Wedding Blog

Bestman Wedding Speeches

2010-02-15T21:12:00.000-08:00

As your best friend's best man it's now your duty to present the best of bestman wedding speeches. Now what? May be you've never done something like this before, and even just the thought of having to stand up in front of this large audience makes you cringe inside. What on earth are you going to talk about and how to make it sound funny, witty or at least smart?

Maybe you have given one of those bestman wedding speeches before and it really went down the tubes. You stood up in front of your audience and froze. All of those great words and anecdotes you had in mind to share were just wiped away, gone, absolutely inaccessible. You drew a blank, you picked the wrong story and now the groom's mom still gives you the look every time you go by their home.

I've been there, done that (and not in a great way the first time around, believe me). Where do you come up with the confidence to make bestman wedding speeches in front of a large audience? Well first of all, make sure you got your facts straight and written down; do a little bit of homework. You may have a great memory and among friends come up with the funniest things to say, but when you stand in front of a crowd (which is hardly anybody's comfort zone) nothing will just come out of your sleeve to save the day, not in my experience at least. Have a conversation with some people close to you about your common past and you can be pretty sure some heartwarming and funny memories from the long forgotten past will resurface, which your can then weave into bestman wedding speeches.

Before even going into the "how" part, just one quick thought: Keep your speech brief and to the point. At a wedding usually several speeches will be given and nobody wants to listen to someone rambling on and on. In my experience it really helps to build a structure for bestman wedding speeches, which you can then fill out with details. What do I mean? Well, write down a few points that need mentioning:

- An introduction to: who you are and why you are doing the speech, short and to the point. - A Beginning: What a terrific pair the bride and groom make and what makes them so. Take your time there. - A Middle Part: Where you fill things out with some anecdotes and memories to describe the groom in vivid color (funny is always good). - Winding down: With a projection of the couple's promising future. Short and sweet. - A Closing: Use a witty toast and make the guests laugh.

This gives you a map to follow for bestman wedding speeches. Otherwise you may be aimlessly floundering around in the murky waters of memories; some wonderful to be shared, some best forgotten. Pick out the stories you think best to use and make the groom come out as the knight in shining armor. There's just no way you can mess it up like that. It might be good to practice with someone. You could start out reading it out loud a few times and re-write any stumbling blocks in your speech patterns, then ask a friend to listen to you a couple of times. This way it'll all be more fluent. Keep your notes in your pocket on the wedding day; just in case that vocal paralysis is trying to get to you, it'll boost your confidence.

Just always keep in mind that it is your best friend getting married and that you will make this day even better by giving one of the best bestman wedding speeches the world has seen so far.

How to Make A Wonderful Wedding Speech

2010-02-15T20:47:00.000-08:00

New year is coming and many people begin to prepare their weddings in this golden time. More and more couples decide to stray from the traditional styles in wedding preparation.

Since that big day is just around the corner, many people will feel the stress of the coming wedding day, not only the couples who will be taking their vows to each other, but also the family members who will make the weeding speeches. It is a good ideal to search for the weeding speech in some search engines online if you never experienced to make the wedding speech before.

Usually the parents of the bride, the maids of honor and best men should give a speech. A witty, funny and touching speech can perk up the wedding celebration. Most speeches will start with the interesting anecdotes or the love story of the groom and the bride. Many traditional speeches are filled with sentimental thoughts and insights that will help the couples embark in the path of sweet and eternal marriage life.

The best way is to start a marriage speech with a joke. But you should be sure that the bride and the groom will not take the jokes personally. Before making your speech, check with someone to ensure that the jokes you use are good to go. It is always good that you have something up your sleeves to excite the guests there.

Basically, best man should choose what the program requires of him. Try to avoid spending too much time on your speech before taking up time for other speeches and events. A brief and wonderful speech is always appreciated. So you need to make a good preparation to keep your speech sharp and fun, and that is very important.

You can always use free wedding speech samples as a great blueprint to writing a wedding speech.

Sample Wedding Speeches - Wedding Speech Builder

2009-08-03T23:30:00.000-07:00

Wedding speech is one of the major features of wedding. It is the much-awaited part of wedding. There are usually three major wedding speeches. If you're going to give a speech at the wedding, you can use free wedding speech samples suitable for best men, fathers of the bride, maids of honor, brides and grooms, bridesmaids...Using a sample wedding speech to help craft your speech can cut down on the time it takes to write a speech from scratch, helping you out in a crisis situation, especially for you procrastinators out there!

Sample wedding speeches save you loads of time. You can use the sample wedding speech as an outline to follow, and just switch out words and phrases to make your speech fit well into it. It serves as a great tool (or guide, you could say) to go by. For those that don't know how to write a speech from scratch, using these samples will help them deliver a knock out wedding speech during the big day.

You can find them all over the internet. In fact, you can actually buy professionally written sample wedding speeches, guaranteed to help you make a speech that people will freak over!

Unusual Wedding Cakes

2009-08-03T23:20:00.000-07:00

A wedding cake is an integral part of any wedding ceremony. You can make some unusual wedding cakes with some wonderful toppings and icing for your very special day. Read on to get an interesting information about unusual wedding cakes.

If however you would like to have something different, something unique, something you, you will have to take the abovementioned steps a bit further. I have seen so many unusual wedding cake designs and loved the originality. Once you have all the elements you would like to have in your cake design, start selecting the ones you like best and draw the cake on a sheet of paper and no, you do not have to be an artist to be able to do this. It will just give you an idea of what you want.

It is a plus if you can afford a cake designer. If not take your ideas to the person who will create the cake. Or maybe you would like to make your own wedding cake. After following the procedure mentioned my daughter decided what she wanted and announced that she will be making the cake herself. She selected four different flavors for the layers that consisted of cheesecake, a decadent chocolate mousse, a key lime pie and a lemon meringue pie. We incorporated the help of family-to-be and close friends by having them taste the different layers and determining which ones would be used.

The best method for achieving your dream individual cake, is to create the design yourself. You would create the design within a computer program such as Photoshop or you could ask any friends who are artistic to draw the design for you. If you want to create the perfect unusual cake then detail is essential!

Wedding cakes don't have to be presented in tiered stands all of the time, you could create a totally unique presentation surround using different backdrops, especially if you have a specific theme to your event. The most important factor in creating a unique individual wedding cake, is the decoration.

When you have completed the initial design, create several more detailed designs, cake makers will need to be guided carefully so your custom design should be very detailed. This should not only incorporate the specific sugar craft designs but also sizes of individual elements within the design, colours of the individual elements and guidance for styling each element, especially when using sugar based components.

Your designer is your key to creating a totally bespoke, unique and individual wedding cake. Work closely with them and provide as much detailed guidance and help as possible and they will reward you with an outstanding cake to surprise all of your guests on your big day.

Celebrity Wedding Cakes

2008-06-04T07:01:00.000-07:00

Celebrity brides and grooms are leading the way in serving eye-catching wedding cakes with lots of color, odd shapes, one-of-a-kind designs, and unusual flavors. Here's a look at some celebrity wedding cakes.

Mariska Hargitay's Monogrammed CakeLaw and Order star Mariska Hargitay and and husbad Peter Hermann had LA best confectioners "Very Different Cakes" create a seven-foot-tall six-tiered chocolate and vanilla wedding cake topped by a swarovski crystal ode to their initials, "M&P." And not to mention that it went beautifully with her "enchanted forest" wedding theme.

Melissa Joan Hart's 3-tier Pistachio Cake Sabrina star Melissa Joan Hart and rocker Mark Wilkerson got married ina romantic ceremony in Florence Italy. Melissa selected an odd soundtrack for cutting the pistachio cake (the baker couldn't make the gold flowers they wanted, so they opted for purple): "Truly Scrumptious" from 1968's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of the couple's favorite movies.

First wedding cake

2008-06-04T05:56:00.000-07:00

I'm baking a wedding cake for the first time. I'm an experienced cook but not so much a baker. Unfortunately, I have to work all week and then we get on an airplane to go to our destination for the wedding. (only a 6 hour drive and transport for the cake is arranged)

Question #1-assume it's best to frost and use moistening syrup after arrival?

Question # 2-can I make the cake on the weekend before (sunday) for a saturday wedding? Can it be frozen unfrosted? Otherwise, I will be up all night baking Weds. night and it will still be three days old.

Question #3-neither of us like buttercream frosting. Found a wonderful recipe for a lemon cake with Blackberry moistening syrup, can I use a cream cheese frosting instead?

I have a yard full of fresh lemons just dying to be used for this cake/frosting.Thanks!I know everyone is going to say I took on too much but that's just me and the way I always, always do things. I'm a doctor so I guess I try to overachieve in everything that I do.