3 Best Man Speech Examples To Inspire You

Best man speech is sort of the highlight of any wedding. While there are other wedding speeches, Best man speech comes at the end and everyone is expecting a great show.

No pressure at all. right?

To get it right, you have to prepare your speech well in advance. You have to decide the absolute correct ratio of humor and emotions. You have to minimize the cliches and so on.

As they say, 'good artists copy, great artists steal' we are going to do something like this today.

We are going to look at 3 examples of Best men who crushed their speeches at their Best friend or brother's weddings.

These are actual wedding speeches that I got from youtube and you can find the video link at the end of each speech.

This list is in no particular order so let's go.

#1 - Anthony at George & Nicole Wedding

There comes a time in everyone's life when they meet their true love, their soulmate, the person who will know and love them for the rest of their life. That moment came for George 25 years ago when he met me.

I guess I should introduce myself. For those who don't know me, my name is Anthony. I'm George's younger brother. To be asked today by George to be his best man is an honor for me, but it's also very honorable of him because he's finally admitting to each and every one of you that I truly am the best.

I would also like to say how beautiful most of you look tonight. I'm glad to see that some of you actually made an effort. Speaking of beautiful, the bride, Nicole, looks absolutely stunning. It's clear to see how George has become so enchanted by her. To be honest, her beauty tonight is making George a little bit more handsome than he actually is.

For those of you that don't know, growing up George and I were polar opposites. He was smart and driven. I was the funny goofball. He was athletic; I was and still am incredibly good-looking. Because of our different but distinct personalities, we did fight a lot. In fact, George was always so much bigger than me that my parents forbid him from hitting me when we got into fights. So, I used to take advantage of that and torture him all the time. I apologize for that, as always. But we did have our good times, playing wiffle ball in the backyard, playing hockey out front with Jessie and Jamie, or when we would turn the basement into an obstacle course and play American Gladiators with our Nerf guns. It's memories like these with my big brother that I will never forget.

High school is where I first met Nicole. I met her my freshman year because we were both members of the digital yearbook. I remember instantly liking her simply for the fact that she didn't compare me to George like a lot of the upperclassmen and even some of the teachers did. Beyond that, she was just a good person. I felt like I could actually be myself around her and didn't have to try to impress her. I love you for that, Nicole.

Fast forward to college. I remember one year coming home, my parents and George were in the living room. I went to put my stuff down and then realized someone else was in the room—it was Nicole. It was at this point that I found out the two of them had been dating. It was the first of many times that I would find her sitting in my favorite couch, which I'll still get you back for.

After George and I graduated college, we got closer. We still fought, but we hung out a lot more often. If Nicole and George were having a low-key night, maybe going to the movies or going bowling, they'd invite me to tag along. Neither one of them ever made me feel like I was a third wheel. I remember one night we went out to dinner. We were driving around afterwards, and I was smiling, having a great time. At that moment, I knew Nicole was going to be around for the long haul. She made my brother happy in a way that I hadn't seen him smile like that in a while. I can honestly say, Nicole, that I think you just might be the reason why George and I are as close as we are now.

Over the last four years, our relationship and our brotherhood got tighter. We do still fight, of course, but for different reasons. We fight hard because we love harder. A few weeks ago, George and I were at the car wash, talking about the wedding. Out of nowhere, he turned to me and said, "You know, I'm really glad you and I got so close." I remember just looking at him, thinking that was kind of out of left field. I said, "You know, me too." Then he said something to me that I know I'll never forget: "I just want to let you know that I'm always on your side. I am now, and I will always be your biggest fan."

The truth of the matter is, I could say the same for you, George. Through thick and thin, good and bad, you're my big brother. I always look up to you and I've always admired you. Nicole, I could not be any happier that you're now part of our family. Seeing the two of you together just looks complete. I wish you nothing but happiness, love, and success for the rest of your years.

So now, if you'll join me in raising a glass to toast the happy couple, George and Nicole. Love is a force more impressive than any other because it is invisible. It cannot be seen, but it can transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession ever could. Congratulations!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRxcc_7didA

#2 - Erin Goodhoofd at Alan & Michelle Goodhoofd Wedding

I have to go to the bathroom, so I'm going to keep this short.

Following Herb is always a tough task, but I'll give it my best shot. A few months ago, I was talking to Alan, and he said, "I don't really want you to speak at my wedding, but you're the only brother I have."

For those of you that do not know me, my name is Erin, and I'm today's best man. I decided to enter the best brother sweepstakes because there is less competition. Michelle and Alan, it is an honor to stand up here today. I can't be more happy for you two. I'm so glad we could celebrate today with so many friends and family from not only around this area but from around the world. There are people from Quebec, Alberta, the States, and even someone from Australia. It's amazing how far some people will travel for a free meal.

Alan, I'm honored to be part of this small army that you call a wedding party. That's the biggest table I've ever seen! When I heard today would include a big party, I thought it was about the reception. I don't know which group is larger: Alan's groomsmen or Rita Vanilli's pallbearers. Her music will live in my heart forever.

It's especially awesome that we're here today considering Alan had kidney stones only a few days ago. For a short period of time, Alan was in quite a bit of pain, and it looked like today might not even happen. There was always a part of me, however, that knew the wedding was going to happen. I knew Alan would not let anything get in the way of marrying Michelle. Plus, the fact that we're Dutch family and everything had been paid for.

Let me tell you a bit about my relationship with Alan. We met in the 80s, back in a time when spam was simply canned meat. At first, I think Alan respected me because he would do courteous things for me, including giving me the top bunk. Within a few short years, however, our brotherly rivalry intensified, and Alan was already bigger than me. If you look at old family photos, such as the one at Table three, you guys can check it out after. Alan kind of looked like a child bodybuilder, and I looked like Jana never fed me.

Even to this day, she's always like, "Alan needs his protein, Alan needs his protein," so we just starved, I guess. Because of Alan's physique, I avoided getting into physical confrontations with him. Instead, I tried to outsmart him. My favorite tactic was giving him a hard object, such as marbles, and then standing in front of glass objects, such as mirrors, windows, and pitchers. I would then insult him, and he, being kind of like a large dog not knowing his own strength, would hurl the marble at me. I would dodge, the glass would break, and I would love every second of it.

As the years went on, though, I thought the rivalry was dying down and a possible friendship was beginning. I guess I was mistaken, though. I received an email from Alan on my birthday one year. It said, "Happy Birthday. Mom made me send this."

I won't make much more fun of Alan, though, because, A - we all know he's been through enough pain already this week, and B - let's be honest, making fun of Alan is very hard to do. I may be the older brother, but Alan was and is so good at so many things. He has so many good qualities. I was the one usually looking up to him because Alan is nearly perfect and rarely makes any mistakes. It really made it hard for me to come up with the material for this speech. If it wasn't for the kidney stones, I'd be screwed.

There are a lot of qualities that Alan has. Whether it's his maturity—in grade school, while most of his classmates were probably worrying about their voices changing and hair growing out of weird places, Alan was busy running a website business. Whether it's Alan's toughness—the guy just peed out a rock. Enough said. Alan told me yesterday he actually went into the toilet with his hand and grabbed the stone. Alan usually doesn't wash his hands, as John Davis told me yesterday. I hope he did that time.

We're talking about Alan's qualities here. I got sidetracked. Whether it's his compassion—he spends countless hours giving to others with his Athletes in Action sports ministry, or as they call it, AIA. At first, I misheard him, though. I thought he said AA. Once he told me he was going to AA for the weekend, and I'm like, "Alan, I didn't know you drank." Whether it's Alan's smarts—only Alan would be able to maintain a ninety average and still be cool. Or whether it's his athletic ability—his trophy collection was huge, always bigger than my seventh place ribbon collection.

There was and always is a reason to admire Alan. Many younger brothers learn from their older brothers. With Alan and I, it's the other way around. But enough about Alan and his Nobel Peace Prizes. Today Alan is a married man. Today is about Alan and the love of his life, his MacBook Pro.

In life, there are people who procrastinate and leave everything to the last minute, like myself and this speech. And then there's Alan. You can look no further than the planning that went on for today. He actually had his wedding website up and running even before he met Michelle. As Herb was mentioning, Alan likes to plan. When we were younger, we called him the Plan Man. He always planned ahead, thought things through, and organized his actions in a way to achieve whatever his goal was at the time. The Plan Man thing started years ago when Alan was about five or so. Kristen, if you remember, we would watch him spend two hours making a sandwich, two seconds eating it. I wouldn't really call it making a sandwich, though. It was more like designing a sandwich. He would lay all the ingredients on the table, carefully place them on his bread. We knew from that point on the Plan Man was destined to be an engineer.

I have no doubt that Alan's grand plan includes sharing his life with the beautiful wife, Michelle. You look amazing today, Alan. You didn't even shave.

I'll never forget the day Alan got engaged, partly because he videotaped his proposal. He's a bit of a creep, apparently. He called me that day. Alan never calls me. When he calls, you know it's about something important. As soon as I picked up the phone, I could hear his voice. I've never heard Alan sound happier than he ever had before. I always tease him about how he shows off his engineering ring on his pinky finger. I can safely say, though, today Alan's much more proud of his new ring, even more proud to show off his new wife.

Michelle, ever since we met you, we knew you were a keeper. I particularly liked you from the start because you always laughed at my jokes, even though Alan would just shake his head and call me an idiot. You are beautiful inside and out: kind, compassionate, genuine, smart, caring, and most importantly, you make my brother happy in a way that I never could.

These last few days have been tough with Alan's health, but Michelle, you have been there for him every step of the way. Michelle—or should I say Mitch—welcome to the family. There are many Michelles in this world, but there's only one Mitch. For those of you that don't know, our family calls Michelle "Mitch." Why? I have no idea. I think once I called her that for some reason, it stuck. I think Alan misunderstood me, though, because he sometimes calls you Mitchell. Don't worry about that too much; he sometimes calls me Kayla.

Seriously though, Michelle, I couldn't ask for a better sister-in-law, and I sincerely apologize about the horrible last name you have to use from now on. I told Alan he should use Styler. When I went to pick up my tux Saturday, they asked for my last name. I said "Goof." They said, "Huh?" I went to the store to pick up a gift from the registry, they asked for my last name. I said "Goof." They said, "Huh?" These are the struggles you will have to deal with on a daily basis.

I'm fully confident, though, that you will thrive being a Goof. Alan and Michelle, I wish you all the best in your life together. I love you both. Mom made me say that.

So I don't have a glass, but let's all raise a glass to the most important people here: the bar staff. To Alan and Michelle, thank you. I'm going to go hug them, and then I can go to the bathroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ZQcJJBmj4

#3 - Frank at Andy & Nicole Wedding

Hello everyone,

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Frank, Andy's older brother. Just because I'm shorter doesn't mean that I'm younger.

I want to start by thanking Mr. and Mrs. Battaglia, my mom, and Tom, my dad, for making this day happen. I'd also like to thank everyone who made it here today, except for all my haters out there. You know who you are.

I've never been great at giving speeches. I tend to get a little nervous, so I'd also like to send a special thank you to Grammy for the Xanax she gave me earlier. Way to look out, Grammy. It's starting to kick in.

You know, weddings are amazing. It's when two people come together and proclaim that out of millions of people out there, this is the best man in the world. I want to say thank you. And you guys are right.

You see, for a long time, I always thought I was better than everyone else. And now it's official.

I'm very happy to be here to celebrate this glorious day with Andy and Nicole. I can't believe they've been together for 10 or 11 years or whatever the hell it is. It still amazes me that anyone would choose to tolerate Andy for that long. I think Nikki deserves the Jimmy V Award for perseverance.

During those 10 or 11 years, I've been their third wheel thousands of times, and they're my favorite couple in the world. I myself am still single by choice. Sometimes my own, but mostly the choice of the women that I've dated.

Raising Andy, a child with severe attention deficit disorder, as a single brother certainly had its challenges, but I did the best I could, and I think he turned out okay for the most part. It turned out Nikki's love was stronger than the Ritalin ever was. Nicole has made Andy so much less annoying. He still can't manage to show up on time for anything, but it's still an improvement.

Growing up, Andy and I used to do everything together. We would hang out with our friends in the neighborhood and play sports, ride bikes, throw things at cars, light fireworks in people's driveways, shout at pedestrians as we passed by in the car, or steal pumpkins from houses and roll them down a hill into oncoming traffic. You know, normal kid stuff.

We were partners in crime, but many times I was the victim. Whether he was stealing my clothes, taking my ID so he could get into bars underage, or taking my car for joyrides when he was 15 and I didn't have a driver's license, nothing was ever off limits, and rarely did I ever get my stuff back. So I only put five dollars in your wedding card and we'll call it even.

As Andy's older brother, it used to be my job to look out for him and bail him out of jams so he wouldn't get into trouble. Now that burden's on Nicole. After one of his birthdays, Andy was too hungover from a night of drinking to move, so he laid in the bathtub, turned the shower on, and Nikki fed him Wendy's cheeseburgers. I'm so happy Andy has Nikki to take care of him now because I don't have to see him naked anymore.

Nicole, you look beautiful tonight. Nikki's loyal, great at what she does, good looking, rockin' bad, smooth dresser, talented lyricist. I know that today I'm supposed to welcome you to our family, Nikki, but the truth is you've been a part of our family for a long time now. I'm so happy for you guys. Nicole, you're the best sister-in-law a guy could ask for, and Andy, you're the best brother a brother could ask for.

And with that, I'd like to propose a toast. So if everyone could raise their glasses to Andy and Nicole. I love you guys, and I'm so happy for you. Cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qjdnIs75LA