Oh, the infamous Wedding Toast. Have you, at any point, given a speech or made an introduction at work, school or a club? If yes, you may know the importance of opening with a joke…or a profound statement. Something to get the audience’s attention and something with a topic to manufacture your talk around. A similar hypothesis works with wedding toasts. You just have a couple of moments toward the beginning of your dialogue to snatch your audience members and bring them in, get them intrigued by what you’re stating and anxious to hear more. A decent beginning can frequently prompt an incredible completion.
A wedding toast is a few words of wishes or blessings for the newlywed couple, after which all the guests take a sip of drink in agreement. A good wedding toast is one that strikes the right balance between humor and emotion, is short and sweet, and will be remembered as a great closing to your speech.
The number one rule is: be clear-headed. This isn’t a chance to drunkenly slur into a microphone. And always practice what you’re going to say so it’s not an impromptu stream of words and wishes. If in any doubt, use a wedding toast quotation and just end with “To the happy couple!”
No matter the size of the wedding guest list, or the venue following the wedding – a toast or multiple toast are always appropriate.
The traditional wedding toast order is the father of the bride, groom and the best man, but don’t feel limited to just these. These can be followed by any other toasts. It’s totally up to the couple how many toasts they’d like to have (just make sure not to make it last too long as people want to eat and dance!)
Here’s who each must remember to toast:
- The father of the bride toasts his daughter and the new couple
- The groom toasts his new spouse
- The best man toasts the new couple and the bridesmaids
Other toasts may include the maid of honor toasting the groom.
Here, you will discover an assortment of quotes that you can use to springboard your very own toast. Open with them, close with them, use them in your toast to underline your point. Take them and bend them to suit the couple. Line them up with a well-arranged punchline to get a giggle. The choices are unending, so investigate the accompanying list:
“Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years. May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.” — Apache Wedding Blessing
“If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.” — Geoffrey Chaucer
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon
“Think not because you are wed that all your courtship is at an end.” — Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
“If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.” — Marianne Williamson
“Man gets nothing brighter than a kind wife.” — Semonides of Amorgos
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.” — Andre Maurois
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” — Michel de Montaigne
“We attract hearts by the qualities we display. We retain them by the qualities we possess.” — Jean Suard
“To love anyone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage” — Lao Tzu
“If you would love, love and be lovable.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” — Rose Kennedy
“Blessed are the man and woman who have grown beyond themselves.” — Psalm 1
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry Ford
“Love …has the greatest power and is the source of all our happiness and harmony and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with each other.” — Plato
“If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven’t really learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” — Elizabeth Barrett
“Everything comes to us from others. To be is to belong to someone.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
“All that I am, my mother made me.” — John Quincy Adams
“Noble fathers have noble children.” — Euripides
“A true friend is someone who can make us do what we can.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Or, search the internet and find something that your prefer – personally I like anything from Winston Churchill(of course case specific): “Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”
In the alternative, you can’t go wrong with a classic – these traditional wedding toasts and wedding toast quotes below will make sure you’re never lost for words.
“Here’s to the past, for all that you’ve learnt. Here’s to the present, for all that you share. Here’s to the future, for all that you’ve got to look forward to.”
“May
these rich blessings be your due…
A wealth of friendships, old and new,
Quiet nights and busy days, time for prayer and time for praise,
Some service rendered, some solace given,
And gentle peace with God and heaven.”
“May
thy life be long and happy,
Thy cares and sorrows few;
And the many friends around thee
Prove faithful, fond and true.”
“May your wedding days be few and your anniversaries many.”
“Please make sure your glasses are charged and join me in toasting the new Mr. and Mrs. [NAME]. Ladies and gentlemen, to the bride and groom!”
“May you live as long as you like and have all you like for as long as you live.”
“May
the hinges of friendship never rust
Or the wings of love lose a feather!
Ladies and gentlemen, the bride and the groom
May they live happily forever.”
“To the bride and groom, may the roof above you never fall in and may you both never fall out.”
“Let’s drink to love, which is nothing – unless it’s divided by two.”
“May you never steal, lie, or cheat, but if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, lie with me all the nights of my life, and if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn’t live a day without you.”
“I
wish thee health; I wish thee wealth
I wish thee gold in store
I wish thee heaven upon earth.
What could I wish thee more?”
“Here’s to the new husband and here’s to the new wife. May they remain lovers for all of life.”
“To long life and happiness – for your life will be my happiness.”
“To the lamp of love – may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.”
“Here’s
to the bride,
May your hours of joy be as numerous as the petals of your bridal bouquet.
Here’s to the groom,
A man who keeps his head though he loses his heart.”
“Live life to the fullest – remember, this is the first day of the rest of your life.”
“Here’s
to love, laughter
and happily ever after.
As (Groom) and (Bride) start their new life,
Let’s toast the new husband and wife!”
“Let us raise our glasses to the happy couple. May you grow old on one pillow.”
“Here’s
to the bride and the bridegroom,
We’ll ask their success in our prayers,
And through life’s dark shadows and sunshine
That good luck may always be theirs.”
“May
your joys be as deep as the ocean,
and your troubles as light as its foam.”
(A
toast to grandparents) “Let us raise our glasses
And then imbibe
To the splendid couple
Who founded this tribe.”
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