The biggest obstacle I found in delivering a wedding speech and funny wedding toasts was the lack of confidence. It was really weird because in my day-job I speak in front of large audiences on a regular basis and am never nervous and my talks are always very well received.
I therefore just assumed that I could deliver a funny wedding speech in the same way as I speak in my day job. However when it came down to it, the toast and wedding speech itself just were not very good or funny. I could not believe that delivering funny wedding toasts could be so difficult!
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Afterwards I tried to work out what the problem had been and it dawned on me that when I am speaking for a living, it is on a topic that a) I know very well and b) I have been speaking about for over fifteen years. This familiarity with the subject, I realized, is what drives my confidence.
When I tried to do a wedding speech followed by some funny wedding toasts however, I was not familiar with the material and I was not used to standing up in front of people and trying to be funny.
So with another wedding speech looming on the horizon, I needed to figure out how to solve these two problems. It came down to preparing funny material, and practicing it until it was almost word for word.
Funny Wedding Toasts – Ideas For Material
Ideas for material I got from a great book that I found online. The practice and tailoring of the toast I did on my own locked away for several hours!
The key is taking a well defined speech or funny wedding toasts framework and hanging all the unique things you want to say on that framework. There is no book that will give you every word of your speech but you can use their examples to build you own unique speech upon.
In terms of the humor – you need to be careful not to get too bawdy, or too sentimental. It is a fine line and a lot will also depend on your timing.
Funny Wedding Toasts – Practice Makes Perfect
However once you have been practicing the finished speech or funny wedding toasts for several hours, you will get so comfortable with the material that you will naturally find yourself ad-libbing and this is where you can get some real comedy gold coming out.
Once I had put all this into practice, the results were beyond my wildest dreams. No pre-speech fright and a laughing audience.
Being word-for-word prepared has been central to my ability to give funny wedding toasts and speeches.
