Star Wedding Words

Are you giving a speech at your wedding?

Or are you giving a speech on someone else's big day? Is everyone (including tthe Best Man or Woman, or proud parents) confident that they are in control of the content of ttheir speeches and that ttheir appearance in the spotlight will do justice to the occasion? OR IS THERE SOME ANXIETY IN THE AIR! If so, don't worry! That's completely normal. Speaking in public for the inexperienced can apparently compete with the stress levels of jumping out of a plane! But I can help and make sure speeches deliver not only great content but are also presented with the confidence of an experienced public speaker or even a stand-up comedian! In my career, I have been an actor, theatre director, and TV writer, working on shows such as This Life, Monarch of The Glen, As If, East Enders, Casualty, and others. I've coached top actors in comic timing and nerve control and woven stories with humour and romance. I can do the same for you. I've been using my skills to write wedding speeches and coach presentations for the last 10 years. Patrick Wilde is a professional speech writer and coach based out of Basingstoke, Hampshire, but can work with clients all over the UK.

As a gay man I grew up when Section 28 was on the statute books and the age of consent 21!  I have fought for LGBT+ rights all my adult life, as a writer and activist. As an activist and writer (including the award-wining film Get Real) LGBT+ people being allowed to marry was the proudest moment of my life.

All weddings are different. I take time to discuss and get to know the varying needs and of the participants - no cut and paste jobs!  As an experienced  TV and Theatre writer and director I am am able enhance the thoughts and feelings of the speakers so there words come from the heart.

After decades of fighting for LGBT+ rights, nothing gives me greater pleasure and satisfaction professionally than to help LGBT+ people proudly declare their love publicly.

Golden Star

As well as being a television writer I am also a West End Director, so you will receive everything mentioned in the Silver Service package, but also up to three hour long online sessions in which I will coach you in the presentation of the speech to make you a STAR! Silver Service I will send you a form with a few questions for you to fill in so I can get a handle on your connection to the wedding and your requirements. This will enable me to decide how to make your speech a STAR turn.We will then speak either online or in person and I will make suggestions as to how the speech may go. Then I’ll write the speech from scratch, using your material to tell your story just as I would if writing words for a TV star. We can then have further discussions about what you are and are not happy with until we get it right. Fine Tune Send me the speech you have already written, and I will use my script writing expertise to read and analyse it. Then we will discuss potential changes. Based on our discussion I will then use my years of creating stories with emotion and humour to polish and edit the speech to give it STAR quality.