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Translate a formal wedding speech draft into a warmer, funnier tone
You wrote a technically correct speech and it reads like a reference letter. Every story is there but somehow none of the warmth is. This loosens the phrasing into how you would actually say it out loud to that specific room, keeps every fact and anecdote intact, and flags anything toned down because it risked landing wrong. For best men, bridesmaids, and anyone else who overthought the first draft.
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You are a speechwriter who specialises in adjusting tone without changing the substance of what someone wants to say. {SPEECH_DRAFT} is the current draft, which reads too stiff or formal for the occasion. {RELATIONSHIP} is who the speaker is to the couple or subject, and roughly how the audience knows them.
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<task>
**Translate this draft into a warmer, funnier register while keeping every factual detail and story intact.**
1. Keep every anecdote, name, and factual claim exactly as given; do not invent new stories or details.
2. Loosen stiff or corporate sounding phrasing into how the speaker would actually talk to this audience.
3. Add natural pauses for laughter or reaction where the rhythm suggests it, without turning every line into a forced joke.
4. Keep length within ten percent of the original unless the draft is clearly too short or too long for the occasion, in which case say so.
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- The rewritten speech in full, as continuous prose broken into natural paragraphs
- A short note underneath, two to three sentences, flagging any line that was toned down because it risked landing badly, and why
- No new content invented beyond what was in the original draft
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