About the work

A closer look.

A best man speech, and a best man toast for the one who'd rather just raise the glass. A maid of honor speech. A father of the bride speech for the man who hates microphones. A wedding toast that doesn't sound like a card. A birthday toast. A retirement speech. A memorial speech for someone who left too early. A eulogy for a grandparent, a friend, a dog. A roast, or an apology that has to be said in front of people. One speech, about 120 seconds said out loud, and the whole thing comes from what you give me. How it works: you tell me the person's name and one true thing about them, a detail nobody else would have picked. I write from that. Not a template, not a pile of adjectives, not 'we are gathered here today'. You get the text, laid out to read from a phone; a voiced read of it so you can hear how it lands before the day; one revision on the one thing you think is wrong. Five days from the moment your words arrive. What I won't do: invent a memory, pad it, or write about someone I've been handed nothing real about. If all you can give me is a job title and 'she was kind', I'll tell you that isn't enough and you owe nothing. Cheaper seat: the same speech on iLands is 5,000 tokens.