The Wedding Speech Handbook: ... how to make a great speech on the day it matters most (Telling Experience)

Dreading your wedding speech? ‘What should I say? What shouldn't I say?’ Here's the book that will help you master your nerves and wow your audience. The prospect of speaking in public terrifies most people and a wedding can double the stress. Why? Because it matters. It’s personal, it’s emotional, and expectations are high. Experienced speakers, and eminent performers in other fields, feel the fear too. But they know that the nerves are inevitable: to be welcomed and managed. Michael MacMahon has been speaking in public, and training and coaching speakers, for 40-odd years. In The Wedding Speech Handbook he has distilled his experience of the art and science of public speaking as applied to a wedding. This book combines the psychology and the practicalities: three strategies for managing the nerves, then lots of solid advice on drafting, remembering and delivering a great wedding speech. One that the audience will enjoy and that you’ll be proud of. The author is a speaking coach. Here's what one of his clients wrote: 'If you need to give the most important speech of your life and need guidance and structure, then Michael MacMahon is the man who can allow you to deliver what you have hoped for. 'My speech was as Father of the Bride. To say I was nervous and out of my depth is a serious understatement. 'Michael helped me construct and flow the words; and then gave me tuition and tools to allow me to deliver confidently; and then the reward, having my daughter show how happy and proud she was of me and what was said.' (Tom Walker, North Somerset)