Here are your final tips from Martha Stewart Weddings on on giving a tip, top, toast!
Do your homework
The best toasts that seem natural and unrehearsed, take preparation!
Star with an outline
- Create categories of topics you want to cover
- Spend some time really thinking about your relationship
- Consult a collection of quotes or poems
...have a draft completed a few weeks before the wedding to ensure you have time to do some dry runs.
Keep it short
- no more than a few minutes
- time yourself
- rewrite parts you find yourself stumbling over
- record yourself, or rehearse before an impartial party - ask for feedback!
- get a sense of where natural breaks occur - write "Pause" as a reminder
- avoid the impulse to write everything down
- Even if you memorize your speech... you should still have something in front of you to fall back on
- print a duplicate of your notes and give it to another guest in case you misplace your own!
Now you have all the tools to compose and deliver the perfect toast!
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