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  • Everything is at stake in a wedding toast.

  • What people worry about is that they're going to get up and make a fool of themselves.

  • There are a lot of do's and there's a lot of don'ts.

  • Wedding toasts can go really, really bad.

  • [ MAN SINGING ]

  • It's a lot to get right, and it's a lot to get wrong.

  • But a great toast, that is special, and that's what your guests are not going to forget.

  • [ MUSIC ]

  • There comes a time in everyone's life when they meet their one true love.

  • That moment came for George 25 years ago, when he met me.

  • [ LAUGHING ]

  • [ MUSIC ]

  • Originally, the idea of a toast was two guys, big dudes probably with chalices,

  • clanking their pewter goblets together in the hopes that a little bit of your liquid would go into mine,

  • and my liquid would go into yours, so that I could make sure that

  • you were trying to poison me. And that's a toast.

  • The wedding toast, it's a time honored tradition. It's totally expected that a toast

  • will be given at the wedding reception, and that it be meaningful, and really encompass who the couple is.

  • Cheers!

  • The wedding toast is an art form. It's the ability to connect with a large group

  • of people and to make it seem like I'm talking right to you.

  • You've been elected as a representative of these two people, and if

  • you nail it, they seem more intelligent, they seem better looking, they seem more popular.

  • Sometimes we don't want to see people succeed when they give their toast.

  • "He didn't ask me to give a toast! Who's this jerk that he did ask to give a toast?"

  • For the next forty years, people are going to look back at that speech and be like,

  • you know what, that guy is cool. Or you're going to start off, and be like, you know

  • what, that guy is kind of a loser.

  • Be yourself, the couple choose you, they know exactly the type of person you are.

  • I'm a builder, I like to measure things. You can't measure the power in this room.

  • Just share your heart, and let it flow.

  • To a great night, to two great people.

  • Congratulations, I love you both.

  • I love you both.

  • I love you both.

  • [ CHEERING ]

  • [ MUSIC ]

  • People say start with a joke, which conceptually is right.

  • Growing up, we were polar opposites. He was smart and driven,

  • I was and still am incredibly good looking.

  • [ LAUGHING ]

  • But really what you want to do is start with something that is meaningful and impactful.

  • I hit the jackpot. I picked up a son, and I picked up two grandsons.

  • [ CLAPPING ]

  • Structure it in threes: the beginning, the middle, and the end. Tell something about the past,

  • tell something about the present, and give a hope for the future.

  • May there always be lots of delicious wine for you to drink together.

  • [ LAUGHING ]

  • Part of the perfect toast is telling a story. A story that really connects the

  • entire audience to the couple and is very telling of them. Like, it's so him, it's so her.

  • Make a list of just simple adjectives that you want people to know about your friend.

  • Scotty is a wonderful friend.

  • I love his loyalty.

  • I'm amazed by Matt's courage.

  • Focus on what is a story that best exemplifies that word.

  • He'll stand up to anyone, regardless of their size if they try to push past him at a rock concert.

  • [ LAUGHING ]

  • Did you ever see a guy with a gun shot wound trying to wave to a crowd?

  • That's what people who are receiving a bad toast have to do.

  • Roasting the couple during a toast is a don't.

  • You want to stay to interesting stories that don't involve risque behavior.

  • To the stylish nurse who enjoys an occasional lap dance from an Asian Transvestite.

  • This is a reception, this is like the classy part of the wedding weekend.

  • Usually with a lot of best men, it's the frat story, the drunk story.

  • One speech had the running theme that this guy liked to pee on his friends.

  • He's like our friends know about it. And I was like yeah but you're six people and the wedding is 200.

  • And one of those 200 people is like that guy's grandmother.

  • [ MUSIC ]

  • Great Shakespeare said best, " brevity is the soul of wit."

  • I say keep speeches, wedding toasts, 3-4 minutes max.

  • Rather you have them be like, oh I wish that was longer, than oh my god when will he stop.

  • [ MUSIC ]

  • Having a great toast at the reception really does sort of tie it all up together.

  • People cry, and laugh at good speeches, in the same speech

  • and that's because the person's present and they're really feeling it.

  • Having a great wedding toast, that's one of the key factors to giving definition

  • to this new life stage for this couple. It's an important part of the wedding.

  • [ MUSIC ]

  • Hey, speech coach Dion Flynn here. Make sure you subscribe to THNKR!

Everything is at stake in a wedding toast.

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如何給婚禮敬酒 (How to Give a Wedding Toast)

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    Chia Ling Chen 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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