoughtful, instant family heirloom to be cherished forever. Book arrives with a special pen that uses archival-quality pigment ink that won’t ever fade.
Presented in a high-quality black box custom made in London with red looped ribbon to help lift the book from box.