Toasting and the Best Man
Filed under: Etiquette, Receptions, Grooms
The best man is primarily a behind-the-scenes go-to guy. He sees to the rings, the passes information between groom and ushers, he arranges the car. However, he is also traditionally the MC at the reception, and it is during the toasting that he is most public. It is the best man who proposes the first toast, and orchestrates the others. In some weddings, toasting is a simple affair of two or three short tributes, but in others, it can go on for a while, with everybody and their uncle vying for a chance to raise their glass to someone or other. The best man choreographs this. More challenging, he must move along the long, boring toast-ers (and are possibly too drunk to notice the yawns and glazed expressions).
Just because he's your best man doesn't mean this role will be easy for him. If your best man is a quiet type, it's quite all right to choose a more outgoing friend to be MC. Your best man will probably thank you!
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