Wedding speech writer for best man, maid of honor, and parent toasts
Three 3-4 minute speeches in heartfelt, funny, and classic tones, plus a 30-second cocktail-hour version — with pause cues, glass-raise marks, and a printable card.
$3.99
Works in Claude (Pro/Max/Team) or ChatGPT (Plus/Team) · paid AI plan required
✓Both Claude + ChatGPT packages included — you can't pick the wrong one.
Updated
Included
013 complete drafts at three tones — heartfelt, funny, classic — so you pick the one that sounds like you
02Every line marked with delivery cues: pause here, look at the bride, raise your glass on the toast
03Separate 30-second cocktail-hour version included — the one nobody remembers to write
04Role-aware: best man goes edgier than mother of the bride; dry weddings swap 'raise your glasses' for 'please stand'
05Built around ONE anchor anecdote — not a montage of compliments that the room tunes out
06Outputs a printable HTML card plus plain text you can paste into your phone Notes app
What it does
You've got a wedding in three weeks, one half-formed memory about a road trip, and the toast lands somewhere between the salad and the entrée. This is a wedding speech writer for best man, maid of honor, and parent of the bride toasts that takes the bullets you actually have — your role, the couple's names, how you know them, one or two stories — and writes three finished speeches in different tones. Not a fill-in-the-blank template. An actual speech you could read tonight.
Each 3-4 minute draft follows the 6-beat structure that keeps a multi-generational room engaged: hook, bridge, anchor anecdote, pivot, address the partner, toast. Inline delivery cues tell you where to pause, when to look at the bride, when to lift the glass. The bundled role conventions, clean-humor playbook, and anecdote patterns mean the output knows that bachelor party stories always bomb, that the father-of-the-bride toast is 4-5 minutes instead of 3, and that 'L'chaim' is the closer at a Jewish wedding.
Works in Claude or ChatGPT — no install. Includes a 30-second cocktail-hour micro-version for when Aunt Linda corners you and asks you to 'say a few words.'
Frequently asked
How do I write a best man speech in a week without a real story?
Give it your role, the couple's names, and the relationship duration — that's enough. The skill builds the anchor anecdote from Pattern 1 or 2 (the time he showed up, the habit that reveals character), brackets every specific so you can swap your real detail in, and produces three full speeches in one pass. Sparse input is the default case, not the exception.
Does this just spit out an outline or does it write the full toast?
Full toast. Three of them. Each 3-4 minutes spoken, ~450-550 words, with delivery cues. You can paste the heartfelt version into Google Docs tonight and read it at rehearsal tomorrow.
Can I use this for a maid of honor speech or parent of the bride toast, not just best man?
Yes — every role has its own conventions baked in. Maid of honor leans heartfelt, mother-of-the-groom thanks the other family, father-of-the-bride gets 4-5 minutes instead of 3. Tell it your role and it adjusts the structure, length, and what counts as a land mine.
My situation is complicated — dry wedding, blended family, second marriage. Will it handle that?
Those are tested cases. Dry weddings swap 'raise your glasses' for 'please stand with me.' Second weddings skip 'finally' and 'this time' language. Religious families get a blessing closer instead of a frat-style toast. Tell it the context in your bullets.
Why not just ask ChatGPT to write a wedding speech for free?
You'll get something vague, slightly formal, no delivery cues, wrong length, and the same opener every other guest is using. This skill has role conventions, the 6-beat structure, the clean-humor playbook, and the 30-second micro-version baked in. The difference is visible in the first paragraph.
Install — no Terminal required
After checkout you land on a page with a one-click download and a pre-built install prompt. Pick the AI you already pay for — both packages are included, so you can't pick wrong.
What you'll see the second your payment clears
Your license key
ST-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX · permanent
Pre-built install prompt⧉ Copy
ChatGPT package (ZIP)⬇ Download
No setup work before you buy — copy, paste, done.
Have Claude Pro, Max, or Team?
Copy the prompt, paste into Claude
Copy the pre-built install prompt from the success page, paste it into any Claude Code chat, and Claude installs the skill itself — about 10 seconds. Using the app instead? Drop the downloaded folder into a Claude Project's knowledge and ask Claude to use it.
Have ChatGPT Plus or Team?
Build a Custom GPT — ~2 minutes
Click Download ChatGPT package (included with every purchase).
Unzip it — inside is a SETUP.md and a knowledge/ folder.
Go to chatgpt.com → your profile → My GPTs → Create a GPT → Configure.
Paste the Name, Description, and Instructions from SETUP.md into the matching fields.
Under Knowledge, upload every file in the knowledge/ folder.
Click Create/Save, open your GPT, and describe your task in plain English.
A paid plan on either platform is required — Claude (Pro, Max, or Team) or ChatGPT (Plus or Team). Comfortable with Terminal? A one-line npx skilltree-network install path is available too.