The Wedding Speech Manual: The Complete Guide to Preparing, Writing and Performing Your Wedding Speech
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The Wedding Speech Manual: The Complete Guide to Preparing, Writing and Performing Your Wedding Speech
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Overview
Do an outstanding wedding speech - in 7 easy steps!
Do you need to do a wedding speech but have no idea how to start or what to say?
Are you nervous about standing up and speaking in public?
Or do you just need some pointers to get that speech 100% awesome?
Are you looking for a practical guide to walk you through the whole wedding speech process?
The Wedding Speech Manual is here for you.
Your 7 Steps to Wedding Speech Success - I will show you:
Preparation - how to calm your nerves and be fully prepared before and on the wedding day
Get your material - three simple ways to get you overflowing with ideas in no time - your main problem will be what to leave out!
Structure and write your speech - how to turn those ideas into a great speech quickly and painlessly
Edit your speech - how to polish your speech into the best it can possibly be
Practice - the secret sauce - massively boost your confidence and ability to stand up and deliver your speech
Delivery - do your speech as confidently, calmly and impressively as any professional
Troubleshooting - so you’re 100% prepared for anything that could possibly happen!
The Wedding Speech Manual is your complete, practical, step-by-step guide to writing and performing a personalised wedding speech which will be enjoyed and cherished by your loved ones, friends and family.
“Thank you very much Mr Peter Oxley, the wedding was yesterday and the speech went down a storm. This book helped me so much, everyone said I nailed it. If anyone out there has a wedding speech to do soon, then forget the rest, this book is the only one you'll need or want. Thanks again” – Robert Butler
This comprehensive yet readable guide is for all wedding speakers – father of the bride, groom, best man, brides, mothers of the bride, bridesmaids – and will:
Give you the confidence that you have an excellent, original wedding speech which hits all the right notes
Get your wedding speech written quickly – so you can focus on practising and all the other things you have to do!
Show you the tools which the professionals use to master their nerves – so you can deliver your speech confidently, coolly and calmly - and enjoy the big day!
The Wedding Speech Manual will show you:
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 find loads of entertaining and amusing material to fill your speech
How to get the audience on your side right from the start
The key reasons why so many wedding speeches fail - and how to make sure yours doesn’t
How to write and perfect your speech – a lot quicker and easier than you ever thought possible
The “dreaded wedding speech etiquette” made simple - what you should and shouldn’t say
How to deliver your speech as confidently, calmly and impressively as possible
How to handle all the other stuff which can blind-side a public speaker: like using props, microphones and handling difficult audiences
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940156377022 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Burning Chair Publishing |
| Publication date: | 02/09/2019 |
| Sold by: | PUBLISHDRIVE KFT |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 154 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - The Speeches
2.1 The order of the speeches
2.2 The purpose of the speeches
2.3 How long should they be?
2.4 Putting it into perspective
Chapter 3 - Reasons to Not be Fearful
3.1 What are nerves?
3.2 Mastering your nerves
Exercise 1 – Understanding why you are nervous
3.3 Breathing
Exercise 2 – Breathing through the diaphragm
3.4 Loosen up
3.5 Visualisation and Positive Mental Attitude
Exercise 3 – Step by step visualisation technique
Exercise 4 – Positive mental attitude and visualisation
3.6 Why alcohol is never the answer
Chapter 4 - Logistics and Preparation
4.1 When to start?
4.2 How should you prepare?
Exercise 5 – What do you need to prepare?
Chapter 5 - The Audience
5.1 Why do we need to understand the audience?
Exercise 6 – Understanding your audience
5.2 Understanding the boundaries
5.3 If in doubt…
Chapter 6 - Getting Your Material
6.1 Research
6.2 Themes
Exercise 7 – Themes
6.3 Brainstorming
Exercise 8 – Brainstorming
6.4 Mind maps
Chapter 7 - Structuring and Writing Your Speech
7.1 Notes or a fully written speech?
7.2 What is structure and why is it important?
7.3 The three sections of your speech
7.4 Sample speech outlines
7.5 Key techniques to use
7.6 How to whittle down your ideas
Exercise 9 – Cutting down your ideas
7.7 Actually writing the speech
Chapter 8 - Editing
Exercise 10 – Editing your draft speech
Chapter 9 - The Importance of Practise
Chapter 10 - Practicalities of the Day
10.1 Your role
10.2 Checklists
10.3 A reminder of the importance of practise
Chapter 11 - Your Notes: Prompt Cards v Written Speech
Written Speeches
11.1 Advantages and disadvantages of written speeches
11.2 How to use written speeches
Prompt Cards
11.3 Advantages and disadvantages of prompt cards
11.4 How to convert your written speech into prompt cards
11.5 How to use prompt cards
11.6 What if I'm not comfortable using prompt cards?
Chapter 12 - Delivery
12.1 Breathing
12.2 Projection
Exercise 11 – Projecting your voice
12.3 Timing
12.4 Posture
Exercise 12 – Eye contact practise 1
Exercise 13 – Eye contact practise 2
Exercise 14 – Your hands
Exercise 15 – Standing
12.5 Using microphones
Chapter 13 - Props
Chapter 14 - Now That You've Finished...
Chapter 15 - Troubleshooting
A) What if I can't think of anything to say?
B) What if I can't start writing?
C) What if my speech is too long?
D) What if my speech is too short?
E) What if I decide my speech is rubbish?
F) What if my speech is boring?
G) What if my speech doesn't flow or make sense?
H) What if the speech before mine is really successful? How do I follow that?
I) What if one of the other speeches uses some of my material?
J) What if I lose my notes?
K) What if I forget my props, or they don't work?
L) What if people interrupt or heckle me?
M) What if no-one laughs?
N) What if I offend people?
O) What if people can't hear or understand me?
P) What if I get nervous?
Q) What if I lose my place when I'm talking?
R) What if the audience won't stop talking?
S) What if I struggle over a certain section of the speech?
T) What if the audience are all too conservative for the jokes I wanted to do?