Excellent Wedding Speeches and Wedding Toasts Straight From the Heart

It is generally accepted that at least once in a man's life, he ought to become a best man or a groom who will be asked to deliver a memorable and moving wedding speech or wedding toast because a wedding ideally should only happen once in a lifetime! If you are already nervous and shivering at the thought, don't be because here are several simple tips to make and deliver wedding speeches or wedding toasts from your heart.

First Step: Get to Know Your Audience

Your wedding speech or wedding toast must reflect the general atmosphere of the wedding, which can range from the casual to the formal as well as from the orthodox to the unorthodox. You also need to find out who and how many will be attending the wedding reception so that you can tailor your speech or toast to this information, such as greeting people of high standing in society, excluding deceased family members (if any), etc.

As an example, delivering to a small audience's attention can be held with relatively simple words and delivery while a larger audience may need more humor, more drama and more emotions to even earn their interest, let alone maintain it. However, as a general rule of thumb, regardless of who the audience will be, you need to keep off sensitive subjects like race, religion and sex since you don't want to offend anybody's sensibilities.

Second Step: Always Put Pen to Paper

Once you have your ideas about the things in your wedding speech or wedding toast that your audience will appreciate and that you will want to also hear yourself say, you have to prepare a draft of your speech. To make it memorable even in its rough form, keep these tips in mind:

• Start your wedding speech or wedding toast with a grand opening albeit in simple words. This way, you can build up the audience's anticipation of your speech. You may start by greeting the guests in general and introducing yourself by name, which can be quickly followed by a one-liner joke that will arouse their interest.

• Tell an anecdote between two friends (best man and groom) or two lovers (bride and groom) that others may not know, which can either be funny or poignant but which should reflect the friendship/love between the two individuals in your wedding speech.

• Provide a memorable closing to your wedding speech or wedding toast. This must take the form of congratulations/well wishes/thanks and followed by a wedding toast. As much as possible, you have to follow the thread of your speech.

Most important, keep it brief but reflective of your feelings. Your purpose is always to say something good about the union and about the couple - no negative feelings, no melodramatic confessions, no embarrassing exposés and no long-winded whines, please. Just your personal heartfelt feelings will do.

Third Step: Constant Practice and Obtain Valuable Feedback

The value of practicing your wedding speech or wedding toast until you have committed it to heart cannot be overemphasized. On the other hand, getting feedback from your family and friends will also help in your editing such that your short speech becomes even shorter. Some tips in this regard:

• Use active voice instead of passive voice.

• Make your sentences short but combined with longer sentences for variety.

• Avoid euphemisms and jargon since you want your audience to understand your words once they hear it.

When you have perfected your wedding speech or wedding toast, it is often a simple matter of repeating the first lines again and again before your name is called to stand up and speak. Once you have said the first lines, the next passages will naturally come to you.

And don't forget to deliver your wedding speech or wedding toast with your heart because no matter how well-written a speech is when it is not spoken from your heart, it will fall flat.

 

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