Wedding Speech, One Week Time Table

Wedding Speeches - The One Week Timetable

I have one week to prepare for my wedding speech - what do I need to do?

First of all, you might be sitting there thinking: "How on earth am I going to do this in a week?" On the other hand, you might be thinking: "Do it in a week? No problem."

If you belong to the first category I would say: "Stay calm, what you have to do is possible." If you belong to the second category (although if you do, you may be unlikely to be reading this!), I would say: "That's fine, but please make sure that you have a full appreciation of the different elements of the task in hand.

Unless you have already planned what to say, the first thing to do, if you haven't already, is to go to our website and get the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets be it one for a Groom, Best Man or Father of the Bride. You will be able to work best with the pack if you print it off.

Plan your Preparations Next, consider your schedule for the week ahead.

How much free time do you have? Is it spaced evenly throughout the week? When can you rely on not being interrupted? Are your lunch hours available? Is it possible for you to book a day off work?

You need to set aside time to assess your Master Class material and make your selections from it, time to think up your own personal material, time to collate it all together and order it, time to get it onto cards (which you need to schedule in time to buy), and time to practise.

At the start of the week prepare a schedule charting exactly when you will do what and for how long. As the week progresses, keep track of how you're doing; if you lose time on one activity you'll have to speed up somewhere else. However please don't worry; there has been many a wedding speaker who has been in this situation and has succeeded massively, especially those who have been smart enough to take advantage of our Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets !!

Work out What to say

You can give a completely successful wedding speech simply by using one of the examples in our speeches packs. You can improve on it by adding two or three personal reminiscences, thus customising it for your particular wedding and guests.

So, you have your pack. Read through it - all of it (I know there's a lot, but it's a great opportunity to practise your speed reading!) and highlight jokes, quotes and toasts that appeal to you.

Whenever you have a spare moment, consider your Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets; remember that it is quite alright to choose sections from different speeches to create your own composite speech.

As you walk or commute around trawl through your memories for anecdotes etc which you can use. Carry a notebook so that you can write them down straight away. Don't leave it at the office! Also, do read the help files on our website; there is a great deal of useful advice on matters ranging from preparing your notes to practising and control of nerves.

Practice and Rehearse And lastly, don't panic. And to help you not to panic, be sure to get some practising in - as much as you can find time for.

Lots of practise won't make a bad speech good, but no practise is likely to make an otherwise good speech bad. No-one wants this to happen, least of all you.
Practise in front of a mirror and pretend that you are there at the top table, delivering to a packed house before taking your seat to massive applause.

If you follow these guidelines plus those in our Help Files and choose material from our pack which you genuinely like, backing it up with two or three solid personal contributions, it is difficult to see anything stopping you from being an immense success.

Bruno Barton :)

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Wedding Speech, One Month Time Table

Wedding Speeches - The One Month Timetable

I have one month to prepare for my wedding speech - what do I need to do?

You will save a great deal of time and the quality of your material will be assured if you buy the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets Today !! click this link to find out why today is your best time to lock in to our great deal !!

In this article I assume that you are joining us today :)

If your choice is to write the whole of your speech yourself without our material, you must allow extra time to find or create you own humour and linking sentences and to craft the tone and style appropriately to your personality, audience and the occasion.

Your first action, then, is to download the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets.

Once you have accessed your speech pack, read through the 5 speeches provided, decide whether you will use one speech as it is, or if you will mix and match from the 5 speeches.

Read through the extra jokes, quotes and toasts and put a tick beside the ones you like.

Spend a little time collating extra information from your memories and research with friends and relatives, and jot down any jokes that you have heard which are appropriate.

Also, do have a go at creating some original humour for the personalities involved in your wedding. This may not be as difficult for you as it sounds. Please see my earlier Bruno's Blog Posts for a whole series on this subject.

Decide on your 'final' material for the speech, bearing in mind you only need 15 or so snippets or jokes to fill 5 minutes when wrapped with linking material.

If you are unsure of any of this material you may wish at this stage to bounce it off someone to ensure that it is inoffensive to everybody.

The next stage is to arrange the material in a logical order, interspersing it with the material chosen from the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets.

Now work on the exact wording you will be using for your opening. It is great to start off almost any speech in any circumstance with humour. If you can get them to laugh near the beginning it relaxes both yourself and the audience. If you can do this, everything else should be plain sailing.

So choose your opening remarks very carefully indeed; get an early laugh and you're on your way.

I recommend choosing your conclusion next, so that you are establishing the beginning and the end first, making them witty, sincere and profound. Your speech is like a bridge crossing a river; it needs solid foundations before the graceful arch can be constructed.

In writing the links you need words and phrases which smoothly progress from one passage to the next. Use transitional phrases like 'by the way' 'which reminds me' or 'changing the subject completely' and 'which leads me onto'.

Conclude you speech with a toast, chosen from those provided in the speech pack or one of your own.

Now put your speech away for a couple of days. Come back to it refreshed and go through it with a fine toothcomb. Do you still find the humour funny? Are you happy with the choice of linking words? How about the exact wording of the jokes and anecdotes?

Stringently remove and replace less effective words throughout the speech.

Put the wedding speech away for a couple of days.

Do the same again until you are fully happy with the material.

When satisfied with the content, you will need to reduce it to a set of notes on cards. Full guidelines are given in the "Free Help" section of our website. These guidelines have been developed from my own experiences over nearly 20 years as a speaker. They work for me, they will work for you too.

When you have your notes, I urge you to practise, practise, practise as much as you can. As you are preparing several weeks in advance, you have the opportunity to rehearse to such an extent that on the day you will know your material backwards. Make the most of this! Again the place to look for guidelines is the "Practise" section of our "Free Help" page.

I hope this all goes really well for you. If you follow this advice, it will.

Bruno Barton :)

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HELP! Wedding Speech One Day Time Table

HELP! I've only got one day! Wedding Speeches - The One Day Timetable

So you've only got today to produce an effective, stimulating, entertaining and sincere wedding speech. Are you panicking?

Don't !! We are able to provide you with all the ingredients you will need to do well tomorrow.

The first thing to consider is whether you can take any time off work - the more the better. But even if you end up with only an hour to produce a few words, using that time in preparations will definitely help you.

Step by step, First - Download the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets from http://www.fineweddingspeeches.com/

Even if your available time is tiny, you now have 5 suitable wedding speeches, and you can:

choose which of our five speeches suits you best and use it "as is" except for the insertion of the correct Bride and Groom's names throughout. Each one of our speeches will stand up in front of any audience.

If you can engineer more time, all well and good. Search through your memory for an appropriate anecdote or two to personalise the speech a little. Use your time to intersperse the material into your chosen speech, perhaps with selected material from the jokes and quotes and toasts collections.

Prepare your speaker's notes: Produce your final notes - type or write them on to cards. If none are available use paper, but not full sheets of A4. With these in front of you any otherwise imperceptible shake of your hands due to nerves will be magnified out of all proportion by the windsock-like flapping of the paper. Rather, trim the sheets across the middle to make A5 sheets and use those.

When writing notes, never split a sentence over two cards - you will find yourself stopping in the middle of a crucial statement or joke and searching wildly for its punchline.

Make sure that the cards are in the right order - number them and either staple them together or punch a hole and use a treasury tag.

Print off / photocopy a second set and keep it in your pocket, just in case of accidental loss of the master set.

Rehearse !! Do try to find the time to read through the speech out loud at least once - more if you can. Practise will help your confidence and make the occasion less of an ordeal.

Deliver your wedding speech

When you stand up to "deliver" to "perform" your speech: don't belt through the speech through out of control nerves - breathe deeply, force yourself to proceed through the speech at a measured pace with plenty of pauses to allow the audience to mull over your words, anticipate humour and appreciate your sincerity.

I can't over emphasise the importance of refraining from alcohol before the speech - if you are tipsy you will be an embarrassment to everyone, particularly yourself. Lay off the beer etc altogether until afterwards.

A closing thought: lots of people will probably offer you conflicting advice about the delivery and content of your speech - by all means consider what they say but don't be distracted from the steps you find here.

And finally, my best wishes for resounding success and a happy day.

Bruno Barton

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Creating Original Humour, Lesson Eight, Mind Mapping

Creating Original Humour for your Wedding Speech, Lesson Eight, Mind Mapping

Welcome to this month's Bruno's Blog, in which we explore the use of mind mapping to create wedding speech humour.

We are going to illustrate this technique for the wedding reception of a fictional couple, John and Miriam. John has Swiss parentage, plays the violin and enjoys Strauss waltzes and sailing.

The first thing to do is to brainstorm these subjects via mind maps. We'll tackle sailing first; next, Strauss; and finally, Switzerland.

Click below for Mind Map "Brainstorms" examples...

- Sailing
- Strauss
- Switzerland

Please note that these mind maps serve only to illustrate the method.

When I am actually creating humour I brainstorm far more information onto the mind maps than is shown, and create a mindmap for every subject under consideration.

It is not unusual for me to spend a considerable length of time searching through ten or more sheets of A4 paper filled with bubbles and links. Applying the method to this extent always produces numerous ideas for humour, several of which are normally considered excellent by my customers.

Having created these mind maps we scour them for links between subjects on the individual mind maps and between subjects on different mind maps. Amazing as it may seem, wherever there is a link there is a joke.

It will probably not be possible to generate a good joke out of every link, but please be open minded to the good and the bad. As I've said before you need to create a certain amount of chaff to get a few grains of wheat.

The links I can see are as follows (see the green highlighting):

Click below for Mind Map "Connections/links"

- Sailing
- Strauss
- Switzerland

The next step is to write down the connected subjects and convert them into jokes using the tips in my earlier articles on creating wedding speech humour.

I end up with the following; which I can tie into the wedding, many others come to mind but are not listed as being either inappropriate for a wedding reception or just not relevant to the wedding couple, families or guests.

John is of course very keen on Johann Strauss and his music. Strauss came from Vienna, a place famous for white stallions, a fairground with a giant ferris wheel and the film The Third Man.

Like John, Strauss came from a musically talented family: Johann senior, Johann junior and Levi, who was clearly the third man.

John and Miriam enjoy old time ballroom dancing, but moving on just for a moment ...

... you know the fairground in Vienna? It reminds me of "The Waltzers" - remember them? ... the fairground ride which twirls you round-about and violently from side to side? ...

... well, Miriam confided in me once that dancing with John was a bit like that. ... And has asked me to warn you all to stand well clear when she and John lead the wedding dances later on.

As you probably know John enjoys Straus waltzes and playing the violin: Waltzes of course have 3 beats to the bar, so if Strauss had a car you could imagine his number plate being "123 123"; as for the composer Sousa, he wrote marches so his number plate would be "12 12"; meanwhile, Wagner's (Vargner) would be determined by his answer to the question: "Do you spell your name with a V?" To which he would say: "Nein W" (9 W).

I can say at this point that John, as a fiddle player, is saving up for registration "V10 LIN". (Oops, the "Rule of Three" suggests that I've got one too many, so I might cut one of the first three items, but I'll keep the last because it is most relevant to the wedding.)

When John inherited Swiss nationality from his mother a few years ago, the prospect of national service didn't bother him - after all, it's just a bit of ski-ing, which is great fun.

But my concern for the Swiss militia is the tools they are given to fight with: a Swiss army knife. It's a good job they haven't fought any wars for 500 years, because anyone with anything as simple as a catapult would take them to the cleaners.

It is John's Swiss heritage that has given him his immense musical ability, and which has actually won him the hand and heart of his beautiful wife today; she was smitten when she heard him playing The William Tell Overture on his alphorn. Incidentally, did you know that the only reason William Tell shot the apple off his son's head was to put it in his muesli; which of course is the only breakfast John ever eats.

John has recently taken up sailing; I believe that this is to make up for the numerical deficiencies of the Swiss navy. There was the time he took Miriam out in his boat and the weather suddenly became choppy; Miriam was less than impressed with him when he started "yodelling" over the side of the boat.

The Swiss are known for cuckoo clocks, precision and accuracy - their buses and trains are always on time and dovetail together beautifully. What we have here is something else that dovetails together beautifully, another perfect connection! the wedding of John and Miriam. Etc etc.

It takes a little effort to get going with Mind Mapping, but it's well worth it, because with a bit of practise you'll be able to come up with jokes on any subject.

Mind maps are a technique that you will find easier and more effective, the more you practice them, they are frequently used at work and in business. Using mind mapping for your wedding speech may just be the start of learning the technique for other aspects of life.

I wish you every success on the wedding day.

Bruno Barton

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Creating Original Humour, Lesson Seven, Lateral Thinking

Creating Original Humour for your Wedding Speeches, Lesson Seven, Lateral Thinking

Hi folks. We're going to investigate lateral thinking as a way of inventing humour when writing or adapting your wedding speech.

The term "lateral thinking" was coined in the seventies by Edward de Bono. He wrote a lot of books on creative thinking and devised a great many tools to help generate original thought. One of these was the simple trick of looking at "opposites", and it is this which I am going to share with you in this article.

It is well worth remembering not just for creating humour but for any situation where you require original thinking, eg problem solving, coming up with an invention, a business idea or lyrics for a song. I have used it for all of these purposes.

So much for the preamble - let's get down to the nitty gritty. Let's start the process of generating humour ideas using lateral thinking - thinking "sideways" rather than the usual and obvious frontal assault.

STEP 1 Choose a subject. I recommend that you work through these steps for each main subject in your speech. I' m going to illustrate the method using the theme of football - but you can use any theme at all.

STEP 2 Brainstorm everything that you know about the subject:

FOOTBALL:ball, round, leather, premier league, 3 other leagues, goalkeeper, tall first half, grass, stadium ,supporters, boots, studs, cup.

Obviously there is a lot more that you could put down here, but I think that' s probably enough for illustrative purposes.

STEP 3
ball
round ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... square
leather ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... made of soap => imperial leather
premier league ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... bottom league
3 other leagues ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 20,000 leagues

goalkeeper
tall ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... short goalie
first half ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... five pints
grass ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... astroturf
stadium ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... amphitheatre
supporters ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... under-miners
boots ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... wellies, flippers
studs ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... stilts
cup ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... saucer

STEP 4 Look at the opposites with an open mind for germs of humour - explore the possibilities:

Square ball: at least it wouldn' t move when you were taking a penalty.

Ball made of soap: in rain it would produce suds and get steadily smaller 20,000 leagues under the sea: underwater football - I' m sure we' ve all seen many a game played under slanting rain.

Short goalie: how about Ronnie Corbett?

First half: pint, cocktail, short Astroturf: Do you prefer grass or Astroturf? I don' t know, I' ve never smoked Astroturf (with due credit to John Sullivan)

Amphitheatre: Throw the players to the lions? Sometimes they deserve it .

Underminers: a race of goblins burrowing under the ground sowing discontent.Wellies, flippers: ideal wear for underwater football Stilts instead of studs: useful to make Ronnie tall enough to be an ace keeper Saucer: Where do you find a cup and saucer? In a canteen

STEP 5 Now we need to turn as many of these ideas into jokes as possible.

A lot of them have humour in them but are difficult to create a punchline for, eg the underminers, the soap-ball etc.

This is just the way it goes - you have to churn out a lot of ideas to get the few that will work. Incidentally, Eddie Izzard generally creates two hours of guff in order to find two minutes worth of useful material.

But I urge you to persist - your wedding speech can benefit immensely from that two minutes.

Bearing in mind the advice given earlier in my columns about humour which is NOT appripriate on the wedding day, we can now attempt to create jokes.

From the above, in addition to the Only Fools... joke, two possibles stand out for me (you might see others): " first half" and " saucer" .

What can we make of these? I like:
He' s still interested in football, but he gets tired after the first half, so he goes on shorts instead.

As for "saucer" and "canteen," how about this: There was a fire at the ground. The manager panicked. "The cup, the cup!" he cried."Don't worry", said the fire-chief, " it didn't even get as far as the canteen."

I hope that you can see the potential of this way of thinking, tying it in with the joke creation methods outlined earlier, and I hope you manage to use it to great effect on the big day.

Good luck!

Bruno Barton :)

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Creating Original Humour, Lesson Six, Rhyme & Acronyms

Creating Original Humour for your Wedding Speeches, Lesson Six, Rhyme and Acronyms

Hello folks and welcome to this weeks article, where we look at the creation of humour using rhyme and acronyms.

First of all: rhyme. This can be an amusing way to engage your wedding speech audience.

When giving an after dinner speech I like to start by telling the audience something relevant to them before continuing with the main thrust of my speech.
For instance if I am speaking at a Rotary Club I tell them about the time I was taken on to entertain at a Rotary-organised event called the Belbroughton Scarecrow Weekend (where people dress as scarecrows and raise money for charity).

I go on to tell them that I only accepted the job because I thought it was the Belbroughton Hair Grow Weekend. As I am bald this generally raises my first laugh.

So how do you go about inventing rhyme jokes? As ever, begin by brainstorming everything that you know about the Bride, Groom, their hobbies etc.

Next, go out and buy a rhyming dictionary. (Mine cost me £8.99). This is a useful tool for the future if you plan to write poems or songs, but in the short term it could provide you with a great laugh or two to enrich your speech.

Let's look at a few examples:

Example 1) Take a Groom called John who happens to enjoy the great outdoors, particularly gold panning holidays in the Rockies. Bearing in mind that you are allowed to bend the truth on these occasions, we could relate a tale about gold panning using a non-stick frying pan (possibly taking in the Groom's cooking ability at the same time).

Example 2) Refer to the trusty rhyming dictionary. As Christian names are not generally in the index we need to look up a word that "John" rhymes with, such as "on".

Scanning through the rhymes for "on" and pulling out relevant ones could easily lead to the following; "Ladies and gentlemen, following (my story about gold panning etc) I'd like to re-mane John as Teflon John from the Yukon."

A similar process leads to:

No sleeve Steve from Tel Aviv - useful for a vest-wearing kibbutz-visiter.

Bonehead Fred from Birkenhead - for a scouser who keeps his hair cropped
Etc etc

I hope you get the idea. Investigate the names of all the relevant wedding participants: the Bride and Groom's Christian and surnames and their nicknames, their home towns and their jobs etc. You may come up with an absolute corker.

Acronyms Moving on to acronyms, I suppose the first thing for me to do is define what an acronym is. It's a word or phrase the letters of which each stand for another word.

Eg: DIY - Do It Yourself. Incidentally, I don't do DIY, I do GMI - Get Men In.
Which is both a rhyme and and acronym.

More examples:
GOLFER - Groing Old Looking For Early Retirement
LOMBARD - Lots Of Money But A Right Dipstick

Once again, brainstorming is the starting point. Fill a page or two with notes about the couple - names, interests, personal histories.

Spend some time creating acronyms from them. Here are a few to start you off:
WOOF - Well Off Older Folk (good if either the bride or groom has a dog)
SITCOM - Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage
HUSBAND - Huge Ugly Squat Bogeyman Acquires Nubile Damsel
BRIDE - Best Ruddy Idea Dave'S Envisaged
TAFFY - Totally Affable Financially Fantastic Yuppie
BRUMMIE - Big Robust Unassuming Midland Man Into Escapology (useful if Groom has a history of being locked in places)
JOCK - Jolly Old Can Of Kippers
GROOM - Grimy Richard Organises Opportunistic Marriage

I should say that your acronym or rhyme needs to say something about the Bride or Groom which echoes what you are saying about them anyway - repeating again or adding to it in a witty way. Repetition of a theme can be very funny.

For example, after relating a story about the Groom being locked in a department store loo for 3 hours before breaking out, you can say (if he's a Brummie):
"And so you see it's true that Tom is a true Brummie, by which I mean that he is a big robust unassuming midland man into escapology."

I wish you well in your voyage of joke discovery and know that if you have bought the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets and applied my tips you will be well on the way to success on the Big Day.

Bruno Barton


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Creating Original Humour, Lesson Five, Anagrams

Creating Original Humour for your Wedding Speech, Lesson Five, Using Anagrams

In this article I demonstrate how to create and use anagrams for a wedding speech to further enhance your armoury of humour creating skills.

Anagrams can be very funny and a well chosen one can go down a treat.

Anagrams are a rich load to tap into: anagrams of the Groom's name, the Bride's name, the Bride and Groom's Christian names, the Groom's football team , the parents names, the towns where the families live, the location of the wedding (town, venue) etc are all appropriate subjects for an anagram.

There are a couple of ways that you can create them:-

The first, the hardest, is to toy with the word / phrase / name you wish to anagramise with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pen and your brain.
The other way is to use anagram-finding services on the internet, some of these are on-line others are downloadable software.

Some of the available ones are:-
WordSmith Anagram Artist, Anagram Genius

If you search for "Anagrams" or "Anagram Services online" at a search engine you will find many online sources of anagrams. Some are simple to use as well as free but leave you having to search all the letter combinations to identify useful or funny ones.

This can be extremely laborious, and I would recommend not being caught up with such a service, and instead using more sophisticated products.

The one which I like best is Anagram Genius.

You can download a free version which is quite serviceable or pay 30 dollars or so for the Gold version which is excellent for our purposes. During the rest of this discussion I am referring to Anagram Genius, but the same methods work with any anagram service.

Please bear in mind that for our purposes an anagram doesn't have to be absolutely exactly correct - if it suits your comic purposes by all means change the odd letter - if done sparingly it is very unlikely that anyone will challenge you on this, even if they notice.

However you may well feel more satisfied by a completely accurate anagram. Fortunately it is possible to make some tremendously funny or appropriate anagrams.

This is how I do it:-

Your first step is to list the names, ideas etc which you intend to anagramise.
To achieve useable anagrams you have to try different permutations - for instance "Mark and Anne" on its own might not give the software enough to work on, but try it first and then try Mark and Anne Smith (for example), and if you don't get anything useable from that expand it a little more, eg: Anne and Mark Smith Aston Villa fans.

Try the name of the church where the wedding is taking place, the name of the reception venue, the Bride's maiden name, etc, etc

An effective anagram program will:-

sort the anagrams in order of %age effectiveness, ie best anagrams first use artificial intelligence to arrange each anagram into roughly grammatical sentences, and includes slang words (but be sure not to use undue coarse language!)

In other words it can do a lot of the 'donkey work' for you, by identifying the anagrams which are most likely to be useful.

So, plug in the name / phrase you wish to anagramise. But what are you looking for?

Ideally a connection with a facet of the Groom's / Brides personality or personal history.

Anagram examples
Here are a couple of examples taken from speeches written for Sparkling Speech (my tailored speech-writing web service) customers.

[1] I wrote a speech for one Best Man, whose best friend, the Groom, had, for mist-shrouded historical reasons, the nickname Dom. The Best Man was delighted when I shared with him the choice nugget that Dom's full name was an anagram of "warm old sniveller", and with my suggestion that in his speech he should propose a re-name to "Wos".

[2] Another customer, a Groom, was a staunch member of an Elim Pentecostal Church known for their passionate singing. Anagram Genius told me that "Elim Pentecostal Church" was an anagram of "ace tonsil temple", a fact which went down a storm when he delivered his speech.

[3] For another example, consider a Bride who makes a habit of collecting shopping coupons and is getting married at St Thomas' Church, Bournville. What could be more appropriate than to discover that she should be wooed by "voucher charms not bullshit"?

[4] A good prospect is the Groom's / Bride's favourite sporting team. Try just the first part of the name, then if that yields nothing, add the rest of the name. For instance, try "Manchester United" and if that fails, try "Manchester United Football Club", etc

[5] Using anagram creation software I have found that "Aston Villa Football Club" is an anagram of "full vocal slob battalion," "Manchester United " is an anagram of "dream stench unite", and "Manchester United Football Club" is an anagram of "accentuated run-of-the-mill blobs."

I have to say that it takes a little time to find anagrams like these, but I would say that if you have seven or eight names / combinations to search under, you'll probably be able to do them all in a couple of hours.

Anagram Genius has a couple of extra features, one of which is its archive collection of the very best anagrams created, arranged under headings as diverse as sport, TV and politics. It's well worth having a quick look to see if there's anything there you can use.

One example: "Manchester United footballer David Beckham" is an anagram of "Man, the bloke blundered! Fetch Victoria Adams!"

You can use anagram software to create entertaining aliases. For example, if your name happened to be Slobodan Milosevic and you were female, you might decide on an alias of Miss Cleo Viola Bond.

One final note on anagrams: don't overload your speech with them. I think the rule of three applies well here.

Use them sparingly, no more than three and if you use more than one try to use anagrams that complement and support each other.

And remember, a lot of work has been done for you in the Master Class Wedding Speech Secrets :)

Bruno Barton


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