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Posted by Amy Bartlett on October 18, 2009
A wedding toast is an integral part of today’s wedding structure, and there are a lot of people who just can’t face the task of giving a toast in front of a room full of people without having some kind of cue card in front of them or some notes of some kind. For anyone in that predicament, there is the saving grace that you can find any kind of wedding toast free online if you just browse around a little.
The biggest problem for most toast givers at weddings, other than the sheer fright of standing in front of a group of people and having to say something that sounds intelligent without passing out; is that they don’t know what the drill is—-in other words, when the toast should be given and who says what when. The more formal the wedding, the stricter the rules, usually—and the toasting, from the rehearsal dinner to the reception, follow a certain order.
Let’s take a look at the reception where almost all of the toasting will take place. You are armed with your speech, part of which you downloaded from a site in the Internet that offered examples of a free wedding toast; and now we are reviewing the order that most toasting follows for the average wedding. The best man starts the whole thing off by toasting the happy couple; then the groom follows suit and stands up and delivers a toast to his new wife and her family. Now it is the two fathers’ turns; his father and hers, each toasting the couple with good wishes. The next order of business, if desired; is that the couple would raise a toast to each other, and then it would be your turn, or anyone else’s in the audience who wanted or was asked to give a toast.
Now that you have done your online search, found the free wedding toast that suits your needs—-now you need to know a few particulars about giving the toast—–what and what not to say, time constraints, and how to end it effectively. You can include humor, which is usually well received by the guests and family members alike, as long as it applies to the situation and is in good taste—the last thing you want to do at a wedding reception is to be a boor and be crude. Keep the toast within 3-5 min long and stand while speaking keeping eye contact with the couple; include some little anecdotes about them, who you are in relation to them (some people may not know who you are); and end the toast with a blessing, or congratulations, or “Cheers!”.
As has been said before, the sites online that promote the availability of a free wedding toast will also list many of them that can be downloaded easily without signing up for anything, or procuring a membership on the site. Here are a few examples of what is available: To the Bride and Groom: “May the roof above you never fall in, and may you both never fall out.” Another: “May we all be invited to your Golden Wedding celebrations.” And a final example: “May you both live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.”
Here are a few examples of a free wedding toast that could be used for other folks rather than the bride and groom; for example, From the bride and groom: “To our best friends, who know the most about us, but refuse to believe it.” And, again, from the bride and groom: “May our children be blessed with rich parents.” A toast to the Bride alone: “May you share everything with your husband, including the housework.” And to the Groom alone: “To the man who has conquered the bride’s heart, and her mother’s.”
The examples are many and the choices numerous, so the ability to find a free wedding toast online is limited by your perseverance only. It won’t take much of your time to browse up some online sites on the Internet that offer free wedding toasts for the taking, and you will have all the inspiration you need at your fingertips; to write the toast yourself, or use the one you’ve downloaded just as it is—the choice is yours.
Amy Bartlett writes articles and publishes information regarding Wedding Etiquette. For more information on Wedding Humor visit our site.
Posted by Patrick John on September 14, 2009
Are you one of those unfortunates who sweat and stammer and become undone when asked to stand up in front of a crowd and say something? What about at a wedding, when your good friend is getting married and you have been invited to “say a few words” at the reception? Same reaction? Well, here’s good news—-first, it’s not the end of the world; and second, there are lots of free wedding speech samples out there for the taking—–all you have to do is look.
Truly, if you are honest in what you want to say to the wedding couple and their families and friends, and you are telling the truth; then there is no reason to be sick or unsettled about speaking at the reception. You just want to voice your feelings to them and who cares if 400 people are listening to you. But if you are of the burgeoning throng of ” oh my God, I will pass out if I have to get up and speak in front of all those people” folks, then go the tried and true route that all the “scaredy-cats” use and look for free wedding speech samples that someone else has already created.
Get over the fact that you are like everyone else when it comes to speaking in public—-namely that annihilation by a bus is more welcome——and go to the Internet to start your search for something to say to the wedding couple. You’ll be amazed just how much traffic there is to these sites that offer free wedding speech samples and a lot of them are complete little speeches where you can use them as is; or there are some that are outlines designed so you can put in your own words and just use them as a template.
There is another option for those of you who must use a template, or are just too nervous to try to wing it without a little help; you can find sites on the internet that deal with wedding paraphernalia and some of these sites have blogs or places to post helpful tidbits for others, and there you can find free wedding speech samples, or whole speeches—-that have been used by other folks. These are there for the taking and you can use them as they are, or use just parts of them to write your own speech. Lots of folks find these bits and pieces very helpful in putting together a speech.
You will find as you are searching these sites that have free wedding speech samples, that there is just about anything you would need to put together a speech. The offerings range from simple toasts, to longer speeches to family or friends, little asides to grandmothers, jokes and funny stories, and even poetry. Depending on the ambient mood of the wedding you are going to, formal or not; the mood will determine what you want to include in your speech, or how “funny” or “jokesy” you want to be. Some of the offerings can give you a real good head start on your own speech.
Once you find some good free wedding speech samples that you can work with, then start molding them into something that sounds like you wrote it and use your sample as a template. Remember the best wedding speeches are those that do not sound contrived, they sound sincere and from the heart. Keep it simple, keep it clean—never be vulgar—give thanks to those that you feel deserve it, and just go with the flow. Most of all, wish the happy couple well and mean it. You will do just fine.
When you go to give your awaited wedding speech, just go with the flow and remember that you are surrounded by friends and family for the most part, who all know you—–so, just be you, laugh a little, tell a joke or a funny story, don’t let your nerves undo you—-you are not in front of a firing squad. All you are doing is giving your best wishes to the newly married couple in your own words, in your own inimitable way; and so what if there happens to be a couple of hundred people in the room also.
Amy Bartlett has a bevy of information on topics such as Irish Wedding Blessing. For more information on Irish Wedding Toasts visit our site.
