Public speaking, whether it’s in front of 10 people or 100, can be intimidating, and if you’ve ever sat through a lengthy, cliché-riddled wedding speech, you know it’s not so easy to pull ...

Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette expert, says when it comes to wedding speeches – practice makes perfect! Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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A bad speech, he added, can lead to dangerous moments at a wedding. “If it’s off-color, inappropriate, boring or too long, it sucks the energy out of the wedding as food gets cold,” he said.