Toasting

A woman attended an amazing wedding, except for one thing: the wedding toasts were terrible. Writing on a Reddit wedding thread, she described the first thing that went wrong: “The groom forgot to tell his father that the father will be speaking at the reception until last minute so the…

Question: do wedding guests like speeches or dancing the most? It all depends on balance. No one likes endless wedding toasts when they could be dancing up a storm to some great wedding entertainment (provided by us!). We’re reacting to a piece at BuzzFeed on tacky weddings people had attended.…

Everyone loves movies about weddings. That’s why Hollywood, the Brits, and the French keep cranking them out. In particular, the rom-com wedding toast has become something of an art form unto itself. There are some really good ones. Two movies made seventeen years apart provide contrasting views on how to…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DMT4iavy7ig Some people are scared-to-death to give a wedding toast. But some people are the exact opposite. Give them a mic and they don’t know when to stop. They become 'mic hogs!'  Thus the need for wedding speech moderation. The bride above talks about mistakes she made at her wedding.…

This blog has explored at length techniques for giving a memorable wedding toast with flair. You’ve read on these pages to keep it concise, just a few minutes in length. You’ve read that if you make ‘em laugh and cry, you’ve done your job. But we haven’t really provided you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2a-S3rjDBw One of the greatest speeches in American history, the Gettysburg Address (re-enacted in the video above), took but two minutes to deliver. And yet a recent bride writing to an advice columnist mentioned that her future in-laws gave a 20 minute wedding ‘speech,’ a real no-no. Even Martin Luther…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvQ2_bPIiY Discussions on how to give a wedding toast typically focus on younger couples in their twenties or early thirties. Young love is especially passionate, often reflected in the toasts themselves. But what about a wedding toast for an older couple? Is there anything different about them? To be clear,…

Most wedding toasts are fairly easy, because you’re toasting someone you like. What happens if you’re put in the position of leading a toast for someone you don’t like? It happens. A dad wrote in to advice columnist, Carolyn Hax, presenting his dilemma: “My son is getting married, and I’m…