You know how as a kid, you would death grip a baseball bat or golf club when you were up for bat or at the tee, and all the boys were watching? Shanked it right? Well, a key to both of these sports is breathing, which tends to relax your nerves, and your death grip. [...]
Practice makes perfect when it comes to wedding speeches. Now, that doesn’t mean that you have to go crazy and practice 15 times, but it does mean that you should practice your wedding speech, out loud, in front of someone else (your best man?) at least once. Add to that two practice runs on your [...]
This week we’re giving some tips for grooms on making their wedding speech or a toast. We’re focusing this week on what it takes to make a great wedding speech (or a least a good one that you survive intact.) The most important thing you can do is to write your wedding speech down on [...]
Handing over complete control during an event as important as a wedding can be nerve-wracking. Whom amongst your set of friends and family can you trust to speak with confidence, stay on task, and keep the “troops” entertained for the duration of the reception? (And without offending the flower girl and the groom’s great Aunt, [...]
The wedding speech is something that many grooms dread. Public speaking is foreign to most of us unless we are in a profession that demands it, and then there’s the part about what the hell to say. For a groom who’s a little on the shy side, getting up in front of friends and family [...]
Nothing’s worse than the microphone being handed off to a groomsmen who is terrified of public speaking and can’t remember the bride’s name in a moment of pure panic; equally awkward is when the wedding emcee opens up the floor to “anyone who’d like to say a word” and suddenly the sounds of crickets [...]