The Best Man Speech and Wedding Protocol
The Best Man Speech and Wedding Protocol
The Best Man Speech and Wedding ProtocolWhen your friend asks you to be the best man at his wedding, what does he actually mean? Well, he means that he trusts your words and knows that if you raise a toast to his happy and healthy marriage, it shall indeed turn out to be so. It's an honour, isn't it? This is perhaps the best time to tell your friend what he means to you and wish for his happiness in the bestest of words.
The best man speech wedding protocol is usually (or is expected to be) packed with humour. But amidst the heavy showers of humour, do not forget to include the silver lining of good words about your friend and his new wife. It is important, if not obligatory, for you to build up your friend's image in everyone's eyes. Your friend would definitely be the focal point of your jokes and punches, but keep in mind that everything should ultimately reflect the good side of the groom's personality and character.
You will need to imbibe into the best man speech, instances from years of your friendship. This will also project how close you are to the groom. Recall incidents that everyone can understand and relate to. Do not talk about things that may be funny but too intimate or embarrassing (for the groom) to share.
When the groom would ride on the major part of your speech, what would ride on the audience's/guests' mind would be the bottom line': the toast. You can say something as simple as to the health and happiness of the newly wed' or may you have a long and lovely life together'; or you can add a twist to finish your speech at the crest by raising a toast that would be hard to forget.
Here are a few examples:
Here I go to toast the new couple; may the destiny apply a generous buttering so that you be as simple and inevitable an accompaniment to happiness as is toast and butter to tea!
And before I raise a toast fill your glasses to the brim: May your life together be so full of all you want that nothing you don't want finds place to sneak in!
If raising a glass to toast bestows happiness upon the new couple, I raise an entire winery
The ultimate pleasure: golden wine in a crystal glass the ultimate in marriage - golden jubilee! Here is a toast to herald the golden years of a relationship bonded with crystal clear love
Some famous quotes that can be incorporated into a toast:
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen." Let me propose a toast may you two keep finding that ghost' in each other throughout and throughin your life
May you never just feel that you can live with each other Hope, instead, you always find it impossible to do away with each other; because it is said, "You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
May your marriage remain so fresh that even on the groom's last day at work, the bride makes him "glad to come home" and the groom makes her "sorry to see him leave."
Let not pride come in the way when you praise the groom and let modesty not be an issue when you make wishes for him and see your speech (and modesty) become your friend's pride!