How to Easily Personalize Your Wedding Speech or Wedding Toast

Weddings are personalized events since no two weddings have the same couple with the same vows, the same theme and venue, the same guests and entourage, the same everything! Thus, it goes to reason that your wedding speech or wedding toast as best man, or as part of the wedding entourage for that matter, should be personalized.

Pick a Sample Speech or Toast

However, not everybody is blessed with the talent for words ala Cicero and Churchill. You will be excused when you secure a sample best man speech or toast over the Internet to make up for your lack of glib. What you will not be excused from, however, is when you quote a generic sample hook, line and sinker.

Not only will you be shortchanging the bride and groom but you will also be fooling yourself into thinking that your wedding speech or wedding toast reflects your sincerest thoughts about the wedding. And that completely defeats the purpose of your speech!

Personalize the Speech or Toast

Fortunately, there are many ways with which a sample wedding speech can be personalized. You can adapt these ways to do so:

• Be a tattletale albeit in a good way by telling an anecdote about the couple. It can be about them as a couple or as individuals, or about the experiences the three of you have shared, or even about what their family and friends find appealing about the union. You will be injecting a sense of familiarity with the couple without intruding into their private space.

• Choose a piece of literature - poems, religious quotes, wild witticisms, literary passages and even song lyrics - that holds special meaning to the couple. If you are familiar with their love story, you ought to be able to come up with something.

• Ask for the personalized wedding vows beforehand, which ought to be easy when you lent a helping hand to the groom during the process. You can then refer to their vows during your best man wedding speech or wedding toast. Just don't mention that you helped in shaping it as the groom will appreciate your silence on the matter.

• Adapt the sample wedding jokes to the couple's specific situation. Although weddings are universal, the funny experiences along the way to the altar are varied among grooms and brides so it is important to look back on those times with the wedding jokes as your guide.

• Punctuate your wedding speech or wedding toast with appropriate music. For example, you can ask the disc jockey for the couple's favorite instrumental song while you deliver your speech. This way, the bride and groom can listen to your words and savor their music.

• If you can, you might even put up a video display or a picture gallery that will complement your best man speech. Just make sure that it will be short, simple and sweet since you don't want to bore the guests and steal the couple's thunder.

Often, personalizing your wedding speech or wedding toast is a matter of becoming familiar with the likes and dislikes of the couple. This ought to be easy when you are friends with the groom. (After all, you were picked as best man because you are the groom's best buddy/brother/cousin)

And when you are asked to speak, relax and just have fun. Your friends, the bride and groom, will know that what you are saying comes from your heart regardless of whether you had a sample speech downloaded online.

 

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