You could type “write me a best man speech” into a chatbot for free. Lots of people do, and then they turn up at the wedding with a speech that opens “Ladies and gentlemen, as the best man it is my honour” and dies on its feet before the first anecdote. Our AI best man speech is a different animal. It is built on years of writing these for real best men, a set of questions we have refined to get the right material out of your head, and a database of content written specifically for wedding speeches that you will not find anywhere else on the internet. For £39.99 you get a structured, personal first draft in minutes, and you get to skip the blank page entirely.
How the AI best man speech works
- Buy the speech. £39.99, paid online however you like. That unlocks the questionnaire.
- Answer our questions. This is the bit that matters. We ask you a series of questions about you, the groom, the bride and the moments the three of you have shared, designed to pull out the material a good speech is actually made of. The more detail you give, the better the result. Budget about fifteen minutes.
- Get your speech. It is generated instantly from your answers, in sections, following the same speech structure we use when we write one by hand. Do not like one section? Regenerate it with new or revised content. When you are happy, download it to Word and edit as you see fit, or grab it as a PDF. You can log back in at any time to get it again.
Why it beats a generic AI speech
Ask a general-purpose chatbot for a wedding speech and it has to guess at everything: what you want to include, how long it should be, what order things go in, and what passes for funny in a marquee in Berkshire. When you give it a long brief it struggles to hold all of the information at once, so you get something that reads smoothly and says nothing about anyone in the room.
Ours is different in three ways.
- The questions. We have spent years finding out which questions get a best man talking about the groom in a way that turns into usable stories. Those are the questions you answer, so the raw material going in is the right raw material.
- The structure. Your answers are packaged into the same tried and tested shape we use when we write a speech by hand: introduction, thanks, the groom, the couple, toast. It is designed to come in around 1,000 words, which lands inside the ten-minute mark that we think is the longest anyone should talk for.
- The source material. It draws from a database of content written specifically for best man speeches that cannot be found anywhere else online. That is what makes the output unique to you.
Under the bonnet it runs on the paid version of ChatGPT, which produces more current content than the free one. The engine is not the clever part. Everything we feed it is.
What you get for £39.99
- A complete best man speech of roughly 1,000 words, built from your own answers and ready to use or edit
- Our speechwriters’ question set, so you are prompted for the stories that actually work
- A proven structure that covers everything a best man is expected to say
- Section-by-section regeneration if a part does not land
- Download in Word or PDF, with login access any time you want it again
At the moment the AI speech is for best men only. Other roles are coming. If you are the groom or the father of the bride and need help now, our writers already cover you through the full speech writing service.
AI speech or a human writer?
Honest answer: it depends on how much of the work you want to do yourself.
The AI speech gives you a relevant, well-structured draft fast and cheaply. It is a machine, though, and it does not have the nuance of a person who has sat across a table from you and heard the way you tell the story about the stag do. You will need to read it aloud, cut what does not sound like you, and add the detail only you know. For a lot of best men that is exactly the right amount of help: a head start, not a ghostwriter.
The full speech writing service is the other end of the scale. You fill in a questionnaire, your writer rings you to talk it through, and you get a bespoke best man speech by an agreed date, with amendments up to the day and a refund if you are unhappy. It costs £299.
There is also a middle route. Generate the AI speech, edit it yourself, then send it to our editing service for £149.99 and a human will fix the structure, trim the length and add the humour a machine cannot.
Try the free tools first
Before you spend anything, have a go with what is already on the site. Our best man speech questionnaire asks a lot of the same questions and costs nothing. Our best man speech examples show you what a finished one looks like, including short best man speech examples if you are keeping it brief. And our best man speech jokes and one-liners are there for the moment you need an opener. If you get through all that and the page is still blank, the AI speech is £39.99 and takes a quarter of an hour.
Still writing it yourself? Our best man speech guide covers the structure and how to be funny covers the hard part. And if you would rather someone else did the whole thing, our speech writing service is a phone call away.
Frequently asked questions
How long does the AI best man speech take?
You answer a series of questions about you, the groom and the couple, which takes around fifteen minutes if you give proper detail. The speech is then generated instantly. The more you put in, the better it comes out.
How long is the AI best man speech?
Typically around 1,000 words, give or take. We designed it to come in under the ten-minute mark, which we think is the maximum any best man should talk for. You can trim it further once you download it.
Can I edit the AI best man speech?
The speech is presented in sections and you can regenerate any section with new or revised content. It cannot be edited directly inside the tool, but you can download it to Word and change whatever you like, or take it as a PDF.
Is the AI speech as good as a human speechwriter?
No, and we would not claim it is. It uses a structure we would use in real life and our own wedding speech content, so it is far better than a generic chatbot. But it is a machine and lacks human nuance. It is a strong first draft to build on, not a finished bespoke speech.
