MOH Introduction HELP!

Re: MOH Introduction HELP!

• MairePoppy mod

  

  July 2012 edited July 2012

  The best speeches/toasts are short but sweet. This is the part that I really like:
  
  To Gretchen and Groom'sName(?)
  
  'May your love be like the wind, strong enough to move the clouds, soft enough to never hurt, but be never ending- Here’s to love, laughter and happily ever after.
  
  Will everyone please join me in raising your glasses. Cheers!'
  
  If you want, write the fairy tale out for the bride and give it to her as your special gift to her.
  

                     

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• Summer2011Bride member

  

  July 2012

  I feel like, reading the responses, OP deleted some stuff from her OP.
  
  So i don't know what you were planning, but I will agree with the others to keep it short and sweet. Most weddings I've attended, it is very common for the toasts/speeches to last 2-3 min. I think that is fine, but I would not go any longer. I have personally sat through a 20 min speech/best man acting out a scene from a play and it was super painful and boring!

  
  
  
  
  

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• MairePoppy mod

  

  July 2012 edited July 2012

  I'm sorry if my response embarrassed the OP. She wrote a fairy tale for her friend, the bride, and wanted to read it at the wedding along with a few other comments. Her husband was suggesting a longer introduction.
  
  I attended a wedding that had 20 attendants (no exaggeration). Most of them, as well as a family member from each side, gave speeches or toasts BEFORE dinner, loaded with inside jokes and advice. It was excruciating to sit there, so I slipped out to the ladies room. Several of the guests were in there chatting, others were in the courtyard smoking area, still others were lined up at the bar. After touring the facilities, I returned to my table in time to hear the last couple of speakers. The stories would have been better suited to a bp or rd, with a more intimate crowd.

                     

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• Maggie0829 member

  

  July 2012

  Keep your toast short and simple.  If you start to use too many inside jokes or make the toast 30+ minutes long the guests will get bored and tone you out.
  
  Like PP said, feel free to write out this fairy tale and give it to the bride as a special gift.
  
  As an example, and this wasn't done during the reception but rather the actual ceremony, my SIL had a friend do a "reading" during her ceremony.  Her friend had written a story about SIL and BIL about how they were like certain types of dinosaurs (one was a t-rex but I can't remember the other one).  This story went on for 10 minutes.  It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard and this wasn't a fun and whimsical wedding ceremony, this was a church service!  Needless to say, every single one of her guests were giving each other the "what the heck was that?" look.

  
  

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• willywally5 member

  

  July 2012

  THIRTY minutes? I'd totally have to go to the bathroom if there were a thirty-minute toast. I have never seen one more than about 3:30 and that was from a very eloquent, skilled speaker who was the FOB. I'd say a minute or two is PLENTY long. 

  

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