"Learn How You Too Can Be A Successful Wedding Master Of Ceremonies"
The wedding reception is just so important to the married couple and their friends. You know how you perform your role will have a big influence on how well everyone will remember the wedding.
"It’s the big day. The rings are exchanged. The Bride looks radiant; the Groom looks dapper; and their parents are bursting with pride. Everything is going according to plan. The reception facility is buzzing with professional caterers, photographers and musicians. Weeks of work have gone into orchestrating the event.
Yet the emcee – the one person who plays an absolutely critical role in the evening’s success – is already on his fourth trip the bar and turning his tux pockets inside out searching for the names of the people in the wedding party that he jotted down on a cocktail napkin half an hour ago.
Today, when the average cost of a wedding runs around $20,000 (most of which goes to the reception), couples can’t afford to hinge the event’s success on an inept and ill-prepared Master of Ceremonies."
It's really easy to be a great wedding MC. As the MC you will be the conductor, not the featured performer. You don't have to be capable of an Oscar winning performance, or a masterful stand up comic. Your main function is to keep the reception on track, on schedule and everything happening in accordance with the bridal couple’s wishes. You need to treat the event as a celebration to honor the bride and groom, not as a seedy roast more appropriate for the bachelor dinner. Be brief, keep what you say light and good fun, help everyone else to make their contributions, and make a star out of each of the main wedding participants, not out of yourself.
The book is based on Haibeck’s experience in helping to plan and emcee hundreds of weddings, meetings and special events during his 25+ year career as a public relations consultant. As such, he walks readers through the manner in which a professional event planner coordinates an event – from the need to work with the bridal couple in plotting the evening’s agenda to how to welcome guests, introduce speakers, acknowledge the head table and other special guests, make toasts and keep the wedding reception moving along.
The books also contains helpful tips on how to deal with those pre-speech nerves, proven methods to add fun and flair to the event plus a compendium of suggested wedding toasts, one liners and famous quotations on the subject of marriage.
“It’s a good idea to keep the after-dinner speeches to around 30 minutes in total, with individual toasts clocking in at no more than five minutes each,” counsels Haibeck. “To go beyond that time period is to risk losing your audience – they’ll all be at the bar!”
He also suggests people take an anecdotal approach to humor (rather than trying to tell long-winded jokes that become exceedingly difficult to tell before a large audience). “And if you’re compelled to launch a few zingers, be sure to balance that with a few self-effacing remarks about yourself.” He cautions against the use of a lot of inside humor that only a few people will appreciate.
Being a wedding master of ceremonies is a very responsible role. You have a huge influence on how well the newly married couple and their guests will enjoy the day. But it is not your day. You need to know how to balance taking charge to move the event along with the need to keep unobtrusive enough to make sure the newly married couple remain the stars of the day. It's not that hard to do with proven guidance from:
Tom Haibeck's The Wedding
MC
A
Complete Guide to Success for the Father of the Bride, Best
Man or Event Host Who Gets To Be The Wedding
Emcee
Tom's book has been written to help anyone asked to make
toasts or speeches at a wedding reception. The guide contains
a wealth of invaluable advice for the the Wedding Emcee, with
extra tips to help if the Wedding MC is also the Best Man.
Topics
covered include:
- Advice
on how to research, write and deliver an effective wedding
toast or speech
- Tips on
how to deal with your stage-fright and nervousness
- Suggestions
on the use of humor -- how to keep it clean but funny
- Hundreds
of suggested one-liners to help lighten up your
presentation
- Proven
methods to ensure the Bride, Groom & invited guests
thoroughly enjoy their evening
- What you
need to know about using a microphone & sound system
- A
complete review of the Wedding Emcee's duties
- Advice
on how to plan the wedding reception for best results
- 59 key
questions a master of ceremonies MUST ask the Bride and her
Mother with regard to the reception
- A sample
agenda from a successful wedding reception, along with an
easy-to-use worksheet to create your own wedding reception
agenda
- A primer
on how to prepare your presentation and make an effective
wedding toast
- Power
tips for delivering your toast or speech with confidence
and class
- A review
of the Wedding MC's duties before, during and after the
wedding
- Hundreds
of suggested one-liners, toasts and marriage-related
stories
- Suggested themes and content for your wedding toast, whether it's a Toast to the Bride, the Groom's response, a Toast to the Bridesmaids, or a Toast from the Father of the Bride, you'll find a treasure-trove of audience-winning ideas for your toast or wedding speech
To read more and download the book click on:
Tom Haibeck's The Wedding MC
And see a selection of Tom's funny wedding toasts, that he does
not recommend you use!
See also:
Wedding Speeches For The Best
Man
Wedding Speeches For The
Groom
Wedding Speeches For The Father Of The
Bride
Wedding Speeches For The Mother Of The
Bride
Wedding Speeches For The
Bride
Wedding Speeches For The Maid Of
Honor
Master Wedding Planning Guide
Secrets
Bachelor Party Planner
