Speeches and toasts at a casual wedding

[Christinamaria22]

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Originally Posted by Gail I have been stresing about that also. We are having private recep at resort around 40 people. Ipod. So how do I organize...announce dance...cake...we have mic. NO MC

Well sweetie PLEASE figure it out and let me know LOL... I knwo I keep going back and forth i cant figure it iout and feel like its goin to be so weird... what should we do? Anyone do the same thing or something similar how did you work it out?

[Christinamaria22]

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Originally Posted by Gail I have been stresing about that also. We are having private recep at resort around 40 people. Ipod. So how do I organize...announce dance...cake...we have mic. NO MC

Well sweetie PLEASE figure it out and let me know LOL... I knwo I keep going back and forth i cant figure it iout and feel like its goin to be so weird... what should we do? Anyone do the same thing or something similar how did you work it out?

[binzer]

My future MiL and FiL were just in town, and I feel a bit better about the situation now. They said that they plan to make toasts no matter what, and they imagine that quite a few other family members will too. It's an intimate setting, and a lot of my guests are a bit...sappy, so I think people will feel comfortable to talk if they want to. We're not going to worry about asking anyone specific, especially because we know that some of the people who would traditionally make a speech wouldn't really be comfortable doing it (such as the BM).

 

The only person I'm going to talk to is my dad. I'm going to ask him to welcome everyone to the reception (which will hopefully somewhat open the floor and make everyone else more comfortable).

 

I'm not going to use a mic or anything. I don't think managing to be heard by 20 people is very difficult, and I find that microphones always make people more nervous!

 

Anyways...that's my current game plan, but I'll let you know if anything changes!