Best Man Sample Speech

Good evening to everyone. If I could get everyone's attention just for a minute. Hi, and welcome to the celebration. On behalf of everyone in the wedding party I would like to thank you all for coming and sharing in this very important day in my good friend's life. I know that many of you do not know me, but the groom and I have been friends for going on 20 years now, so I think that I know a few things about this guy. I have been lucky enough to know the bride too for the last three or so years. I knew her first, before he did.

Anyway, I would like to tell you all about a few little things about these two people in hopes that you all will get to know them a little better. I am not one to tell funny jokes, so I hope you all can hang in there with me.

I guess what I would like to tell you all about is the way in which these two people have changed me. Now, I am the first to admit that I am anything but a perfect person. I like to have a good time, I eat too much (not as much as the groom, I'm sure you can see that in how tight his tux is, by the way) And, I have had my share of really bad relationships. It is not easy for me to say this, but I am sorry to say that I have failed in every last attempt I have made at a relationship.

You know, the weird thing about this is that I used to give advice to the groom here too. You know, I'm the one that helped him to learn some great pick up lines. I'm the one that talked to the girls for him to find out if they did have a crush on him or not. You know, I think it was me that even helped him to ask his first date out. Yep, he's got a lot that he owes me. Of course, now that you come to think about it. None of those relationships worked for him either. Well, enough of that.

On to what I was saying about the groom helping me out. He has always been there for me and I have always looked up to him. I may have been the one that was with a girl all the time, but I was also the one that screwed up at school and did really bad when it came to finding someone to love instead of someone that would just be with me. He did really well, as you can see here. He was able to do well in school. How, I will never know because sometimes common sense was anything but the top of his list. But, I think it worked for him. At least, it did enough that he now has the girl on his side.

When these two got together, I was impressed that he had found someone as nice and as beautiful as she is to share her day with. I was really impressed by the fact that theyhad made it two weeks before she kicked him to the curb, too. Well, then they started to get a little more serious. I knew that he was changing too. I saw him look at her and I saw the way she looked at him. I think I knew then that there was something that was much more serious about these two, something that I didn't really understand.

Well, as time went on, they kept getting close and I kept thinking what was wrong with me. I wasn't mad at him but I was jealous. I really wanted to find someone that was able to look at me with goo goo eyes. I wanted someone to forgive me when I accidentally forgot to call her. And, I wanted someone that I could take home to my parents. I guess in a way, then, they helped to change the person that I am today. It didn't take me long to see that maybe if I did settle down some and maybe if I stopped hanging out at the bar that maybe I would find someone as wonderful as he did. And, I thought to myself that well, this surely would not be fun.

Today, I am still working on improving who I am, but I know that a lot of you out there will agree with me when I say that these two are an inspiration. They have had their share of ups and downs; I guess we all have to go through that. But, somehow, no matter how much he screws up she always takes him back. To me, that's pretty important.

Today, I watched them tell each other that they loved them. I saw one of the most beautiful relationships that I have ever seen too. I especially liked when the priest told them that they had to be loyal to each other and that he needed to mind her. Yeah, maybe I do not want to be too much like that, huh? Not sure I am ready to settle down and become a real man. But today, he did just that. He went from a boy that was constantly fumbling and worrying to a man that was ready to face the world head on.

I would like to thank everyone for listening to me ramble on and I would like each one of you to get up and help me to toast these people that mean so very much to me. I wish them the very best in all that they do. I hope that they will have everything that they want to have and then some more. And, I hope that they always inspire me to be a better person too. We all love you, and we all want the very best for you both. I know that your lives together are going to be nothing short of truly amazing.