Fun Wedding Ceremony Ideas

[SenatorShriv]

My friends are getting married next month in Connecticut and recently asked me to perform the ceremony for them. (They will be getting legally married in a courthouse before the ceremony.) At first I was really pumped because it is a huge honor, I don't mind public speaking and I figured that we could have some fun with it.

 

Now I'm freaking out. I haven't been to many weddings and don't really have any great ideas about what to do. Generally I think I'm supposed to talk about "love" and interweave a story or two about them, but I'm feeling a lot of pressure to do my speech (think the sermon of a typical wedding) in a fun and original way. I was thinking about trying to use mostly the lyrics of songs everyone would know, but now I'm afraid that might be really lame.

 

Does anyone have any ideas about what I should say or fun things I can have them do during the ceremony?

[blatzlight]

I have no idea but I will let you know next as I am going to a wedding in Vegas this weekend where my friend is marrying two other friends. Only difference is he purchased his ministers license off of the Internet and he will be doing the real ceremony. I guess in Nevada he can now legally perform the ceremony. But, if I was to give advice, go with the KISS method. Keep It Simple Stupid. Don't go overboard and error on the side of being too short. Everyone hates long winded tangents.

[homer]

Don't use lines from a song - or if you do, make sure it's not some lame group like Nickelback. If you want to impress people, try and parallel their lives to a book. You could use a movie, but people will think you're smarter if you reference a novel or story. I heard one best man describe his relationship to the groom like the two main guys in Don Quijote.....it was a tear jerker speech.

[viking188]

Senator this probably won't help you; but Homers story reminded me of a wedding I went to. The Best Man got up to make his toast; and used the time to "come out of the closet". He went on about how he could not ever get married because of the unjustice of the laws, how love was love , and on and on. I thought it was real funny. However, the Bride, and her family wer not at all impressedhttp://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif. After his "toast" he got a long private lecture from the Bride and her mother......and left the reception.

 

Like I said, I found it very entertaining, but maybe you had to be there.

[SenatorShriv]

I wasn't going to use lyrics from a specific song (and I'm especially gagging at the thought of Nickleback lyrics.) I was considering splicing in a bunch of random lines from a plethora of famous songs that everyone would recognize into the overall speech.

[mothershipconnection]

go with the KISS method. Keep It Simple Stupid. Don't go overboard and error on the side of being too short

 

You had me locked on through the word "method". I thought you were talking about the groom being Paul Stanley and the bride being painted like Peter Criss. That'd be an awesome wedding. If anyone wanted to be Gene, I wouldn't perform the wedding, because that's them being arrogant and showing that they aim to control the marriage.