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Very Quick Wedding Toasts

February 16th, 2009 -- Posted in Books on Speeches | No Comments »

The long awaited wedding day is here. Your best friend, cousin, brother, sister, mother, father, or some favorite relative is getting married. This person is someone very close to you, and you can hardly wait to be a part of the love and joy that is sure to take place today. And to help join in the celebrations you have decided or perhaps have been asked to give a wedding toast.  The perfect solution is for you to give a very quick wedding toast.

And then you realize what you have to do and you start to panic. Just the thought of standing up in front of all those guests is daunting enough to make you feel nauseous.  Already you can feel your knees start to wobble alarmingly, and you have yet to even get to the reception! There’s nothing to worry about really. A wedding toast is most definitely not of the same duration as a wedding speech and it is only necessary to say a few short words.

Actually, since this is wedding toast, a few short words is all you should say, anything longer will make it sound like a speech and that’s the very last thing that you want to do.

A very quick wedding toast should consist of the following:

1. A short story is the best way to start. Stories are powerful and capturee attention of the audience. It is best to have a story about the bride or groom, but if you can’t come up with one about them; just tell one that most attendees will understand and relate to.

2. Use simple language and speak from the heart. Keep it short.

3. Raise your glass. Congratulate the bride and groom and wish them a bright future.

So when do you give a wedding toast? Well, the times vary according to different family traditions, the formality of the occasion and the level of inebriation of the guests.

In other words, if you are not of the official wedding party and you have no idea when to give your wedding toast, you can do one of two things. The first is to try and find out discreetly when the toasts are likely to be given, or wait and bide your time until someone else gives a toast.

One sure sign that toasts are on the way is when the bubbly is popped and all the guests have been served with the champagne. These toasts are generally known as champagne toasts, and the trick to survive the many different toasts given at this point and still remain reasonably sober, is to take only a sip or two of your champagne. Chugging it down like you were at a frat party is probably not the best way to go.

That said, if you want to give a wedding toast there are a few things that you might want to look into before you do so. For instance some weddings are formal and by their very nature preclude too many spontaneously given toasts at varying times. This doesn’t mean that no toasts are given after the first round of toasts, but it does not happen all that often.

So look into the etiquette of giving a wedding toast before you stand up with your champagne glass in hand, and decide when would be the best time to give a wedding toast. You will also want to be at least semi-prepared as to what you’re going to say when you stand up to give the toast, and although this should be short and simple, it should most definitely not come out as blabber! 

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Wedding Marriage Love Quotes

February 15th, 2009 -- Posted in Books on Speeches | No Comments »

A wedding could be a day of happiness for many people, but for some participants it can be nothing short of an unmitigated catastrophe. That is of course until they get over their part of the proceedings and complete the chore of giving a speech. If you’re not used to giving a speech, and haven’t the slightest idea about how to go about writing a  wedding speech, having to give one can become a source of great anxiety. For this very simple reason many people rely on using wedding quotes to get them through the speech.

Using wedding marriage love quotes can be a great blessing to the  inexperienced speech-giver, but you need to make sure that you don’t  make your entire speech, one big mass of wedding quotes. Of course there is software, books, and other aids to help you write and deliver the perfect wedding speech, but how many of us can stand up in front of a gathering of people and manage to sound reasonably coherent?

Our brains seem to short circuit and the carefully planned and prepared speech we had labored over, goes out the window and instead we’re confronted with shaky legs, sweaty palms, a nervous laugh and a sea of faces floating back and forth in our sight as they all wait for coherent sentences to fall from our lips.

This is where wedding marriage love quotes come in handy. If you laced your speech with these, you will probably be able to remember one of two of these at least, and you can use them to good effect even if you forget your entire prepared speech.

Of course, if you feel uneasy about the thought of even having to say one or two words, you can resort to giving a short but heartfelt speech, and wedding quotes come in handy in this case as well. If you try really hard you can even revolve your entire (short) speech around one or two quotes.

On the other hand, wedding quotes don’t need to be the resource of only the speech-giving handicapped; these wonderfully overused and misused quotes can also breathe life into a speech and can also have the effect of sending your audience into gales of laughter or have them sighing over their glasses of champagne.

However, proper usage of any wedding quotes that you use in your speech is entirely necessary, as it can otherwise make your speech sound stilted and mechanical. And the very last thing that you want to do is to give a speech that is void of personalization and relies instead on stale old wedding quotes to get it through.

So use any good wedding quotes that you find but use them only where appropriate and also remember to use them sparingly. Don’t fill your entire speech with wedding quotes!

 

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