Tell it who the groom is, who he is marrying and a story or two, and Hemmingway writes a best man speech around them: who you are in one line, the stories, something warm about the couple, and a toast. It is written to be said out loud, in short sentences that leave the jokes room to land.
Nothing in it is made up. It cannot supply a funny story about a groom it has never met, so every laugh comes from something you typed in. Tell the stories the way you would in the pub.
What makes it work
A best man speech has to be funny about the groom and kind to him in the same few minutes.
- Give one story that teases and one that shows who he is. The turn from the first to the second is where the room goes quiet.
- Say something about the person he is marrying. One true line about what changed when they met stops the speech being all about you and him.
- Use the grandmother test. Exes, the stag do and anything you would not say with his grandmother listening stay out of the form.
An example
Asked for a best man speech for an oldest friend, Callum, who is marrying Priya, with the story that he forgot the tent poles on a camping trip in Wales so you both slept in the car, and the line that since Priya he turns up on time, an opening along these lines is what to expect. This is the start and one story, not the whole speech.
Hello, all. I'm Callum's oldest friend, so I have had the longest to collect evidence.
We went camping in Wales once. Callum forgot the tent poles.
We slept in the car.
I bring this up because, since Priya, this same man turns up on time.
Priya, none of us know how you did it.
The rest carries on to a second story and the toast. If a joke is too sharp, say so in the chat and it changes that part.
Common questions
Is the best man speech generator free?
Yes. Hemmingway has a free trial with no card needed, and this tool opens it with your answers filled in. You sign up once, and the speech is written in the chat.
How long should a best man speech be?
Three to five minutes. That holds two stories and a toast, and nobody starts looking at the bar. How to write a best man speech has a structure you can time yourself against.
Can it write the jokes for me?
It can turn your story into a joke, because the funny part is already in what happened. For a spare one-liner to open with, try the joke generator.
Will it sound like AI?
It is built not to. Hemmingway-1, the model behind it, came first on sounding like a person in our own blind test, Human-Likeness. It still helps to read it aloud and change any word you would not use.
Does it work if I am his brother, or a best woman?
Yes. Say who you are in the first field and it writes from there. For any other role at the wedding, use the wedding speech generator.