An Easy Guide to wedding speeches, this book offers instant help and systematic cures.
You'll be fine on the day if you read this book. A wedding speech is easier than you think, as this helpful book will demonstrate.
First you need to know where to start;
"Ladies and Gentlemen.... "and your off.
Relax and let your own sincerity and humor do the rest. Helped by the useful advice in this book, you will know the drill about speeches and toasts, and have plenty of bright ideas about what to say.
You and the guests will enjoy it.....
There is to be a wedding. It may be a small wedding or it may be a grand wedding. You are the bride or the groom or the bride's father or the best man. You have to, or wish to, make a speech. 'No problem at all,' you think, when the date is way in the future. 'I've never had to make a speech before, but I’ll be among friends. A couple of drinks inside me and I’ll put Mark Antony and Abraham Lincoln to shame!'
Then the big day gets closer, and closer, and your self-confidence starts to wane a little. Before you know it, you have those twinges in the stomach that usually go with job interviews, and a huge panic of 'What on earth can I say?' 'Will I make a fool of myself?' 'Will I ruin the whole occasion?'
This book won't prevent the stomach twinges - even the most experienced public speakers get them - but, provided you don't postpone reading through it until the last moment, it will stop the panic and should boost your self-confidence.
From it you can get ideas for your own speech, or even a ready-made speech that you can adapt as your own. You can find guidance in planning what you are going to say, on preparing yourself and, perhaps most important of all, on how to present your speech.