As I said earlier, I have had the honor of being the best man in several weddings. The first time I was asked to be the best man, I was extremely honored and excited to take on the responsibilities. Out of all of the responsibilities I had, I over look one of the most crucial ones…The Best Man Toast at the reception!
I did not prepare for the toast as I should have and on the day of the wedding it hit me…I do not have a decent toast ready for my best friend and his new bride! Then the anxiety set in, and it got worse ans worse throughout the day until the time came.
When it was time for me to stand up in front of all of the wedding guests and give a great toast I was a nervous wreck. The DJ handed me the microphone and wished me luck, I stood up and my face turned beet red. I cleared my throat and I went blank…I stood there with a blank look on my face and could not think of anything to say. About 30 seconds went by and then I started to stutter out something about the groom being my best friend and his new beautiful bride. The toast was about 7 seconds long and was a complete disaster.
I have never been so embarrassed in my entire life. It bothered me for months as I knew I was the bad part of the entire wedding. I am sure the bride and groom were disappointed as well as all of their guests. To this day, some of my friends do not let it down…They still give me a hard time about it.
When I had started to get over the whole ordeal, I had another friend approach me to the best man in his upcoming wedding. This brought all of the anxiety back from my first attempt as best man but I hesitantly said “Yes”.
The wedding came quickly and all I could think about is the best man toast I muffed the first time around. I vowed not to let that happen again…I started looking at books about speech writing and even looked at hiring a professional writer to help me. The books confused me and ended up being too much work and the toast ended up being a piece of junk, the professional I spoke with would have been a great help if she didn’t charge over $400 to help me.
I started to get bummed out…Then one day when I was surfing around on the Internet I found this site dedicated to wedding speeches. When I read through what they had to offer, the had some really attractive benefits listed. So I ended up buying what they had to offer, and boy am I glad I did!
When I downloaded the package, they had given me 20 professionally written speeches. They were all written in a way where they sounded sincere and personal. So I picked parts from some of the speeches and created my own unique toast. It sounded perfect when I read over it and the anxiety started to calm.
Then I memorized it and practiced until the speech became second nature to me. I was now ready to give the greatest best man toast ever.
When the day came I had very little anxiety, I knew exactly what I was going to say and it felt good to be prepared. Now it was my time to get up and give the best man toast, I stood there and gave my toast which lasted a little less than 6 minutes. I killed it!!! I received a huge applause and the Bride stood up and gave me a big hug, my friend the Groom was equally pleased.
After the wedding I received compliments from pretty much everybody, even months after the wedding. The feeling was great, I just wish I had done this the first time around.
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