The Wedding Speech Manual: The Complete Guide to Preparing, Writing and Performing Your Wedding Speech

By Peter Oxley

Worried about making a wedding speech? Nervous? Unsure how to start or what to say?

The Wedding Speech Manual is the complete, practical, step-by-step guide which shows you how to write and perform a personalised wedding speech: something which will be enjoyed and cherished by your loved ones, friends and family.

This book will give you the confidence to approach the wedding day safe in the knowledge that you have an excellent, original wedding speech. Not just that — you will also learn tools to master your nerves and deliver your speech as confidently, coolly and calmly as any professional.

Includes practical exercises to guide you step-by-step through the process of researching, writing and performing your wedding speech, as well as a "Troubleshooting" section with answers to the most common questions and issues faced by wedding speechmakers.

You will learn:
• What you will be expected to say and do.
• How to master your nerves and stop them getting in the way of your successful speech.
• How to research, draft and edit your speech.
• How to deliver your speech as confidently, professionally and impressively as possible.
• How to handle other typical issues: like props, microphones and difficult audiences.

***Updated second edition, including additional content, tips and techniques of the professionals***

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter Oxley
• Release date: Nov 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301694358

Peter Oxley

A wedding speech veteran with over 25 years of public speaking experience, Peter Oxley has drawn on extensive experience presenting in a variety of situations, as well as the secrets of the professionals, to write a book which is relevant to all wedding speakers - father of the bride, mother of the bride, groom, bride, best man, maid of honour and bridesmaids. An author of fiction as well as non-fiction, with The Infernal Aether, the first in a series about demons in Victorian London, now for sale at online retailers.