Funny wedding toasts can transform a speech. There is nothing worse than humorless wedding toasts or speeches. I know this because I have given them and listened to them! If we want to be able to give funny wedding toasts we need to have the confidence, understand the audience and prepare thoroughly.
Not everyone is born to be a stand up comedian. Very few people are able to stand up like Billy Connelly and give an hilarious stream of consciousness monologue to keep a crowd of 200 wedding guests entertained. In fact, to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, most people put a fear of public speaking above fear of death, so they would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy!
So given the fact that at some point in our lives we will be called upon to give a wedding toast or wedding speech, how can we avoid the gut wrenching anxiety during dinner before the speech and most importantly when the time comes, deliver a funny and sparkling toast or speech that will be remembered for ever?
The easiest way is to get a book with lots of ideas for funny wedding toasts such as funny groom toasts or best man speech toasts. You can find quite a lot of these types of books at your local bookstore but they can be quite expensive and may not be dedicated to the type of speech you are going to give. I gave up looking for offline books after not really being able to find something funny enough for the occasion (the guys getting married, Tom (my cousin) and Sarah are a real pair of jokers so they were expecting something pretty good from my speech) and I eventually started looking online.
At first I thought I would try and get something for nothing and I looked for free wedding toasts. There are a few around but honestly they are extremely lame and pretty much unusable. It’s only when I was prepared to pay a little that the content started to get exponentially better.
In the end I found an online book with exactly the right sort of funny wedding toasts I needed for my speech. I downloaded it straight away and was able in minutes to use several of the speeches in the book to tailor my own speech to Tom and Sarah. This preparation gave the confidence I needed so I was relaxed all day leading up to the speech and in the end, after my final toast, everyone was on their feet. It was quite something. The turn around from my previous efforts was unbelievable and I no longer have that pre-speech dread and now actually look forward to giving speeches!
