I’m toastmastering in my BFF’s wedding in a month and would like some tips and tricks please. I’m used to speaking in public and leading debates and so on but those are all more official things.
What have been the most (and least!) successful things you have done, or witnessed someone done, as toastmaster at a wedding?
We had a toastmaster at our wedding. It was included in the venue hire, so we just went along with it without really knowing what it meant.
Having him was undoubtedly one of the best parts of the day.
He made sure that we kept to schedule. He organised the whole day, pretty much down to the minute. He introduced the speeches, and gave a very short speech himself. If he wasn’t there it’d have been some combo of the photographer and the caterer keeping things moving, and it wouldn’t have been anywhere near as stress-free.