May your love be added, may it never be subtracted, may your household multiply, and may your hearts never be divided!!
May you be friends to each other as only lovers can; and may you love each other as only best friends can.
May your love be modern enough to survive the times and old-fashioned enough to last forever!
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A good quote can add sparkle and personality to a wedding toast or speech. Of course, the quote is just one part of the speech. Creating the rest can bring a lot of stress on a day that should be filled with joy.
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Here’s to the new husband, and here’s to the new wife, may they remain lovers, for all of life.
Here’s to the groom with bride so fair,
And here’s to the bride with groom so rare!
Here’s to marriage: one soul in two bodies.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward.
Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown
May all your ups and downs
come only in the bedroom.
May the love you’ve expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.
May you never lie, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie with each other. And if you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with us for we all love you and wish you both the love and happiness of which you deserve.
A good quote can add sparkle and personality to a wedding toast or speech. Of course, the quote is just one part of the speech. Creating the rest can bring a lot of stress on a day that should be filled with joy.
That’s why we strongly recommend that you check out Weddingspeech4u.com. Each package they offer gives you more than 20 professionally written speeches customized for the role you’ll play in the wedding (bride, groom, best man, maid of honor, etc.), quotes, toasts, jokes, and often quick etiquette guides so you know you’ve taken care of everything.
The maid-of-honor wedding speech is different from the other speeches given at the reception. To some extent, you’ll be in competition with, or at lest compared to the other speakers who come first.
Yours speech is the most recent addition to the reception schedule. So you have the least baggage to contend with. The thank yous will be largely taken care of leaving you to focus on the bride.
The structure of the speech:
Introduce yourself - and your connection to the bride keeping the focus on her, not you.
Thank the bride and groom - For inviting you to be a part of their special day.
Tell a story - preferably light and funny, something that emphasizes your history with the bride, and definitely something that you can share with the guests.
Give the groom a few hints - about marriage andthe bride’s peccadilloes. Think about what you know about the bride that he might not, such as habits before they met or things she’s said about him.
Toast the couple - with a nice quote. Check out our posts with maid-of-honor quotes and blessings.
Best wishes to the guests for a joyful evening.
Though it’s a little tricky, the maid-of-honor speech can be very moving and memorable. Let your personal experiences with the bride be your guide and you’ll create a memorable, honoring speech.
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Bride’s speeches are becoming increasingly popular. They give the bride an opportunity to add her unique perspective and express her wishes during the reception.
The basic structure of the bride’s speech is similar to other wedding speeches:
Express gratitude to family (including in-laws) and friends,
Offer an amusing or insightful story (often about the groom),
Toast the groom with a quote, and
Introduce the next speaker.
But that’s just the beginning. Because the bride’s speech is new on the scene, it’s not loaded down with tradition and expectation. So you should feel free to show more of yourself.
Here are some options you might want to consider:
Combine your speech - with your husbands as a duet or counterpoint on a topic meaningful to you.
Give your thoughts - or philosophy on love, marriage, commitment, or growth.
Offer lessons - you’ve learned from others in the ceremony.
Give wishes as gifts - to those who’ve given gifts to you.
There’s a lot of room to express your individuality with your speech in what you include and where you place the speech in the order of the evening.
A little thought and preparation can make your speech a touching part of an evening you’ll remember forever.
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You’re a member of the wedding party, congratulations!
So, you’re expected to come up with a memorable wedding toast or speech, something poignant, appropriate, insightful, and a little funny.
Here are some quick tips to make you a success.
First, a toast alone is a bit naked. Part of honoring the couple, or the attendeees, is acknowledging them and their importance to you. So, plan on saying at least a few words.
Here’s a structure that can help:
Introduce yourself. Whatever role you’re playing in the wedding, it’s a good get that a handful of people don’t know you. You’re the maid-of-honor and they’re friends of the groom or the mother-of-the-groom.So, let people know your relationship to the couple in a way that focuses on them, not you. Rather than saying, “boy, when she met me was I really snockered”, but “boy, when I met her I could see she held herself with grace, even in when some around her didn’t.”
Use your first quote: here’s a good time to insert a quote appropriate to the day and your relationship. You could use a quote about marriage, friendship, relationship, or transitions, for example.
Tell a story or anecdote about the couple the reveals how far they’ve come or how successful they are likely to be.
Use your final quote: this time try a traditional blessing (you’ll find suggestions on the side bar).
When you’re done, you’re done. Don’t go on. Let the blessing speak for itself. Simply raise your glass.
The speech can be very short, but this is one you’ll want to rehearse. You’re tendency will be to cut it too short or to ramble. So, run it through a couple of times, focusing on natural transitions. Figure out how each part will flow into the next.
As you can see, each part of the speech is brief enough that with a little preparation, you can fashion a speech that will be memorable and have a big impact on the occasion.
Here are some quotes you can use about a groom’s relation to his bride. Some are loving, some a little edgy.
Diane Sollee
Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
David Levesque
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Brendan Francis
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Mark Twain
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Ronald Reagan
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day, knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Timothy Titcomb, J. G. Holland
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
Here’s to the groom, a man who kept his head even while he lost his heart.
(Groom), take (Bride)’s hand and place yours over hers. Now, remember this moment and cherish it…because it will be the last time you’ll ever have the upper hand!
Even the most self-confident people, who are reasonably well versed at public speaking, get the jitters when they’re asked to speak at somebody’s wedding: the weight of expectation resting on you, as the speech-maker, is pretty huge.
And when you’re the Best Man, the responsibility is even bigger: not only do you have to make a speech, but you make the speech (as the person who knows the groom better than anyone else) and the toast to the bride and groom.
Is there any room left over for you to have a good time?
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It’s not just making the speech that’s scary – it’s also coming up with the necessary poignant, personal, pithy, witty, emotional, and meaningful ideas, jokes, and one-liners that make a speech memorable for all the right reasons.
