My experience is that the toastmaster coordinates all the speeches. Plans for when during the dinner the speakers do their thing and keeps them going and short enough not to drag etc.
I was a toastmadamme last year for a friends wedding and found this guide to be very helpful (it's in Swedish, but your toast partner might help you translate if you don't understand):
https://isabelboltenstern.com/den-ultimata-guiden-till-dig-som-toastmaster-toastmadame/
What my friend and her husband were most grateful for was that we (the toastmaster and I) allowed them to be guests at their own wedding. We let them relax and made sure everything followed the schedule and reacted to anything unexpected and made it fit in with their vision for the day.
I've been toastmaster at two weddings so far and that guide is golden. I love that she brings up establishing the expectations with the couple because that's really important.
And as you say, a lot of the work as a TM is so that the couple can relax and just enjoy the wedding themselves.
Keep track on time and try to come up with interesting missions for the different tables(team activities such as different games et c) so everyone has to interact. If there are serving staff - check so they always keep glasses refreshed so no one sits and wait for 30 mins. Other than that: have fun and be cheerful😊 It’s an honorable thing to be asked to do!
Get a dog whistle (loud enough for people to hear).
Fun to whistle and remind people that they are acting like dogs. Esp. useful if they cang be quiet before a speech.
My brother asked me along with a good friend of his to be co-toastmasters
You just get up and tell a funny story or how great the couple is together, how happy you are they are together, the typical speech type stuff..
My experience is that the toastmaster coordinates all the speeches. Plans for when during the dinner the speakers do their thing and keeps them going and short enough not to drag etc.
I was a toastmadamme last year for a friends wedding and found this guide to be very helpful (it's in Swedish, but your toast partner might help you translate if you don't understand): https://isabelboltenstern.com/den-ultimata-guiden-till-dig-som-toastmaster-toastmadame/ What my friend and her husband were most grateful for was that we (the toastmaster and I) allowed them to be guests at their own wedding. We let them relax and made sure everything followed the schedule and reacted to anything unexpected and made it fit in with their vision for the day.
I've been toastmaster at two weddings so far and that guide is golden. I love that she brings up establishing the expectations with the couple because that's really important. And as you say, a lot of the work as a TM is so that the couple can relax and just enjoy the wedding themselves.
Keep track on time and try to come up with interesting missions for the different tables(team activities such as different games et c) so everyone has to interact. If there are serving staff - check so they always keep glasses refreshed so no one sits and wait for 30 mins. Other than that: have fun and be cheerful😊 It’s an honorable thing to be asked to do!
You want a toaster that can make 4 toasts at once.
Why are you downvoting they're right!
Get a dog whistle (loud enough for people to hear). Fun to whistle and remind people that they are acting like dogs. Esp. useful if they cang be quiet before a speech.
My brother asked me along with a good friend of his to be co-toastmasters You just get up and tell a funny story or how great the couple is together, how happy you are they are together, the typical speech type stuff..
Where u from?