What actually makes this speech work
Most things advertised as a free speech generator are free until the moment they are useful. You answer the questions, you watch it generate, and the text blurs at the point it starts being about your friend rather than about weddings in general. Then it asks for a card.
The boundary here is drawn in a specific place and it is worth stating before you spend ten minutes: you get the complete structure of your speech, and the first 150 words, written from your own answers. Those opening words are the hardest part of any speech and the fastest way to tell whether the voice is right. If it sounds wrong, you close the tab having lost two minutes and no money.
What is behind the payment is the rest of the draft, two alternate tones for a room you are unsure about, the delivery notes marking where to pause and which word carries each joke, the toast lines, the vow writer, and the tool for polishing a draft you wrote yourself. One payment of $29, unlimited revisions for 60 days, no subscription.
How it works
1. Pick your role, free
Best man, maid of honor, bridesmaid, groom, bride, or parent of the couple. No account needed to start.
2. Answer seven questions, free
About two minutes of typing about your real history with the couple. Nothing is stored on a server: drafts live in your own browser.
3. Read your outline and opening, free
The full structure and the first 150 words in your voice. This is the part that tells you whether it is any good.
4. Decide, with the draft in front of you
If it sounds right, $29 unlocks the full speech, alternate tones, delivery notes, and toast lines. If it does not, you have paid nothing and given nothing.
What the output sounds like
"There is a photograph of Dan from 2011 that I was asked, very politely, not to show tonight. So I will describe it instead."
"...so I will describe it instead. [pause, two seconds] [wait for the laugh before the next line]"
Questions people actually ask
- What exactly is free?
- Choosing your role, answering the seven questions, the complete outline and structure of your speech, and the first 150 words written from your own answers. No card and no account are required for any of that.
- What costs money?
- The rest of the speech draft, two alternate tones, the delivery notes, three toast lines, the vow writer, the toast polisher for a draft you wrote yourself, and thank you notes. It is $29 once, with unlimited revisions for 60 days.
- Do I need to give an email address?
- Not for the free part. You need an account only at the point of purchase, so the unlock can be tied to you rather than to one browser.
- Is it a subscription?
- No. It is a single payment. A wedding is one event, and charging monthly for it would be an odd way to treat that.
- Where do my answers go?
- Drafts are stored in your own browser rather than in a database, and there is no account required to write one. The privacy policy sets out the detail.
Would rather write it yourself?
How to write a wedding speech: the process, in order