The Modern Couple's Guide to Wedding Speeches

Name: The Modern Couple's Guide to Wedding Speeches
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781472147561
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How to Write and Deliver an Unforgettable Speech or Toast

By Heidi Ellert-McDermott

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The Modern Couple's Guide to Wedding Speeches by Heidi Ellert-McDermott offers nearlyweds a contemporary toolkit to craft memorable, heartfelt, and witty wedding speeches. This guide dispels outdated clichés and dreaded traditions, empowering couples to deliver speeches that resonate with their unique union—whether groom, bride, straight or gay. Drawing on Heidi’s award-winning expertise and insights from comedians, TV writers, and wedding influencers, readers learn to plan well-structured speeches, embrace modern etiquette, gather meaningful content, and master delivery techniques. The book also includes over a dozen professionally written wedding speech examples to inspire couples to celebrate their special day with confidence and charm.
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This guide is ideal for couples preparing to give wedding speeches, including those wanting to avoid traditional, tired formats. It appeals to modern nearlyweds, wedding party members, and anyone tasked with delivering a heartfelt and humorous speech on their special day.

Whether it's a same-sex, intimate or even a traditional big-bash wedding, this book will inspire couples to ditch the old-fashioned etiquette guides, work together and turn their wedding speeches into the epicenter of their day.

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Groom or bride, straight or gay. Nail the perfect words to say.

There's no longer an excuse for wedding speeches to be a tedious succession of predictable platitudes, outdated etiquette and cheesy wedding gags. The Modern Couple's Guide to Wedding Speeches is for nearlyweds who want to make their wedding speeches one of the day's highlights.

Written by Heidi Ellert-McDermott, award-winning wedding speechwriter and founder of Speechy, this guide will help you write and deliver a speech that's memorable for the right reasons.

Heidi's advice has been quoted everywhere from the Daily Mail to the New York Times, and with insights and trade secrets from comedians, TV scriptwriters and wedding influencers, this is the ultimate toolkit for couples wanting to make their wedding speeches a little more wonderful.

Create a lifelong memory as you:

Plan the perfect speech line up
Decide how to represent your union 'on mic'
Swot up on modern speech etiquette
Gather cracking content and curate your best material
Discover the simple speechwriter techniques that will help you develop unique, humorous and sentimental lines to add wit and depth to your speech
Learn the trade secrets to delivering like a pro
Get inspired by over a dozen wedding speech examples written by professional speechwriters

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Praised for its fresh approach, the book is commended as a must-have for couples seeking creativity over cookie-cutter clichés. Wedding and media experts highlight its practicality and inclusivity, noting it equips even nervous speakers to become confident orators. Reviews emphasise that it helps couples break the rules and enjoy their big day without speech anxiety, making it a timely accessory for the wedding party.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472147561

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Robinson

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Heidi Ellert-McDermott is a TV director and writer turned speechwriter.

She worked at the BBC for the majority of her fifteen-year career, producing entertainment shows.

It was her love of comedy scriptwriting that led to her giving a bride speech that got more compliments than her dress.

Realising there was an appetite for wedding speeches that are modern, witty, and unshackled by tradition, she set up Speechy, a bespoke wedding speech company, employing TV scriptwriters and comedians to help couples around the world achieve their wedding speech goals.

The team's passion for storytelling is revolutionising the wedding scene and Heidi's speech advice has been quoted everywhere from the Observer to the Daily Mail, and from The Drew Barrymore Show to the New York Times.

She lives in the Cotswolds, England with her husband Roger and two children.

And, yes, she did write Roger's groom speech.