Product Description

The focus of this book is on that brief but terrifying prospect: the Best Man's speech. The book includes techniques for using stories, jokes and quotations that will lift your speech well above the bare necessities, helping you not only to make the speech, but also to enjoy it. More than just a guide to the Best Man's speech, this book is a one-stop guide to being a really effective, all round, Best Man. Above all its purpose is to help you enjoy your role as Best Man and to make it an occasion that honours the groom and his chosen bride.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76849 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 185 pages

About the Author
Phillip Khan-Panni MCIM is an acclaimed speaker, toastmaster and trainer who has written wedding speeches professionally. He holds no less than three major public speaking records: - seven times UK Champion - three times Anglo-Irish Champion - the first speaker from Britain to win the Silver Medal in the World Championships. Through his consultancies, PKP Communicators and 4C International, Phillip coaches very senior business executives in public speaking, presentation skills and cross-cultural communication, both in the UK and abroad. He is a founding director of the Professional Speakers Association. As one of his clients said, 'Don't ever speak in public without first speaking to Phillip.' He is author of 2,4,6,8, How Do You Communicate?, Blank Page to First Draft in 15 Minutes in the Communicators series.

Customer Reviews

One of the better Best Man books about
While being full of useful information, I felt that there was a lot of 'padding' material used to increase the page-count and justify the price. The structure of the book is also rather muddled and I found myself constantly hopping between chapters trying to follow a thread.

Despite this, the checklists of things to do and advice for before, during and after 'the big day' is all extremely useful. The Speech writing guide is excellent and provides solid advice for people that have never written or delivered a speech before (it saved my neck!). The book also covers some of the other roles a Best Man can be asked to carry out, including the conduction of the days events and sorting out any problems.

OK, but there's better help out there
I bought this book in the hope that it would really help me in writing a great speech, but I was left a bit disappointed.

There's useful background information, and some good ideas, but there's better help out there for best men who want to give a funny and memorable speech.

A friend of mine gave an absolute killer speech the other month, having found a website with loads of lines from real past speeches - thebestmanspeech.com, if I remember. I wish I'd found it too!

brilliant for the beginner
what an excellent book!!!!
its a stark contrast to all the other books i've looked at, it gives you much needed history of bestman duties, and it's implications on your modern duties, read it and you will be impressed!!!