Best man toast tomorrow, any last minute advice?

[goofball]

I gave a very good one a while back. Tell a funny embarrassing but appropriate story about the groom, if you're awesome like me you can tie that into how great the bride is. After the planned stuff I ad-libbed a bit, remember you're just talking to your buddy/brother, tell him how happy you are for him, something you noticed during the ceremony, whatever.

[Losing all]

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i would write something down. i was best man at my brothers wedding and just winged it drunkenly. i remember it not being that good.

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I did this for my cousin, didn't go well. no boos though

ETA- I went with the don't know her that well bit too (even though I did, and hated her). I was really bad

[JaredL]

Having never done it I don't have anything to add, certainly anything beyond some of the solid advice from coors and others.

I've been to 5 or 6 weddings in the last ten years. In every single one the maid of honor absolutely owned the best man giving a (usually) long, emotional, well-prepared toast. The best man then just said a few lines and something like "You guys know how much I love you both and how happy I am for you." This was probably more honest or certainly natural than what the maid of honor said or some of the above, but the prepared toasts sounded significantly better.

After the maid of honor speeches it sounded like the best men didn't really care.

[El Diablo]

Jared,

Stories are key!

[goofball]

Jared,

I pwned the maid of honor thank you very much.

[felson]

Here are some good lines to use:

"True love is the soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another."

"You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts."

[guids]

Im assuming there will be video taping of this event?


I propose a collective pool for the OP. If he reads the speech from Independence Day, really forcefully, and then stops half way through, and says "oh, man, wrong speech, my fault", he gets the pool. that would be awesome.

[Borodog]

I haven't read the rest of the thread, but I just wanted to say that not only do I not want to know what "man toast" is, I REALLY don't want to know what would qualify it as the "best."

[kyleb]

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Im assuming there will be video taping of this event?


I propose a collective pool for the OP. If he reads the speech from Independence Day, really forcefully, and then stops half way through, and says "oh, man, wrong speech, my fault", he gets the pool. that would be awesome.

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god that would be sick

[Dudd]

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Im assuming there will be video taping of this event?


I propose a collective pool for the OP. If he reads the speech from Independence Day, really forcefully, and then stops half way through, and says "oh, man, wrong speech, my fault", he gets the pool. that would be awesome.

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god that would be sick

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And once you screw up, you can quickly segue into how ironic it is that you mixed up your speech with Independence Day's, since this is the last free day of your friends life. This needs to happen.