Guidelines To Help With Wedding Toast Activities

Posted by Relationship Expert on November 7, 2009

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If you don’t have a wedding planner and make a decision to plan your own wedding, there are many details to deliberate about. Toast giving is one of the most important decisions and should be well thought out. Giving a toast is a task that puts panic in the speaking hearts of most members of a wedding party. While it is not usually something that is for the most part time-consuming or complex, it’s public speaking (which doesn’t sit well with lots of individuals) and actually puts people on the spot.

If you are planning your own wedding and determine that nearly all members of this wedding party are hams who won’t mind the whole “public speaking” idea, then by all means keep the toasts customary with dad, the best man and others taking their anticipated turns at the microphone.

But if you’re looking for something diverse, either because you want to prevent putting people on the spot, or you merely would like to do something atypical and fun, read on.

To start with, you can certainly take the whole toast occurrence off the plan if you wish. There are no rules requiring a toast at any wedding. Weddings should be unique events and replicate the personalities of the bride and groom.

But if you desire to do something a little out of the ordinary, there are options. You can go the video route, which asks people to essentially make a toast on camera and then the video is given to the bride and groom later on. This is not a particularly unique plan, but it does solve the matter of not wanting to place individuals on the spot and still provides everyone a chance to say something special to the bride and groom.

If your guest list includes many sociable individuals then think about “pass the microphone”. This way of giving toasts does put individuals on the spot, but it can also be a lot of fun. Getting people when they least expect it and then asking them to dredge up something funny or meaningful concerning the bride and groom can result in fascinating, humorous and truthful results.

You might additionally come to a decision that one individual at each table be required to offer a toast. Number the tables and at various intervals, have the MC or DJ call a number, which will oblige guests at that table to work out among themselves who will give the toast at that table. Of course, more than one person can if they like, but there will probably be at least one ham at every table who will enjoy standing up and toasting the newlyweds.

Say you have plenty of public speakers in the party, and finding willing toast participants won’t be a dilemma. But you think the subject matter might be. There is an easy resolution to this problem. You can provide open-ended topics for the toast speakers. Say you are providing an “open mike” toast arrangement, where anybody might request the microphone and propose a toast. The DJ, MC or somebody else in the wedding party (perhaps the maid of honor or best man) can suggest the speaker a surprise topic, which might be pulled from a champagne flute or drawn out of the floral arrangement on the head table. There can be slips of paper to choose, or only one sheet of paper with several ideas.

The speaker might choose to complete this sentence, “I remember when (groom’s name here) was a young boy, he invariably …” or answer this question, “At what time was (insert bride’s name here) at her silliest? Tell us the story”. You might have to allot every speaker a minute or two to gather their thoughts, but you are certain to come up with a few exciting stories, some unique anecdotes and several diverse perspectives on the bride and groom.

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