Most guests look forward to the wedding toast, but there are no rules engraved in stone that you need to add a toast activity into the wedding, you’re definitely free to leave it out, it’s your wedding. But for those of you who feel that a wedding toast is an essential component of a wedding, there are manythings that you can do to spice it up.

One popular wedding toast, is to incorporate the toast into the wedding video,and essentially have all of your closest friends and families state aTiny special something about the bride and groom.  The video toast is a great way to give everyone a voice and help them share a heartfelt message that wouldn’t be appropriate at the wedding reception.

Another wedding toast is to have one person at each table be required to make a toast. Number the tables and at various intervals, have the MC or DJ call a number, which will require guests at that table to decide amongst themselves who will give the toast at that table. Certainly, more than one person can if they like, but there will likely be at least one ham at each table who will enjoy standing up and toasting the newlyweds.

Say you have plenty of public speakers in the group, and finding willing toast participants will not be a problem. But you think the subject matter might be. There’s an simple solution to this problem. You can provide open-ended topics for the toast speakers. Say you’re providing an “open mike” toast arrangement, where anyone can request the microphone and offer a toast. The DJ, MC or someone else in the wedding celebration (perhaps the maid of honor or best man) can offer the speaker a surprise topic, which might be pulled from a champagne flute or drawn out of the floral arrangement on the head table. There might be slips of paper to choose, or just one sheet of paper with several ideas.

The speaker might choose to complete this sentence, “I remember when (groom’s name here) was aTiny boy, he always …” or answer this question, “When was (insert bride’s name here) at her silliest? Tell us the story”. You might have to give each speaker a minute or two to collect their thoughts, but you are sure to have some interesting stories, somevery special anecdotes and some different perspectives on the bride and groom.

There are no limitations to the number of ideas regarding the wedding toast, and it should reflect who you’re as a couple. You can often include wedding toasts to the delight of your guests, and ideal of all, you will have memories to share for many many years to come.