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05-29-2003, 11:32 PM
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The Best Man Toast...Ideas?
My brother is getting married this Sat. (May 31, 2003) and I am the best man. I have some ideas of what I am going to say, but I want something else to add that'll make it special.
Does anyone have any good quotes that'll really make the toast? Here's one I'm kinda fond of:
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction."
Any ideas?
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05-30-2003, 08:03 AM
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05-30-2003, 08:27 AM
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Theres about only 2 people in the entire reception that give a shit what the best man says during his toast. Everyone else just wants to go back to there conversations.
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05-30-2003, 10:05 AM
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Keep it short. A sentence or two is fine. Don't make people wait to get on with their dancing and partying.
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05-30-2003, 10:20 AM
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Keeping it short is good advice. I would suggesting trying for something personal instead of a quote. My youngest brother was my best man while still a teenager, and he got a big laugh by saying it was the first time he'd given a toast, the first time he'd been a best man, and the first time he'd worn a tuxedo. Then he wished us health and happiness and sat down.
At a good friend's wedding, his best man (also a friend of mine) told a 90-second story about the moment when he realized that his friend the groom had found the right woman. (The crux of the joke was that the groom is notoriously phlegmatic and unenthusiastic, so when he was asked whether he'd enjoyed his first date with his future bride and he answered, "YEAH!", his number was obviously up.) Got a big laugh, wished them health and happiness and sat down.
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05-30-2003, 10:25 AM
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1.Always tell a funny personal story about groom.
2.Give a good reason why the groom is lucky to have his new bride.
3. Tell them how happy you are for them.
4. Toast
5. Hit on bridesmaids.
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05-30-2003, 10:51 AM
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And do not get annihilated before giving the toast...
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05-30-2003, 10:54 AM
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George Costanza's curse toast. Doesn't matter what you say as long as it's littered with expletives.  |
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05-30-2003, 10:59 AM
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I think I might add this into the speech
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There are obviously two very important people here today, without whom very little of this would have been possible. And the great thing is that as the evening progresses, most of us will get to spend more and more time talking with them. So please join me in a very special toast – to the bar staff!
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05-30-2003, 11:35 AM
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"I once knew a man from Nantucket"....
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05-30-2003, 12:01 PM
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I was the best man in my brothers wedding. I basically said I wasn't big on public speaking so I am going to keep this short. I told them that I loved them, that I wished them the best, blah blah blah. Then I ended it with "Now hurry up and make me an uncle". I got a big laugh and my toast kinda set the tone for the next few toasts.
P.S. They made my toast wish come true on May 8th 
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05-30-2003, 12:03 PM
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About a year ago, I pulled my brother aside, and I told him, "You know what? So and so is a really wonderful woman, and she deserves a great man and a great husband. So you better marry that girl... before she finds one."
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"There's sauerkraut in my lederhosen"
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05-30-2003, 03:51 PM
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I rehashed every wedding toast I ever heard before "toasting" my nephew and his wife last year.
This is what I came up with.
1. No stories about other women. This is the bride's day. Don't even allude to it.
2. Memorize your toast. In one of the worst toasts I ever heard, the best man buried his head in four pages of yellow 8x14 paper and read with absolutely no emotion.
3. Laughs aren't always necessary. The best toast I ever heard was from my nephew, to me and my wife five years ago and he never even went for a laugh. It was pure sincerity. He got a bigger reaction than any joke.
4. If your nervous imagine everyone naked!
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