Groom speech generator
The groom speech, built from your own story.
Yes, you have to speak. Talk it through for ten minutes and walk away with a complete groom speech: the thank-yous, the turn to your partner, and a toast. Free draft.
No signup. The free draft is the whole speech, not a teaser.
01 — A sample
Read one before you write a word.
What a ten-minute conversation about the two of you turns into. Around four minutes out loud, a real laugh early and a catch in your voice by the toast.
I make maps for a living. I draw the roads, I name the rivers, I am professionally responsible for helping strangers know where they are. On our third date I drove to the wrong town. Not the wrong street. The wrong town, forty minutes in the opposite direction, while Cara sat at a restaurant getting steadily colder and texting a man who could not locate a city he had personally mapped.
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I'm Rhys, by the way, and I'd like to thank you all for coming. A few quick ones before I dig myself a deeper hole. To both sets of parents, thank you for today and for raising two people who somehow found each other. To the bridesmaids, you look wonderful and you got Cara here on time, which is more than I managed on date three. And to my best man, we'll talk later about what you're planning to say.
Back to the wrong town. I finally arrived an hour late, full of excuses, and Cara didn't say a word about it. She just slid her phone across the table with the route already open and said, I'll get us home, you sit there and look pretty. And that was the whole thing right there, on date three, before either of us knew it mattered. I am the one with the maps. She is the one who actually knows where we're going.
That's been true ever since, and not just with directions. I plan things on paper beautifully and then walk into a wall. Cara looks at the same situation, picks the one route that works, and never makes me feel like the idiot who drew the map upside down. When I wanted to leave a steady job and go freelance, I made a spreadsheet with eleven tabs. She read it, closed the laptop, and said, you've already decided, you're just looking for someone to be brave with you. Then she was. She covered our rent for four months without once holding it over me, and she still won't let me thank her for it properly, so I'm doing it here where she can't stop me.
Here is the thing I most want to say while everyone's listening. I had a rough couple of years before I met Cara, the kind where you stop expecting much. I went quiet and small and I got used to it. She didn't try to fix me or talk me out of it. She just kept turning up, with terrible films and good soup, until one day I noticed I'd been laughing for a week straight and hadn't clocked when it started. She found me when I genuinely had no idea where I was, and she walked me back out. That's not a small thing to do for a person. It might be the whole job.
Cara, I have spent my whole career pretending I know where everything is. The truth is I was lost for years and didn't have a word for it until you. You are the only place I've ever been completely sure of. I don't need a map for you. I could find you in the dark.
To our friends and family, look after this one when we're old and I've forgotten where I've parked, which on current form is any day now. To Cara's gran, who told me on day one that I'd do, thank you, that meant more than you know.
Everyone, on your feet and glasses up. To my wife. To Cara. I spent my whole life learning where everything is, and the only thing I ever needed to know was you. May we always get home, may you always do the navigating, and may I never again be trusted to find the restaurant.
Spoken by Rhys, a cartographer from Nottingham who makes maps for a living and still drove to the wrong town on date three.
02 — How it works
Three steps, no blank page.
Talk about them
Answer a few questions out loud, like a phone call with a friend who takes notes.
Get the whole draft
A complete speech on your cue card: free, the full thing, no signup.
Make it yours
Nudge it funnier or more heartfelt, line by line, until it sounds like you.
The $39 Speech Pack adds four styles, rehearsal mode, and printable cue cards. Only if you want it.
03 — More examples
See it done a few ways.
Full groom speeches about the bride, balanced funny and heartfelt. Hear how one true story can carry the whole thing, then tell your own.
The Trivia Night
Spoken by Wes, a high-school science teacher from Columbus who bombed a biology question in front of the woman he was trying to impress
I teach high-school biology. I have explained the human heart to teenagers four times a day for nine years.
Read the full example →The Wrong Train
Spoken by Sam, 34, a paramedic from Liverpool
The first proper thing I ever said to Nora was a lie, and I have been quietly grateful for it ever since.
Read the full example →
04 — Questions
Groom, answered.
How long should a groom speech be?
Aim for 500 to 700 words, which is roughly three and a half to five minutes spoken at a natural pace. Grooms run long because there’s a lot to say and a lot of people to thank, but a tight five minutes that lands beats a rambling ten. Time it out loud, and remember that nerves and a glass of champagne will speed you up by about a fifth on the day.
What do I actually say in a groom speech?
Lead with quick, warm thank-yous to both families and the wedding party, fold in one small joke, then pivot hard to your partner, because she’s what everyone came to hear. Tell one true story about the two of you, make yourself the punchline and her the one who saves it, then turn to her by name and say the thing you don’t say enough. ToastSmith walks you through each of those out loud.
Who am I supposed to thank?
Traditionally both sets of parents, the wedding party, and the guests for coming, and often the bride’s parents for their daughter. Keep it to four or five lines, slip one light joke in so it breathes, and get to your partner fast. The mistake is treating the thank-yous as the speech instead of the doorway into it. Name people warmly, be specific where you can, then move on.
Will it sound like a robot wrote it?
No, because it’s built from your stories, told the way you told them. The interview pulls the real moments between you and your partner, and the draft uses those. AI shapes the structure; your details do the talking, and you approve and tweak every line until it sounds like you, especially the part where you turn to your bride.
What happens to the stories I tell you?
Your audio is deleted the moment it’s transcribed, and drafts you don’t purchase are purged after 30 days. Your stories are never used to train anything. They exist to write your speech, and then they’re gone. That isn’t fine print, it’s the deal: the most personal thing about a wedding speech is the stories in it, so they stay yours.
What if I don’t like it?
Then it’s free. The first draft costs nothing, and the $39 Speech Pack is covered by a 14-day, no-questions money-back guarantee. We’d rather refund you than have you stand up with a speech you don’t believe in. The whole point is that you walk away proud, so if it doesn’t sound like you, you don’t pay.
The free draft is the whole speech.
Not a teaser, not a locked ending. The full text, beginning to toast, with no signup.
If it doesn’t sound like you, it’s free.
The Speech Pack is covered by a 14-day, no-questions money-back guarantee.
Your stories stay yours.
Audio deleted the moment it’s transcribed, unpurchased drafts purged after 30 days, never used to train anything.
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05 — Not the groom?
There’s a tool for every seat at the mic.
Same ten-minute interview, written for your spot in the day.
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