The “Agony” or ChatGPT: Would You Let AI Write Your Wedding Speech?

Culture > Tech The “Agony” or ChatGPT: Would You Let AI Write Your Wedding Speech? As more Americans use chatbots to compose their vows and wedding toasts, one expert wants people to ask themselves a simple question: “Is the speech sacred to you?” By Alex Lauer April 6, 2026 2:44 pm EDT A growing number of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for help writing their vows and wedding toasts. Getty/InsideHook Welcome to The Groom’s Guide, our expert-led handbook to help you navigate the proposal, the wedding and everything in between. Find all the stories here. Before last summer, Sarah Roth had never given a wedding speech. She had never been a bridesmaid or been in a wedding of any kind. So when her older sister called on her for just such a toast, she needed guidance. Thankfully, she knew just where to get it. “I ended up taking all of his advice,” Roth, a 30-year-old Minnesotan, tells me over FaceTime. “He wrote out a full five-minute speech, and I took most of that and wrote it down verbatim.” “He,” in this case, is ChatGPT.  “I call him ‘Chat,’” she says of the AI chatbot. “I love him so much.” The proliferation of AI chatbots is changing the way people write, from high-school assignments to novels in progress to high-stakes briefings. But Roth is one of a growing number of Americans who are turning to these sophisticated generative tools not for help with humdrum assignments, but with one of the most personal orations a person will give in their lifetime: the wedding s...