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Writing a Wedding Toast...help!
I need help writing a toast for my sister's wedding reception!! I have no idea how to write one...I've never even been to a wedding before...
the reception is in a couple of months, but still I need a head start on this...
how long should a toast be?
Any do's and don'ts? Have any of you done a toast before? How did it turn out??
the reception is in a couple of months, but still I need a head start on this...
how long should a toast be?
Any do's and don'ts? Have any of you done a toast before? How did it turn out??
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Have you watched Wedding Crashers? lol it's a pretty good movie. Anyway there is a part in there where the sister of the bride had to make a toast... if you haven't watched it Owen Wilson gives some pretty good tips. Basically, don't try to be funny if you're not and just be sincere. I'm sure you are genuinely happy for your sister and have something to say about that.
no help from me :x
^and ya, wedding crashers, good choice :D
1.) Her unstable body weight
2.) The fact that her mom (my aunt) is divorced
3.) Me being forced to attend her wedding
4.) The horror that I could be next
5.) A plead to not make me an uncle
Look, her mom (my aunt) will probably get dirt drunk anyway. What I want to do is no better. Here is something I just thought of...
Hi, I am (my name), I am (Name of my Cousin)'s cousin. First, to the groom (Name of my Cousin's Fiancé), welcome to the family! By purposing to my cousin, you have just fulfilled one of our family's tradition: Interrupting our lives because of your wedding. You have no idea how badly I want to get the next plane and get back to Richmond.
To (Name of my Cousin), I congratulate you for finding love. Your ability to get married is a total surprise to me because of your divorced parents and your unstable body weight. Your marriage pretty much destoryed my theory that children of divorced couples will have a harder time finding love. I hope that your marriage will work out better than your mom's.
After you, the next wedding will probably be either my cousin (my next eldest cousin's name) or, god forbid, mine. Oh yeah, I don't want to become an uncle until after I finish my BA, so...
Thankyou.
My whole family will excommunicate me if they read this, so don't spread this around please.
ur sis is gettin marrried, u shud hav a blast
and sum of u guys havnt been to a wedding? sumwhere in ur 18+ years of life hasnt neone in ur family gotten married?
but ya us brown ppl have huge families so there like a couple of weddings every year lol. When I say family i mean every relative (distant or close) cuz brown ppl usually have tight-knit relations. just custom i guess
anyway, yeah i'm pretty sure we're gonna have a blast-i'm really happy for my sister :). after the wedding, we're flying to vegas to celebrate hehehe...but i'm just having the jitters about making a toast. it's sure to come off corny, but i think it's better if I keep it short and sweet.
the only thing i remember from Wedding Crashers is the montage of them crashing weddings, and random topless women falling back on some beds. lol hahah
wow, Student0667 I hope you don't make that toast...that would just...be so awkward lol. i'm assuming you have had a history of rifts with your cousin? or is all this resentment coming from your aunt's marital issues? or is it just because you don't wanna go? come to think of it, i actually have a few cousins in which i would give a similar speech as yours...but good thing it's not likely i'd go to them in the first place...
I remember their good friends giving a toast and telling some random crazy embarrassing stories complete with facial expressions and hand gestures. I remember I was too young to understand some parts of the stories but if I was older I would have been laughing really hard. I also remember a relative giving a really long drawn out speech and how I was getting antsy sitting in my seat... so keeping it short and sweet is really good.
My best advice is already given earlier in this thread... listen to Owen Wilson's tips from the Wedding Crashers. If you have some kind of appropriate story about your cousin (either sweet, funny or both) that's not too complicated to tell, then consider adding it into your toast.
ur the first girl ive heard of that dusnt like C. ronaldo, i mean its common for guys to hate him because of the jealousy factor lol
and i assumed all girls dream of the perfect wedding.. has tv been lying to me all these years?
like i said.. the girl part of me might be hating him for the jealousy factor.. i really can't say.. =P
and perfect weddings are overrated.. hardly ANY weddings are perfect.. just think about wedding crashers (the actual crashers)..
Girls have it harder, cause they're expected to get all emotional and deep, and probably shed a tear or two.
As some of you may know, there was recently a new trend where the bride would throw their garter into the crowd and the man who caught it would get married next. Instead, in my cousin's wedding, she decided to pass the garter around "musical chair style." Guess who ended up getting the garter?