Family · the personal occasion
AI for wedding speeches and eulogies
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Using AI to help with a wedding speech, eulogy, vows, or a 50th-birthday toast is increasingly common. Used right, it helps you find the structure when you're stuck and overwhelmed. Used wrong, you end up reading something polished but generic at the most personal moments of your life.
The honest line: AI for the scaffolding, you for the heart. The audience can always tell the difference.
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Where AI genuinely helps
- First-draft structure. A blank page is the hardest part. "Give me a five-section outline for a 6-minute eulogy for my dad" gets you started.
- Anecdote-finding. "Here are some things I remember about my mum: [list]. Help me see which two are strongest for the opening?"
- Polishing prose you've already written — tightening, flow, removing repetition.
- Reading-time estimates. "How long will this take to read aloud at a comfortable pace?"
Where to keep yourself in
- The actual stories. The specific moments only you remember.
- The voice. If your dad was funny in a particular way, the AI doesn't know that — you do.
- The closing line. Whatever the ending, it should be a sentence you can say without flinching. AI tends toward stock phrases here.
- The full reading. Read it aloud the night before and let yourself rewrite anything that doesn't sound like you.