Free Birthday Speech Tips
Welcome to my free birthday speech tips page.
Birthdays are a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joy of living, family, and friends while focussing on that one special person whose 'day' it is. After the 'Happy Birthday' song is sung, the candles have been blown out, the wish made and the cake eaten, it's time for the speeches to begin.
Giving the birthday toast can be the ultimate enduring gift. Words live on in the minds of those who hear them long after the bouquets of flowers drop their petals and the last of the chocolates has been eaten. A birthday speech given from the heart with love, wit and wisdom can last a lifetime.
Use these free birthday speech tips to tailor your talk
Before you write the actual speech get the background information you need.
- Is the planned birthday celebration formal or informal?
- Who is invited? Is it strictly family? Family and friends? Work colleagues?
- Are you the only speaker? If so, what theme would the family/friends/work colleagues like you to focus on? What tone would they like you to use?
( Generally, the tone is light, humorous, sincere and positive. Yes, you may tease the birthday person a little but within bounds of the occasion. Too much roasting, use of language too spicy or smutty or delving into sensitive subject areas could ruin the event. Be careful!)
If you're not the only speaker: who are the others and what are they likely to cover? Also find out where on the speaking order you come.
- How long are you expected to speak for?
Do you want to know more about birthday customs?
This Wikipedia entry provides a great overview of the history of birthday celebrations in Western Culture as well as charts of the zodiac, birth stones and flowers.

My flower is the humble but beautiful forget-me-not. What's yours? A rose? A violet or maybe a carnation?
There are many free birthday speech tips here to make your speech memorable. Do take a look.
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Now that you have your background notes you are ready to begin writing.
Here are some more free birthday speech tips to guide you:
And the last free birthday speech tips are:
- Remember to include a thank-you for the opportunity to prepare and give a speech. It could be either at the beginning or end or in both places!
- After your closing summary invite everyone to raise a toast to the birthday person
- Write your speech notes up on cue-cards to avoid the embarrassment of stumbling or temporary memory loss.
(If you need help to prepare cue-cards or don't know what they are go to my 'how to make and use cue cards' page. You'll find full explanations there. A good set will help you deliver your speech with confidence.)
- Remember to run through your speech several times before delivery.
Handy Hint: Read my page on 'how to rehearse'. Rehearsing does make a difference. Try it and see for yourself. You'll find out if your speech is too long, too short, not funny enough, phrased awkwardly... Rehearsing exposes any glitches and allows you to fix them privately.
- Give yourself a congratulatory glass of wine or two when you've finished speaking, not before!
PS.
If it's your birthday and you're delivering a speech to welcome and thank everyone for coming to celebrate it with you, apply the relevant free birthday speech tips to yourself. And, yes, you can toast yourself!
Did I miss something? Do you have special birthday speech tips, quotations of your own?
Are you willing to share them?
Readers are always on the look out for that extra-special suggestion that will make a birthday celebration magical. And I'm always keen to have more.
You've read my suggestions. Now, let's hear it from you!
There's a page waiting for your special birthday speech tip here.
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