As mentioned in my previous blog, it transpires that 66% of grooms felt that trying to memorise their speech made their fears worse. But why?
When I interviewed the grooms concerned about their wedding day nerves I discovered that the pressure of trying to remember everything, especially on a day as big as your wedding enhances fear and paricularly anxiety. In effect fear of forgetting or going blank during the speech adds to all the other things that grooms get anxious about on their wedding day, enhansing their fear and the pressure of the day.
So what should you do if you don’t memorise your speech? In my next blog I will give you some tips on how to do a cracking speech without memorising the whole thing.
