Have a habit of doing this myself...
At my own wedding, my missus had written a speech that she wanted to make for all the thank yous. She wrote it four weeks beforehand and rehearsed it and had it printed on cue cards held together with a little ring, so if she dropped it, she'd not have them all out of order. I, on the other hand, scribbled some notes on the back of a business card I had in my pocket while we were eating dinner at the reception.

At the start of the year, our daughter got married, so as father of the bride, it was speech making time again. I actually wrote one, about 20 minutes before we left for the church and left it in the kitchen when we left, so had to wing it again. On both occassions every one told me how lovely my speech was :)
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 16:27, 1 reply)

Friend of mine got married
and his wife's Dad made a speech.

He started by telling a filthy joke, whereupon his (the Dad's) wife made him sit down and shut up.
(username failed moderation, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 16:41, closed)

This is genius!

( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 17:11, closed)

Someone would have probably flattened me if I had read out the nonsense we had written.
Either that or with the squaddies being there a high velocity round to the head
( spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Thu 28 Mar 2013, 17:12, closed)

Haha - yeah.
Definitely would have got shot in the head. They're so like that. Squaddies, eh, I don't know.
Twats.
( 4Q just lurking, Sat 30 Mar 2013, 7:31, closed)