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| Speeches
- Suggested Speech Games |
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One of the best we know is the 'key' game. Bewildered? Let us explain:
- Pass a note around the female guests or speak to them beforehand.
You can even hang around the ladies' toilets and catch them as
they come out - but try not to look too obvious or someone might
twig - or talk!
- During the speech, ask for any of the groom's ex-girlfriends
to return his house/flat keys and . . . you've guessed it, all
the female guests from 89-year old Aunt Flo to little Alice, the
3-year old flower girl, will come up to the well-placed bowl (arrange
for an empty bowl to be placed on a side table where everyone
can see it) and put their keys in it. Guaranteed to bring the
house down!
- Can also be adapted for a Father of the Bride speech asking
all those who stayed over at the family home over the years to
return the spare keys. This time, ask all the male guests to stand
up.
Some people go to the trouble of making a book that commemorates key
moments in the bride or groom's life. Include things like:
- A sample of their handwriting at primary school (ask his parents
for help if you don't have anything going that far back).
- The worst photos imaginable.
- Details of an early date with the groom or bride
- Any newspaper cuttings from their life including childhood sporting
achievements or local theatre appearances.
- It will take time but our brides have told us how much the gesture
was appreciated and kept the entire wedding party entertained
for ages - long after your hard written speeches were forgotten!
- You may prefer to show a cine film or blow up old photographs
instead.
A quick way of adding a little audience anticipation:
- Put a note on each table asking guests to come up with a short
poem or couple of lines about the bride and groom.
- Read out the best ones being read out during the speech or,
if you make it clear that they must not be offensive, ask each
table to read their best efforts out in turn.
- You may like to play safe and make up the first two lines of
a limerick yourself then ask them to finish it off with the last
two lines. For example:
There was a young/old woman from [place where lives/born/works]
Who fell in love with a [name career] . . .
We stood up to toast the couple
When the bride got up to say: . . .
The vicar/registrar/photographer looked at the bride/groom
And scratched his/her nose in disgust
There was a young man from [Uni/place where works/where born/where
lives]
Who decided he wanted to marry . . .
One for the more artistic and least self-conscious!
- The bride and groom compile a list of words that describe each
guest on a table.
- These lists are placed under the table centres.
- Each table then has to compose a poem or song using all of these
words and then stand up and perform it.
- Compile a list of questions about the bride and groom or about
the wedding itself.
- Ask each table to nominate a player.
- Ask each player a question in turn, with wrong answers eliminating
that player.
- As with the TV version, players have the option to Phone A Friend
(but say that they can only ask the mums or dads for help), Ask
The Audience (fellow guests on their table) and 50/50.
- The player who lasts the longest wins the prize. Each time the
questions get harder, you can either give the losing players a
forfeit or the winning ones, sweets.
- Before the speeches start, have the ushers tour the reception
asking for guests to bet on the total length of the speeches.
- Write down each person and their predictions.
- Charge 10p - £1 a go.
- Make sure your usher has a stopwatch running and can take verbal
abuse from the losers!
- The person closest to the exact time wins the total amount,
or you could use this as a way of raising money for charity or
even starting a slush fund for the bride and groom.
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