Bridegroom Wedding Speech and Toast Tips - Dos and Don'ts

As a bridegroom, you may feel some nervousness in giving a groom wedding speech or wedding toast. Just keep in mind that you should be delighted to be in that position and this is your opportunity to tell your friends and family how happy and lucky you are to be marrying your delightful bride. However, when you come to think of it, giving a groom speech is just an exercise in public speaking albeit your audience is people whom you are familiar with even on an acquaintance basis, which may make it easier.

But if you are still unsure about the proper etiquette, here are some dos and don'ts in giving a groom wedding speech or wedding toast.

Do Prepare

Your speech needs to follow a general outline so that you will not make a fool of yourself and a bigger fool of your bride. However, try to be spontaneous with a few well-inserted clean jokes and anecdotes. And of course, being prepared means practicing your speech until you have nailed it down. Practice makes perfect!

Do Extend Your Congratulations and Thanks

Of course, you need not mention every Tom, Dick and Harry in the room. Just extend your thanks to your in-laws for accepting you, your parents, friends and family who have turned up and even your best man and lastly, compliment the bridesmaids.

Do Be Short, Sweet and Simple

Your groom wedding speech or wedding toast is a confirmation of the love and joy you feel for your wife and how lucky you are. As such, keep it short (about 5 minutes will do), sweet (say nice words only, please) and simple (stick to basic English).

Do Smile and Stand Up

Often, it is not the words that matter but the delivery of the words. Thus, you have to stand up, smile at your guests, and let your bride beaming with pride when she hears your beautiful toast to her as well as your carefully chosen and spoken words.

Don't be Drunk

Don't embarrass yourself and your hosts by delivering a slurred speech filled with the words of a drunken man. Not only are you being rude to your bride and family, you are also bringing upon your head the most undesirable form of notoriety. Thus, refrain from drinking excessive alcohol before your talk so that you can still remember your prepared groom wedding speech or wedding toast when the time comes to deliver it.

Don't Lash Out

Even when you have ambivalent feelings about some parts of your new family, keep your mouth shut about them. In the first place, this is neither the time nor place to voice discontentment. In the second place, it's your day to be happy and you should look past this be it only for today.

Most important in giving your groom speech or toast, you have to relax and just have fun. After all, it's a wedding - one of the most joyous of occasions in your life - that requires your presence as delightful bridegroom, nothing more, nothing less.

 

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