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Don't stress about it, it's not often in life that you get to stand up in front of a receptive audience and (gently) take the piss out of one of your best friends.
I did it for a friend of mine, I didn't write a speech but made sure I jotted down some notes and had that with me as an aide memoire. It pays to be flexible too, two of the biggest laughs I got came from events on the day, the first from breakfast and the second from the bride's father's speech where he eulogised about her academic achivements, which allowed me to open with a gag about the groom's lack of academic achievements.
Keep it brief too, anything more than 10 minutes is too long.