How To Keep From Getting Emotional During Maid of Honor Speech

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Maid of honor is the bridesmaid, who helps the bride-to-be in all her planning for the wedding.
The maid of honor, if married is referred to as “Matron of honor.” The bride requests the person,
whom she wants to become the maid/ matron of honor for her wedding.

The maid of honor helps in making all the arrangements to the wedding, both before and during
the occasion. She helps out in sending out invitations to guests, hosting a bridal shower,
shopping for the bride, etc before the wedding. During the wedding, she helps out with things like
helping the bride get ready, holding the groom’s ring, holding the bouquet to be given to the
bride, making a toast to the newly wedded couple, giving a speech to wish luck to them in their
newfound life, etc.

The maid of honor’s speech is similar to a speech made by the best man, who gives out a speech
from the groom’s side. Since the maid of honor is a person very close to the bride, the speech
contains remembrances of the past and a request asking the bride not to forget their relationship
together and to continue it throughout their lives.

To reminisce about the past and the request to hold the relation strong in the future will usually
make the people present and the bride get emotional. This can sometimes become embarrassing
to the bride if she gets too emotional in front of all those who have gathered at the wedding.

The maid of honor, when making her speech should try to balance out everything, so that it helps
convey the importance of her relationship to the bride. However, at the same time, keeping a light
note avoids both of them (the bride and the bridesmaid) from becoming over emotional.

In between the lines, where the chances of the mood turning into getting over emotional, the
speech can be turned into remembering some funny episodes from the past to hit a light note
and to help everyone laugh. But, it has to be kept in mind that remembering some such episodes
itself may be embarrassing to the bride or to the maid of honor herself. So, the maid of honor
should be careful in avoiding bringing up such issues that may upset the bride.

Some jokes and appropriate one-liners can be included in the speech when the feeling is that the
atmosphere is going towards being emotional. This can keep the mood light and not cause any
kind of embarrassment either to the bride or to the maid of honor.

Being invited to be the maid of honor is a matter of pride and with it comes many responsibilities.
The maid of honor should strive to help the bride go through her wedding day with ease and
should be able to enjoy her wedding day. The bride should be able to recall her wedding day
throughout her life with joy and to achieve this. The maid of honor makes her speech without
causing any discomfiture to the bride and those present.