Responsibilities Of Best Man

First of all the all important Stag Do demands a lot of time and effort, booking through a Stag Tour operator such as  Designaventure.co.uk will save you that time and effort. Remember if you do decide to book everything by yourself make sure you let every location such as hotels, nightclubs, activity sites etc. know that you are a "stag Do" they then cannot turn you away for that reason. With that said, there is still the much hyped 'speech' to be written. This needn't be the usual tribulation, which various scaremongers' make it out to be. Try and enjoy it as after when relieving the memory you will wish you did.

We at stag-weekend.net have put together the following points on best man speeches, in order to help you a little and hopefully remind you of a few pointers:

• Don't try to hard to be comical (unless you can pull it off). ~ The best man's speech is meant to be sincere and considerate (as you are the best friend of the groom). It is also meant to cover 3 - 4 funny stories, of the groom's younger years and the happy days of when he met his wife. Also, don't forget to include positive achievements that the Groom has done, such as a degree, sporting medals or charity work. They have spent a lot of time and money on their wedding so a four-worded speech is defiantly not appropriate.

• Time Keeping ~ In estimation, 5 - 7 minutes should be the longest you keep anyone from the bar. 5 - 7 minutes is a long time so give yourself plenty of gaps where you think people may laugh, clap or cry!

• Be outspoken ~ If you think the Groom is crap at football and he thinks he's good tell the audience, be honest, they'll want to know.

• Have it honorable ~ In your funny stories, there is no necessity to go into aspects of the Groom's private life as a rent boy. Although this would sound funny amongst his friends in the pub, however when you're in front of the Groom's own family and his new in laws remember, they may not be interested (in some cases they may, so try and judge the audience before you write your speech). Also, try not to swear some guests may take offence and don't get drunk before as this definitely does not work!

• Don't ignore tradition ~ The Groom will thank you for being best man, so you will need to thank him back, the Groom will also toast to the Bridesmaids, you will then have to thank him on behalf of the bridesmaids. Your final steps are to include your speech, the reading of telexes/emails/cards from absent friends and a final toast to the Bride & Groom.

• Good Luck.

Here are a couple one liners you may want to use in your speech:

As you can tell I am feeling a bit nervous, but it's OK, I have spoken to a lot of friends, and they advised me it's all about delivery, mind you I have been hanging around with a lot of midwives recently.

Women you can't live with them, you can't live with them.

You know what? I haven't spoken to my wife for two years, we haven't fallen out, I just didn't want to interrupt!

Jonny (Groom) in closing I would like to offer you this advice, my old man use to say to me "always fight fire with fire", and that is why, he no longer works for the fire brigade!