MJGJSee a sample

A wedding speech made of your own stories.

Just been asked to speak? Start with the stories you've forgotten you have.

A guest in a green dress raising a glass to give a toast at a long candlelit wedding table

Your answer

Sample

We met in a flat with no heating and one working hob. Dan burned the rice on night one, then put the smoke alarm on the table and called it dinner music. That was when I

Two friends laughing on the end of a lake dock
Two friends cooking in a small kitchen at night
Two friends sitting on an old car above the sea

Memories this answer brought back

The hard part is remembering

Writing is the easy bit. What slips away is the dock, the dinner, the night the car wouldn't start. It is all still in there.

A dark green field and hedgerow under a grey evening sky, with a stone farmhouse at the edge

Dan
& Priya

Sample

Stories found so far for the speech:

  • The smoke alarm dinner
  • Priya’s 6 a.m. airport sign
  • The wrong train to Whitby
A hand holding an old snapshot of two friends laughing, above a pile of other prints

Questions first. Words after.

  1. 1We ask about the person, the years and the small moments.
  2. 2You answer in your own words, however messy.
  3. 3Your speech is built from what you said.

MJGJ won't write a word until it has interviewed you for the real stories, so the speech could only have come from you.

Dark green velvet fabric in soft folds
Sample

Meeting Dan

What is the first thing you remember him doing?

A speech that sounds like you

A sample of what comes out: the start of a best man's speech, built from the three stories above.

Dark rocky cliffs above still grey water under an overcast sky
Sample

I have known Dan for eleven years. In that time I have watched him burn the rice, catch the wrong train to Whitby, and set a smoke alarm on the table and call it dinner music.

Built from these answers

  • Smoke alarm dinner
  • Airport sign
  • Wrong train

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