Your memory
Raw material“The Prague stag do. He wandered off to find a cashpoint and we found him two hours later giving directions to tourists. In a city he'd never been to. He thought we were the ones who got lost.”
Personal speeches, forged from real stories
A speech that sounds like you on your best day.
Tell us about the person and the moments that matter. We'll shape them into a funny, warm and genuinely personal speech — then show you the plan before you pay anything.
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Forged from your stories
We take the moments that matter and hammer them into a speech worth standing up to give.
Start with the occasion
What are you standing up to say?
Pick the moment. The interview adapts its questions, tone and structure to the speech you actually need.
Wedding speech
Best man, maid of honour, parent, or the happy couple.
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Retirement speech
Celebrate a career and send someone off in style.
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Milestone birthday
A 40th, 50th, 60th — a speech worthy of the year.
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Wedding anniversary speech
Honour a couple and the years they've shared.
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Leaving do
A warm send-off for someone moving on.
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Graduation speech
Mark an achievement and the person who earned it.
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Occasions worth getting right
A speech for every moment.
SpeechAnvil is not only for weddings. It helps with retirements, graduations, anniversaries, birthdays and leaving dos — all with the same warm, confident, story-led approach.
Speech occasion
Wedding speeches
Best man, maid of honour, bride, groom or parent speeches — warm, funny and personal, without sounding templated.
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Retirement speeches
Celebrate the person behind the career, the shared history and the moments the room will instantly recognise.
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Graduation speeches
Mark the hard work, the pride and the future ahead with something more heartfelt than a generic congratulations.
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Speech occasion
Anniversary speeches
Toast a couple with stories that feel affectionate, specific and worthy of the room they are in.
View speech guideCalm, guided, one step at a time
You bring the memories. We do the shaping.
You do not need to know how to write a speech. You only need to recognise the stories when we ask the right questions.
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Tell us what you know
A focused interview draws out the stories, qualities and boundaries that make the speech personal.
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See the structure free
We organise your material into a speech plan and fully write one sample moment so you can judge the voice.
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Unlock and refine
Choose the full speech only when the plan feels right. Then request changes in ordinary English.
See the forge at work
One rough memory. Three useful outputs.
The detail stays yours. SpeechAnvil adds structure, rhythm and a way to deliver it confidently.
Real-world moment
A speech is not just text on a screen — it is a room, a person, a microphone and a moment you need to get right.
The written moment
SpeechSo we're in Prague. Chris wanders off to find a cashpoint. Simple job. Two minutes. Two hours later we finally track him down — and he's giving directions to tourists in a city he had never visited before that morning.
And when we reached him, he genuinely thought we were the ones who got lost.
How to say it
Coaching“Simple job. Two minutes.”
Pause after “two minutes”. Let the audience picture the contrast before you reveal “two hours later”.
Why it feels personal
The technology stays backstage.
The finished speech should feel like your best version of the story, not a machine's idea of a formal occasion.
Your words survive
We keep the turns of phrase and details that sound like you. The result is polished, not scrubbed of personality.
Nothing awkward slips through
Set the boundaries once. Off-limits stories, family sensitivities and pronunciations stay respected in every draft.
Built for the actual occasion
Wedding warmth, retirement history, birthday mischief or graduation pride — the interview changes with the moment.
Help beyond the words
Best Speech adds delivery notes to your exact lines: pacing, pauses, emphasis and where to let the room react.
Only on SpeechAnvil
Every other site stops at the words. We get you ready to stand up.
Speeches rarely fail on the page. They fail in the delivery — rushed, lost halfway through, or said out loud for the very first time in front of everyone.
So every speech comes with the Rehearsal Studio: a teleprompter, a timer and a recorder, built right into the page. Practise properly, and walk up there having already done it three times.
A real teleprompter
Large, scrolling text at a speed you set, so you practise looking up at the room instead of down at a shaking piece of paper.
Know your timing
See exactly how long your speech runs, and how much your pauses add. No more guessing whether you're at three minutes or seven.
Hear yourself back
Record a run-through and play it back. Everyone speeds up when they're nervous — this is how you catch it beforehand.
Delivery cues in the script
On Best Speech, your script is marked up with where to pause, where to breathe, and where to wait for the laugh.
Included with every paid speech — nothing extra to buy.
Included with Best Speech
You don't have to remember everything on your own.
The hardest part of writing a speech usually isn't the writing. It's sitting there certain that there must be a better story than the three you keep circling.
So send a private link to a few people who know them well. They each write down a memory, you decide which ones are worth using, and we work your favourites into the speech — properly credited, so you're never claiming a story that isn't yours.
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Send the link
Text or WhatsApp it to a handful of people. No accounts, no sign-ups, nothing for them to install.
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They send a memory
Two minutes each. We prompt them for something specific rather than a list of nice adjectives.
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You choose
Nothing reaches your speech unless you approve it. Anything unkind or unusable, you simply discard.
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We work them in
One click rewrites your speech with the stories you kept, attributed so the room knows who remembered what.
Part of Best Speech (£24.99), alongside unlimited revisions and delivery coaching.
Decide after you see the goods
Start free. Pay only for the finished speech.
Complete the interview and read your personalised plan first. No account, no card details and no obligation.
Full personalised plan included free
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Standard
£14.99one-off
Everything you need for a polished, ready-to-deliver speech.
- Your complete speech
- One revision included
- PDF, Word and cue-card downloads
- Rehearsal Studio — teleprompter, timer and voice recording
- Email delivery
Best Speech
£24.99one-off
Extra reassurance when the speech matters and the nerves are real.
- Everything in Standard
- Unlimited revisions
- Delivery coaching on your exact lines
- Delivery cues built into the Rehearsal Studio teleprompter
- Collect stories from their friends and family
- Last-minute changes welcome
Private by design
Your stories are encrypted and automatically deleted 90 days after purchase.
No account or marketing trail
Use the service, receive your speech and leave. We do not build a profile around you.
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Give us ten calm minutes and we'll turn them into a speech plan you can read before paying a penny.
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