COVID-19 has temporarily changed the way we celebrate, particularly in the number of guests attending weddings.
Read MoreThere’s rarely a week that goes by that I don’t get at least two or three calls or emails from best men, fathers of the bride or maids of honor who are a week or even a just a few days out from the wedding and in a complete panic.
Read MoreA client recently directed me to a wedding “speechwriter” on-line (this one happens to be in England but they’re everywhere) who sells canned speech templates but also promises to write you an “original” speech if you like. Really? So, does that mean he won’t use any of the dull, tired lines from the generic speech templates he’s selling in your speech then? I’m skeptical.
Read MoreI was working recently with Allan, a father of the bride in New York. We were going over his speech together and he was carefully weighing each word.
He wanted to be sure we were conveying exactly what he had always wanted to say to his daughter on her wedding day. And he wanted to make sure the words were in exactly the right tone, style and voice.
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