Why Use a Professional Wedding Speech Writer?

Why use a professional to help with your wedding speech?

It is a fair enough question.

As are these:

• Why use someone you have never met, who doesn’t know you and who you may never meet again to write what is probably the most important speech of your life?
• Why tell a complete stranger many of your deepest secrets and innermost thoughts?
• Isn’t it cheating to have your own words written, or even edited, by someone else?

There is only really one answer, which is that when something matters this much to you, you may believe that you are not in the best position to get it quite right.

Most people who require professional help with a wedding speech fall into one of these four categories:

1. They find it hard to put pen to paper
2. They find it hard to deliver words in front of the guests
3. They are just too busy to find the time
4. A combination of the above

A professional simply seeks to reduce your stress by providing the writing skills and coaching on delivery to enable you to give the best speech possible. You may fear that getting help is cheating.  On that basis, so is surfing the internet for recycled quotes, or buying books about how to make a great speech.

Unfortunately, those two routes have been walked many times.  This means that although they may contain a lot of sense, they also tend to have been copied to death. A professional speechwriter should guarantee you originality.

It is actually a little bizarre that people are so embarrassed about seeking help for a wedding speech.  After all, public speaking is a renowned phobia, and a professional can help provide the confidence you require to overcome it.

Huge amounts of money goes into organising the perfect wedding day.  But unlike the flowers, the starters or the fifth glass of wine, most people will go home afterwards and remember the speeches.  At a work event they can make the difference between winning or losing a piece of business.  In politics they can be the catalyst leading to an election victory or humiliation.

Come to think of it, why don’t more people use a professional speechwriter?!

I look forward to hearing from you!

Lawrence

Article by Wedding Speech Writing Specialist Lawrence Bernstein

Image Courtesy of Surrey Wedding Photographer Matt Pereira Photography

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