I Tested 7 AI Wedding Speech Generators So You Don't Have To
From free tools to $30 apps, I put every major AI wedding speech generator through the same test. Here's what I found, and which one actually sounds like a real person wrote it.
Related: AI Wedding Speech Writer : how SpokenVow compares to every other option.
Marcus had six weeks until his best friend Jake's wedding. He was the best man. He sat down one Tuesday night, opened ChatGPT, typed in everything he knew about Jake, and waited.
The speech it returned mentioned "cherished memories" three times. It called Sam "a wonderful partner." It said Jake had "a heart of gold." There was nothing in it that Jake would recognize as his own life.
So Marcus started searching. He found seven AI wedding speech generators. He tried all of them. I followed the same path, using the same fictional scenario fed identically into each tool:
"I'm the best man for my friend Jake, who I've known for 12 years. We met in college. He's a software engineer. His partner Sam is a teacher. They got together after a camping trip where Jake got completely lost and Sam had to navigate them back to camp."
Here's what happened.
1. ChatGPT (Free)
ChatGPT is not a dedicated speech tool, but it's where almost everyone starts. The output arrived instantly. It was grammatically flawless and emotionally inert.
Phrases like "on this joyous occasion" and "I wish you a lifetime of happiness" appeared without irony. The camping story showed up in one sentence: "I remember the camping trip where your love story began." That's it. No detail, no voice, no sense that a specific human being named Jake exists.
What ChatGPT produces is a speech-shaped object. It has the right number of paragraphs. It flows. It means nothing.
Verdict: Useful as a structural skeleton if you already know what you want to say. Not useful as a speech.
2. ToastWiz ($29.99 one-time)
ToastWiz takes a form-fill approach. You enter names, your relationship, a few adjectives to describe the groom, and some optional free-text fields. The interface is clean and the process takes about four minutes.
The output was noticeably better structured than ChatGPT. It had a real opening, a middle section, and a toast at the end. The camping story appeared in the second paragraph.
The problem was the seam. You could feel exactly where the tool had inserted the scenario detail into a pre-written template. "From your legendary camping trip to the moment you knew Sam was the one, Jake, you've always found your way." It's the correct information bolted onto the wrong sentence.
No tool asks what Jake actually did when he realized he was lost. That reaction is where the story lives.
Verdict: Better than free tools. Still clearly templated. The personalisation is surface-level.
3. Verble ($19.99/month)
Verble runs on a subscription model, which is an odd fit for a one-time-use product like a wedding speech. The interface is the most polished of anything I tested. It feels like a proper SaaS product.
It also uses a form-fill approach, though with more fields than ToastWiz. You can enter up to three "memories or stories," which is where I put the camping scenario.
The output was the most grammatically precise of the entire test. It was also the least personal. Reading it felt like reading a well-edited press release about someone you've never met. Every sentence was correct. None of it had weight.
Verble seems optimised for writing quality rather than emotional truth. Those are not the same thing.
Verdict: Polished prose, zero soul. The subscription price is hard to justify for a single speech.
4. ToastieAI (Free tier)
ToastieAI is fast. You enter a prompt and get a speech in under ten seconds. The free tier limits output length, which turned out to be accurate advertising: the speech I received was 200 words.
The camping trip became "a memorable adventure together." Sam was described as "the perfect match." Jake was "kind and dependable." Every sentence was in the genre of speech-writing without being a speech.
The free tier exists to push you toward a paid upgrade. I can't tell you whether the paid output is better because I didn't test it. What I can say is that the free version gave me no reason to find out.
Verdict: Fine if you need a placeholder. Not fine if you need a speech someone will remember.
5. CelebrateAlly (Free)
CelebrateAlly is a general-purpose celebration speech generator, not specific to weddings. You can use it for birthdays, retirements, and graduations. This breadth shows in the output.
The speech I received read like a long birthday card. It was warm in the way that store-bought greeting cards are warm: designed to apply to as many people as possible, which means it applies fully to no one.
The camping story appeared as "the adventures you've shared together." Jake and Sam were "a perfect example of what love looks like." There was nothing to hold onto.
Verdict: Wrong tool for the job. Built for breadth, not depth.
6. Claude or Gemini (Direct, Free)
This is the honest wildcard. When you prompt Claude or Gemini with skill, they produce genuinely good output. Better than any dedicated tool I tested, in fact.
The catch is that most people don't know how to prompt well. They do what Marcus did: paste in the facts and wait. Without specific instruction to ask follow-up questions, to push for specificity, to build toward an emotional turn, the output defaults to the same generic register as ChatGPT.
If you're a good writer who can prompt effectively, these tools are free and surprisingly capable. If you're not, which is most people, you'll get the same "cherished memories" speech as everyone else.
Verdict: Powerful in the right hands. Most people don't have the right hands.
7. SpokenVow (Per speech)
SpokenVow works differently. Instead of a form, it conducts an interview.
After I entered the scenario, it didn't produce a speech. It asked a question: how long were they lost? I said about three hours. It asked what Jake did when he realized he had no idea where they were. I said he kept pretending to check the map with complete false confidence. It asked what that moment said about who Jake is as a person.
By the time the interview was done, I had said things about Jake that I hadn't consciously framed as significant before. The tool had done what a good speechwriter does: it had listened.
The speech it produced used Jake's name eleven times. The camping trip was not a one-sentence reference but the spine of the whole speech, the moment it returned to when it needed to say something true. There was a specific detail about Jake's reaction to being lost, the false confidence, that became the joke in the first half and the metaphor in the second.
It read like something a person had actually thought about, because in a sense, one had.
Verdict: The only tool in this test that starts with questions instead of output.
The Numbers
| Tool | Price | Asks Follow-Up Questions? | Felt Personal? | Would Use? | |------|-------|--------------------------|----------------|------------| | ChatGPT | Free | No | No | As a skeleton only | | ToastWiz | $29.99 | No | Partially | Maybe | | Verble | $19.99/month | No | No | No | | ToastieAI | Free | No | No | No | | CelebrateAlly | Free | No | No | No | | Claude / Gemini | Free | No | Only if you prompt well | If you know how | | SpokenVow | Per speech | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The one thing that separates them
Every other tool I tested starts with output. You give it facts, it gives you a speech. The interview never happens.
SpokenVow starts with questions. The interview isn't a feature bolted onto the product. It is the product. The speech that comes out the other end is only as good as what goes in, and what goes in is shaped by the questions asked.
A form captures what you already know how to say. A conversation draws out what you didn't know you needed to say.
Jake's false confidence with the map is a good joke. It's also a true thing about who he is. Marcus would not have thought to frame it that way without being asked. That framing is worth more than any number of well-structured paragraphs.
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