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Blessings & Wedding Toasts

A blessing of the marriage is traditionally given by your officiant, the toasts can follow the prayer


by Joyce Barslow
A blessing of the marriage is traditionally given by your officiant after the guests are seated and the meal is served. A member of your family or an appointed guest may also say a prayer.

The toasts can follow the prayer, or you can wait until after the wine or champagne is served. Some couples prefer that the toast take place after dessert and before they cut their wedding cake. If you are going to do it this way, create a one-page order of events that can be placed on the tables (usually on the serving dish at each guest's place.)

Wedding Toasts   
The Best Man is usually the person who has the honor of delivering the first toast to the Bride and Groom. Toasts (which do not need to be alcoholic) can be traditional or contemporary, ethnic or classical, special or funny, serious or spiritual, but never - dull or sad.

The traditional toast goes something like this:
Ladies and gentlemen, please stand with me as we join in the traditional toast to the bride: health, happiness and all the best life has to offer. To (Bride's name).

The traditional toast to the Bride and Groom:
Ladies and gentlemen, please stand with me as we raise our glasses in toast to the bride and groom (Bride's name) and (Groom's name); we wish you a lifetime of health and happiness.

These toasts are generally followed by more toasts from the different speakers in the wedding party - the father of the Bride and Groom, friends and family.

Who says What!
Toasts are made to: Toast made by
• The Bride Best Man, Dad, Groom, Maid of Honor
• The Groom Bride
• The Bride & Groom
Any one
• The wedding party
Any one
• The Bride's parents Groom, Father of the Groom
• The Groom's parents Bride, Groom, in-laws, guests
• The special guests Bride, Groom, parents.
  
Toasting
The person making the toast stands. If you are the one being toasted, you do not raise your glass or drink from it during the toast itself. If you wish, you may take a drink after everyone else has done so. If the toast was quite funny, you may need it.

Toasts can go on forever; they shouldn't. Twenty minutes should be plenty for all of them.
• The Best Man usually offers the first toast to the Bride.
• The father of the Bride, as host, offers the second toast. (He may also deliver his toast on behalf of himself and his wife; and to the members of the wedding party, the guests and his daughter's new in-laws.)
• The father of the Groom offers the third toast. (He too may toast the couple, the wedding party,  the guests and his son's new in-laws).
• The Groom toasts his Bride and the parents. He may also toast his grandparents, the guests and the wedding party - but quietly.
• The Bride offers the next toasts to her parents, grandparents, new in-laws, wedding party, and her new husband (but only if he has toasted her first).
• The Best Man can propose a thank-you toast to the wedding party on behalf of the Bride and Groom (unless the Groom proposes this toast himself).
• Family and friends follow, usually jumping up as inspiration strikes.

Delivering your toast
Do
• Take your time and practice your toast before the wedding.
• Rehearse the toast until you have memorized it. You may use recipe cards for your hand-held notes.
• Tell light jokes only if you are good at them.
• Stand to make your toast. If the guests are talking, the Master of Ceremonies or the DJ or orchestra leader should quieten them by some device, musical or otherwise, which indicate that another toast is to be given.
• Test the microphone before you speak. If there isn't one, talk slowly and loudly.
• Look at the person you are toasting and raise your glass.

Don't
• Bring up embarrassing school memories.
• Mention first time marriages if either of the couple has been married before.
• Tell ethnic or religious jokes, off-color jokes or use offensive language.
• Discuss anything that is depressing. This is a time for joy.
• Bang your glass with a utensil to get the guests' attention.
• Go over three minutes.

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