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How to Practice your Wedding Speech
There are advantages and disadvantages for speakers who practice. Most speakers just flip through their slides or notes, read silently to themselves, decide to rely on the text or slides and don’t bother practising out loud. Or people will “practice” while sitting at their desks, even when they’re going to be standing up and moving […]
Read MoreThe Art of Speaking with a Podium / Lectern…
(October 2019) Podiums / lecterns can help or hamper a speaker. Some people sometimes hide behind them. Some grasp on to the sides for dear life. Having said all of that, a podium/lectern is a great speaking medium if you are delivering a speech or making a presentation. Halina Saint James shares 10 tips on […]
Read More6 Essential Tips for Crafting an Honest and Unforgettable Wedding Speech
Whether you are a Bride, Groom, Bestman, Father of the Bride, Father of the Groom, the time will come when you are faced with writing and delivering a wedding speech (Read our blog on ‘7 Powerful Tips for Delivering your Wedding Speech‘) that will probably be the most important speech you will deliver in your […]
Read MoreHow to make sure that you deliver a great speech at a wedding…?
Large weddings are still as popular as ever with upwards of 200-300 guests still being invited by the Bride & Groom, with every wedding hotel fighting for the business, and being transformed into paradises for the happy couple and their wedding guests. There goes with the above the pressure on wedding speakers to write and […]
Read MoreWhen should the great wedding speech be delivered…?
How weddings have changed over the decades! From a handful to 400-500 invited guests; one-two to six-eight bridal party members; a simple wedding car to expensive and large wedding cars; three course meals to six course meals; one to three live bands; simple attire to colorful and flamboyant dresses, suits and attire and off-the-cuff to […]
Read MoreDo your audience like listening to your wedding speech?
There are very few weddings that do not have some time dedicated to people at the top table to speak about or on behalf of the Bride & Groom. Some do this before the meal, some do it during the meal (between the courses) and most do it after the meal (the correct time to […]
Read MoreTo Use Notes or Not to Use Notes…
We all envy the speaker who can stand up and deliver a speech ‘off the cuff’! How do they / can they do it? I wish I could do that! Yes, we all do, but chances are that they have been preparing the speech for some time beforehand and know what they wanted to say, […]
Read MoreA long speech or a short speech…?
You have many times, some times or will some time soon hear a wedding speech from a Bestman, Father of the Bride / Groom, Bride and / or Groom. It will be either a long speech or short speech. There is never a medium length speech and you will never hear anyone say that the […]
Read MoreThe Three Things That People Will Remember About Your Wedding…
Your wedding is over. The planning, the expense and attention to detail have hopefully paid off and your guests have had a memorable and unforgettable experience all for the right reasons. If you were to do an evaluation analysis on your wedding, like they do after a training course, what would be the responses? (There’s […]
Read MorePreparation is key…
For anything we do in life, preparation is key. When we sit down to carry out a task, we give ourselves enough time to plan it, do it and then review it to make sure it is done as well as it possibly can be. Right? Well, in the ideal world with time on our […]
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