Wedding Toasts for the Groom

Did you know there are two times the groom is expected to give a toast? The rehearsal dinner and the wedding reception. Did you know that studies have shown that 70% rank giving a speech as thing they are most afraid of?

Craig Michaels, author of Thirty to Wife: The Tell-All Groom’s Guide to Weddings - How to Get Hitched Without Losing Your Mind or Your Fiancee, offers some great advice for the groom when it’s time to give his wedding toasts. Ladies, this book would also make a great gift for your man if you think he can help out a little more in the planning process. Craig gives some great advice based on the last thirty days before his wedding.

Here’s some of the advice from Craig’s book…

Rehearsal Dinner Toast
- Thank your fiancé for picking you
- Thank your parents for this event and for being there through the years
- Thank the groomsmen for their support
- Same for the bridesmaids
- Share a family anecdote

Things to do:
- Practice
- Keep it at a PG rating or less

Things not to do:
- Don’t give a graphic recount of the bachelor party!
- Don’t take too long
- Don’t lament over the one that got away
- Don’t drink too much

He also gives a list of what to say at the reception, including some suggested wording.

Any other advice for our grooms when it’s time to make that dreaded wedding toast?

For the wedding reception here are some suggested toasts:

- The standard best man toast to the bride and groom
- The groom makes a toast to the bride and her family
- Both fathers make a toast to the bride and groom

- Something new now is for the mother of the bride to make a toast

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Rhonda

Our Wedding Plus

Thanks to thetejon for the picture!

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