Traditional Wedding Toasts
Turn to the traditional wedding toasts if you find you've been tapped to give a wedding toast and you're not sure how to go about putting one together or exactly what to say. The newer snappier toasts are okay if you are sure of yourself and know exactly what to include in the toast, but when it comes to conveying to the bride and groom the sentiments you feel you'll find the traditional wedding toasts have become so because they work, and will allow your sincerity to come through because you are more apt to deliver them properly since they are familiar.
No one expects you to stand up in front of the room at the wedding reception, and give an original innovative wedding toast especially when most of them have known you for years and know how your knees are quavering and your heart is pounding just at the thought of giving the toast. They just want you to be sincere in toasting the couple, and even though the trend today seems to be to break away from old traditions and do your own thing, that does not work for everyone and here's where the one of the traditional wedding toasts would fill the bill.
The problem with the new “out of the box” wedding toasts we hear these days, is that they get bogged down in nervousness and quite often, the toast giver goes blank in the middle of what was to be a sparkling example of new ideas and maybe a new tradition in the making. Maybe so.....the new toasts being given today may well be the traditional toasts of the future and if you can pull it off with grace and panache, then by all means do it.
But if that is more than you can handle with the combatting of nerves that come with the day and everything you have to remember..........then don't shoot yourself in the foot by trying to learn a trendy, cutesy, off the wall toast.........just take one of the traditional wedding toasts and make it yours. Modify one of the traditional wedding toasts with your humor and speech patterns and use your own words where you can, then you will find you will be far more comfortable in your own skin when the moment of speech giving arrives.
Finally, just remember, you can never go wrong including the sentiments of: “May all your troubles be small ones; May all your dreams come true; and May your days be filled with love, light, and laughter.” Everyone at the wedding from the bridal couple down to the guests, loves these traditional wedding toasts and relives memories as they hear them again. You can rearrange words, add words, personalize it however you want...........just remember to keep it short. You are giving a toast at a wedding, not a speech on the White House lawn.
What you want in the end, is a wedding toast that sounds just right and conveys your heartfelt sentiments, and even though being trendy and innovative may be the way to go for many people these days; if you are not comfortable with that when you are the one having to speak, then go with one of the traditional wedding toasts and do your thing. Remember they have become traditional because they work, so take it from there.