Please Help Me With A Wedding Toast

[Marxist]

I've been the best man in two weddings and both times I did a better than average toast at the rehearsal dinner and the dinner following the wedding.

This time however, the situation calls for something much more generic. I don't know the groom all that well (he's a very sweet guy) because I'm more of a friend to the bride than the groom.

Anyway, help a brotha out. The wedding is this weekend and time is of the essence.

 

[Marxist]

Does anybody know of a great toast from a movie or play? C'mon people.

 

[someplace]

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[perks]

http://speeches.com/instant6c.asp?speechnumber=43&quesnumber=1&uid=demo&questioncount=10&curcount=1&pwd=demo&ID=325585&sID=1&bIE=yes&suite=&starter=starter

 

[brokenbrainwave]

how about "well pal, I dont know if you have ever been in debt, but your going deep in the hole tonight"

is that generic enough?

 

[juicylips]

Sorry, M. I don't do wedding stuff.

I'm more into the bachelor party thing.

JL

 

[freescorfr]

I can't imagine you being anything other than terribly funny, Marxist. My only suggestion is to make it interactive, live. Like Dilly's "Ask me anything thread."
If you can toss off - metaphorically - hilarious one-liners, I expect it would be unforgetable.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Whhhaaaat's the deal with Weddings? Who are... these people?

 

[amelia]

i'm home for a break between classes and work..i'm laying on my tummy on my bed..and my cat is curled up on the small of my back. this has nothing to do with wedding toasts. i just wanted to say hi.


for a toast you can always focus it more toward the girl then the guy..and wish them well. a best man's toast doesn't HAVE to be about the groom...and if anyone tells you differently..just tell them to.....oops..i'll just edit that out.


that's right..i edited it!

 

[perks]

or you could just stand up drunkenly and say with a slur "at least you didn't meet him on a porn bulletin board... cheers, I know you're gonna be missin' my microchocopenis"

 

[Sillyman]

A few words on the nature of love and commitment should be plenty.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

How about,

"May the groom enjoy the bride as much as we did"

 

[Saytur]

do an internet search, I found lots of good stuff for my last best-man obligation.

 

[Spinaroonie]

that's right..i edited it!

Too bad this time the editing notice didn't appear

 

[Kitte]

On Marriage~ Kahlil Gibran

On Marriage


You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.

You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.

Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together:

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Shakespeare - Classic Sonnet used at Weddings

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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I actually married a couple once, a few years back, and recited this sonnet during the ceremony. I was a sensation. I swear, the bride wanted to do me right there...

 

[sunstruck]

Re: Shakespeare - Classic Sonnet used at Weddings

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I actually married a couple once, a few years back, and recited this sonnet during the ceremony. I was a sensation. I swear, the bride wanted to do me right there...

So you're an actor/write/comedian/magician/reverend?

MPD or ADD?

 

[TheDR4KE]

something that has worked for me

at a couple of weddings now...


Now that you are married there are four things you should never do:
Lie
Cheat
Steal, and
Drink.

But if you must lie, lie in each others' arms.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
If you must steal, steal away from bad company.
And if you must drink, drink with us,
for we are your friends.



Quack

the D

PS Edited to add that I found it on the web somewhere. Wish I'd written it myself though D.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

May the road rise up to meet you,
May the roof be strong over your head,
And may you be in Heaven half an hour
Before the Devil knows you're dead.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Re: Re: Shakespeare - Classic Sonnet used at Weddings

So you're an actor/write/comedian/magician/reverend?

MPD or ADD?

Universal Life Church. The couple signed me up on the Internet. Takes five minutes. It's not really necessary, though. They were legally married by the City, I was just the Officiant.

 

[sunstruck]

May the road rise up to meet you,
May the roof be strong over your head,
And may you be in Heaven half an hour
Before the Devil knows you're dead.

Classic Irish toast. Very nice.

In fact if they have a specific ethnic background try finding a traditional toast in it. The original (ie stolen from your friends on the internet)part can go first.

 

[christianne]

"May all your ups and downs be between the sheets!"

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Re: Shakespeare - Classic Sonnet used at Weddings

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

------------------------------

I actually married a couple once, a few years back, and recited this sonnet during the ceremony. I was a sensation. I swear, the bride wanted to do me right there...

Uh, Dixon, didn't Shakespeare write a lot of his stuff in public houses, meaning dirty bars full of whores? Is it proper to read such stuff at a wedding?

 

[APhil]

For the groom:

Here's to you and here's to me
May we never disagree
If we do, fuck you, here's to me.

Here's to honor: Jump on her and stay on her.


Seriously, though:

May those who love us, love us.
And to those who don't, may God turn their hearts.
And if God doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we know them by their limping.