I was asked to give a toast at my best friends wedding?

Question

Can you help me with something thoughtful and eloquent to say besides you two are great together yadda yadda yadda have a lot of kids and blagh blagh! good quotes, or poetry (short) Thanks A

Answer 1

Seems like you already know what to say.

Answer 2

Here are some quotes that may help-

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
-Mark Twain

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation
-Anonymous

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
-Maxim Gorky

I like this one a lot:

'Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your
hand and mine-
Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine
For shelter is gone when the night is o'er,
and bread lasts only a day
But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice
Live on in the soul always.
-Spencer M. Free


Good Luck!
Blessings to the Bride and Groom!

Answer 3

When I gave a toast at my cousin's wedding, I used something that I believe in very much.

I said that a man's greatness can be judged by his friends and the company he keeps. I went on to say that I must really be great because of having the opportunity to have him as a friend and cousin.

Sometimes a anectdote of a funny situation that you two were in can lead to relaxing the tension of standing in front of a room full of people. When I got married, my cousin told a story about me being dragged on the back of his snowmobile by a rope tied to a sled and how I ended up in a tree when he played crack the whip - it lightened the crowd and loosened him up as well.

Best idea though - keep it short - only a couple of minutes at most.

Good luck - you'll do fine.

Answer 4

I have known these people for xx years. Tell a small funny story about something funny they said or did.
Then, state that you could not think of a more perfect match, than these two people.
Ask people to raise their glasses and toast them for a long, happy healthy and prosperous life.

Answer 5

The best toast you can give your friend and his wife to have a bless life with one another and what God put together let no one or nothing tear them apart to be happy and live learn and grow old together.

Answer 6

Here is a short and nice one that gets to the point

Wedding Toast, to the Bride and Groom
Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married.

Answer 7

say
toast to the lukiest man to hav the luckiest woman as wife

or

vice versa

depending ur on girl's side or guy's side

sweet yet to th point

Answer 8

just tell a personal story on something everyone would enjoy about the couple.......
Like you knew they were perfect when this happened type thing.

Also you can google.com and find different websites for bestmen that offer different speech ideas.

Answer 9

Here's a copy of the one I wrote for my BFF's wedding 2 years ago (Names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent- LOL!):

I think I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say Thank You Bride & Groom for allowing us to share in your beautiful day. Bride, I suppose during these types of speeches, I’m supposed to recall some shameful anecdotes I’ve shared with you and tell everyone here about them, but I’m saving those for your kids so THEY can make fun of you.

Bride and I met at what we thought was a ‘real’ job, about 12 years ago, when we were making $6.00 an hour working in a doctor’s office while everyone else was making $4.50 doing some type of retail. We thought we had finally made it and life had begun for us. We were both working and trying to get through our little Community College gig—we were on the 5-year plan, so we were in no particular rush. Needless to say, we reaked general havoc on the patients…barely showing up after a weekend’s night of fun. Bride’s trusty ‘86 gray Nissan pick-up truck and my ’81 Toyota Corolla, never let us down. We had one blast after another.

I remember when Bride first broke the news to me about leaving L.A. to move to Santa Clara. It was totally on a whim. I think my exact words included an expletive, and of course I didn’t want her to leave, but she was dead set on coming up so I let her. She left and we kept in touch through cards and phone calls (we weren’t quite internet savvy yet) and I got to hear her about all of her crazy experiences and some of the strange roommates she shared living spaces with. Bride likes adventure I know, and moving up here was right up her alley. I knew that Bride had assimilated into the NorCal culture when she started using “hella” as the descriptive word of choice.

Bride is an amazing friend and above all else, a beautiful person. It’s no wonder that Groom fell in love with her from the beginning. As a friend, she’s the kind that makes you check yourself when all righteousness has left the room. She is loads of fun, considerate, caring and incredibly loyal. To me, she is family—the sister I never had. As a woman, she is beautiful inside and out (obviously)--she is matronly, responsible, kind, loving, strong, very level-headed and is going to make a wonderful wife.

Right around the summer of 2001, Bride met Groom. I distinctly remember a phone call. She was “hella” excited, telling me about this great guy that she had met at the gym, and that he had invited her over for dinner and wine. On one particular evening, she was actually talking to me from the back patio of their now home, and telling me that he was inside cooking pasta and they were both drinking wine and she was totally happy and sounded very much in love—although we never said the “L” word that early on, I could sense it in her voice. Why she was on the phone with ME that evening still concerns me but I know it was just to share the excitement with me and she would soon get back to the rest of her evening. She said that he was the nicest person she had ever met. I don’t know, but just by the sound of her voice that evening, I got the slightest hint that this “Groom" guy could be the one. Of course, I had my reservations…she was 300-some odd miles away, and I knew it would be months before I got around to meet him.

I finally came up to visit Bride and of course, to meet Groom (who at this point I’d only seen in pictures), and had an absolute fun-filled weekend. Of course, I got dragged into one of Groom's step classes, and I got coerced into doing some Karaoke at the Bamboo, but what’s a weekend with these two if it doesn’t include at least one of those two things. Groom welcomed me like family and we hit it off instantly. It was like we had known each other for years. It was obvious from that weekend, that these two were in love and that they would look forward to years of happiness.

Groom is an incredible person. He’s got artistic talent that no other person I know has—Martha Stewart’s got another thing to worry about. These two are meant for each other, I mean you can’t beat the mutual likeness for karaoke, working out, adventure, and the idea of love and family. I know Groom loves Bride immensely, as does she, and seeing them together is really a beautiful thing. Anyone who has spent time around both of them, know that love is in the air—you can feel it instantly.

I know as they begin their life together and eventually start a family, they will instill in it the love and nurturing that they instilled into their relationship. Bride will be an exemplary wife and mother and Groom will be an awesome father, husband and friend. I look forward to making memories with both of you. Congratulations and I love you both!


I had it printed on nice paper and framed it for her after. She loved it!