Avoid embarrassment prepare ahead for your wedding toast.

Brides and grooms please warn your toasters of their duties days ahead. If they have no experience print this and give it to them or tell them Google "wedding toasts" or get them a book. You will be glad you did! Your videographer and photographer want you to stand close to your toaster as if you are posing for a photo ... because you are!

Be prepared. Rehearse it.

Keep it short. One minute is ideal. Three minutes is maximum.

Toasts should be well thought out and should enhance the presentation.

Keep it light, politically correct, complimentary, sincere and tasteful.

Tipsy toasts are a no-no. If you've had too much to drink, let someone else do the honors.

Don't try to be funny if you're not naturally funny.

Avoid the trite, the political, the put-down and the off-color.

For those who have no experience relax giving a wedding toast is not hard to do right ...

All proper toasts have an opening middle and conclusion. The opening is pretty standard and so is the conclusion.

So here you go... If there is not a DJ to MC the reception and gain the attention of the crowd for you, or he is not savvy enough to help and introduce the toast, take authority and gain the attention of the crowd, ... depending on the atmosphere and culture what is proper or acceptable will vary greatly, you may start by standing and asking for attention, if this is not successful try clinking your glass with an eating utensil ( until the crowd joins in and the couple kisses or attention shifts to you ). If you are at a loud reception with plastic beer cups and forks try a loud whistle or if necessary some firecrackers ... which will create a brief lull in the conversation. Here is your opportunity ... with a confident voice (use a microphone if available, hold it up to your mouth, not to your belly!) begin by announcing "Ladies and Gentlemen could I have your attention please it is now time for the toast" next introduce yourself " Good evening my name is ___I am the best man, ... Now the middle ... this next part may start with a story, a memory, or you may want to get sentimental then maybe a quote, a word of wisdom or wit , it is completely up to you as to how you want to proceed ... several suggestions are listed below for inspiration. The conclusion is the most important part to get right because the crowd is looking to you for direction. Lift your glass as a cue to the crowd and ask,"Would everybody lift your glass ... here's to ___ & ___ ". So you're done ... that wasn't so hard ... clink your glass with the bride and groom take a sip then pass the microphone on to the next person or ask would anyone else like to toast our couple. You were brilliant!

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
My Greatest wish for the two of you is that through the years your love for each other will so deepen and grow, that years from now you will look back on this day, your wedding day, as the day you loved each other the least.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
It don't matter where you get your appetite, as long as you eat at home!

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.

Wedding Toast, From the Bride to the Groom or From the Groom to the Bride
Here's to the prettiest, here's to the wittiest, Here's to the truest of all who are true, Here's to the neatest one, here's to the sweetest one, Here's to them, all in one - here's to you.

Wedding Toast, to the Groom
Here's to the groom, a man who keeps his head though he loses his heart.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all, two.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
May the roof above you never fall in and may you both never fall out.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
To the lamp of love - may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride
May she share everything with her husband, including the housework.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
May 'for better or worse' be far better than worse.

Wedding Toast, From the Groom to the Bride
She knows all about me and loves me just the same.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, You will always see the dear face and feel The warm heart union of your eternal love.

Wedding Toast, From the parents of the Bride and Groom
It is written: when children find true love, parents find true joy. Here's to your joy and ours, from this day forward.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
May you have many children and may they grow mature in taste and healthy in color and as sought after as the contents of the glass.

Wedding Toast, to the gathering
Let us toast the health of the bride; Let us toast the health of the groom, Let us toast the person that tied; Let us toast every guest in the room.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Remember that if you ever put your marital problems on the back burner they are sure to boil over.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
May we all be invited to tour golden wedding celebrations.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Congratulations on the termination of your isolation and may I express an appreciation of your determination to end the desperation and frustration which has caused you so much consternation in giving you the inspiration to make a combination to bring an accumulation to the population.

Wedding Toast, From the Bride and Groom
May our children be blessed with rich parents!

Wedding Toast, From the Bride to the Groom or From Groom to Bride
I have known many, Liked not a few, Loved only one I toast to you.

Wedding Toast, From the Bride's Mother to the Groom
To the man who has conquered the bride's heart, and her mother's.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Here's to the groom with bride so fair, And here's to the bride with groom so rare!

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the Promised Land without going through some wilderness together.

Quotes for a Best Man Wedding Toast

Anonymous
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.

Robert Frost
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Allan K. Chalmers
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Diane Sollee
Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.

Timothy Titcomb, J. G. Holland
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

David Levesque
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.

Rabindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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.