A wedding speech guide from Lantern Row Press
The Six-Beat Toast
Write a Wedding Speech You Are Not Scared to Give in One Hour, for the Best Man, Maid of Honor, or Parent.
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Nine finished wedding speeches, one for every role
Each page gives you a complete speech you can read aloud tonight, then marks where each of the six beats starts. Pick the seat you are sitting in.
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Best ManBest man speech example, about 4 min
Maid of HonorMaid of honor speech example, about 4 min
Father of the BrideFather of the bride speech example, about 4 min
Mother of the BrideMother of the bride speech example, about 4 min
Father of the GroomFather of the groom speech example, about 4 min
Mother of the GroomMother of the groom speech example, about 4 min
SiblingSister of the bride and brother of the groom speeches, about 4 min
WelcomeWedding welcome speech example, about 1 min
The CoupleCouple's thank-you speech example, about 4 min
The method
Six beats in a fixed order. Fill the boxes, the boxes become the speech.
Most speech advice tells you to be yourself, speak from the heart, and keep it short. That is true and it is useless. It describes the finished thing without telling you how to build it.
This book does the opposite. It gives you six beats in a fixed order, a worksheet for each one, and a worked example from a best man, a maid of honor, and a parent. You fill in six boxes. The boxes become the speech.
Set aside an hour. Bring one memory of the person you are speaking about. That is the whole list of things you need.
- 1OpenInside a specific moment. No name, no thanks.
- 2ClaimOne true sentence that could only be about them.
- 3StoryOne scene that proves the claim.
- 4TurnThe same quality, arriving for the other one.
- 5BlessingA wish the room can picture.
- 6LiftInstruction first, names last and loudest.
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The Six-Beat Toast
Write a Wedding Speech You Are Not Scared to Give in One Hour, for the Best Man, Maid of Honor, or Parent. 95 pages, one hour, one memory of the person you are speaking about. That is the whole list of things you need.
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- 1. The Four Ways This Goes Wrong
- 2. The Open
- 3. The Claim
- 4. The Story
- 5. The Turn
- 6. The Blessing
- 7. The Lift
- 8. The Night Before and the Ten Minutes Before
- 9. The Wedding Speech Template
- 10. How to Write a Wedding Speech from a Blank Page
- 11. The Short Wedding Speech
- 12. The Funny Wedding Speech
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Not for you if you want no structure at all. The book is six beats in a fixed order, and it does not bend.
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About Lantern Row Press
Lantern Row Press
Lantern Row Press publishes short, practical guides for the handful of days that people spend months worrying about. Weddings, funerals, first speeches, hard conversations.
Every guide is built the same way. One method, in a fixed order, with a worksheet at every step, and a worked example for each of the roles you might actually be standing in. Nothing in a Lantern Row guide is theory. If it does not survive being read out loud, it does not go in.
Questions before you buy: Lantern Row Press on Whop. The example speeches on this site are invented for illustration and do not describe real people or events.