If you are Maid of Honor, creating a speech for your best friend can be a tricky task. This is due to the fact that best friendships are very intense relationships. Though two girlfriends might not live in the same household like sisters would, they call on each other during life?s extremes.
Being there for one another at critical points in life means that best friends know more about each other than most family members would. They share with each other their secrets, deepest emotions, fears and tears. Often, if one receives good news, it is the best friend who hears it first ? even before parents!
So when creating speeches for your best friend, it is important to capture the emotional depth of your relationship. To make the perfect speech, therefore, why not use emotions as your outline? Of course, there are many emotions out there to choose from, so you should explore lists to find the perfect ones that describe your friendship the best.
To help you in your writing, here are five common emotions with examples, to put you on your way to creating a speech that gets to the heart of the matter ? your deep, emotional bond:
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JOY
Joy is a happy emotion and, if you are best friends to this day, you have certainly experienced many joyous moments.
This is the segment of your speech where you need to share happy memories. Maybe your happiest times were going on summer vacations with her family. Perhaps your families allowed you to be together after school everyday, and you had fun rituals, games and hobbies you would do each day. Take your time and write down these joyous memories, to express the true joy you felt having her as a best friend.
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SADNESS
It isn?t inappropriate at your friend?s wedding to bring up sad times ? because your love for one another is what got you through.
Discuss specific events when your best friend relationship helped you cope with sadness. Perhaps you experienced the loss of a family member or pet, a sad breakup with a boyfriend or one of you had to move away. Think about the most memorable times when your relationship helped ease the emotion of sadness.
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FEAR
At times in life, we all feel the emotion of fear. More than ever, this is when we lean on our best friends to see us through.
When can you recall times when you felt fear and you called on your best friend for support? These can be small events, like memories of how you hated being alone in your house at night so you would talk on the phone until your parents got home. Maybe someone in your family was ill and you feared loss. Fear can even be humorous, like when you both snuck out of the house and got caught by a less-than-thrilled mom and dad. Fear is a natural and common emotion, so there are most likely many memories you could share in this category.
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LOVE
When people think of two girls who are best friends, one of the first images that comes to mind is talking about boys. Young girls are in and out of love constantly, chatting about crushes, playing games to see if they will marry ?Kevin? someday.
Love is a very strong emotion so there are likely many fun memories and feelings to discuss on this topic. Talking about 4th grade crushes will certainly bring laughs during your speech. However, don?t forget to share the emotion of love that you feel for your best friend as well.
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ANGER
Sometimes life just seems unfair, and our natural response is to feel angry at the inequity. Best friends spend a lot of time talking each other through during these times ? helping each other make lemonade out of the lemons they?ve been given.
When did your best friend help you get through anger, no matter how insignificant it may be? Maybe ?Amy? stole your ?Kevin? or your 6th grade teacher always picked on you. Perhaps you confided in your friend how unfair it was that mom made you come home by ten on weekends. It could even be a more serious event, as you grew older, where a true injustice did hit you hard and your friend got you through. No matter how serious or how small, anger is an emotion best friends experience together.
Once again, these five examples are just some of the many emotions you may have experienced with your girlfriend. Recalling deep emotions you felt are great material for your speech. Taking time to explore your deep bond and feelings is guaranteed to bring about the perfect speech.
In addition, on your best friend?s wedding day, be sure that you deliver a wonderful speech by utilizing tools designed just for you. Your speech might say everything you?d like it to, but you still have to present it and make it through when all eyes are on you. Your best friend is worth it and will absolutely feel the emotions of love and joy when listening to you deliver your special speech that was created just for her.
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