Engagement Toasts

Engagement toasts are a great way to pay tribute to a special couple. There are many creative ways to congratulate a couple through a toast. Learn more about engagement toasts and get tips on how to make a meaningful toast.

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The engagement toast is a longstanding tradition in which people convey congratulations and well wishes to a newly engaged couple in a public setting, such as a party, sealed with a sip of an alcoholic beverage such as champagne or wine.

Anyone can offer up an engagement toast. However, there is a toasting etiquette regarding who customarily offers up the first toasts. Here is a general guide of the people who offer toasts in order:

• Parent Toast: At one time, this role was usually reserved to first the father of the bride-to-be, followed by the father of the groom-to-be. Today both the mother and father of the future bride and groom can offer joint or separate toasts.
• Sibling Toast: The brothers and sisters of the couple toast next.
• Grandparent Toast: Grandparents may offer a toast. Some people have the grandparents toast before siblings.
• Close Relative Toast: Close relatives such as special aunts, uncles and cousins may offer toasts after the immediate family.
• Best Friends: Best friends of the couple can toast after the family. If the best man and maid of honor are already selected, they should toast before other close friends. However, at this early stage the wedding party is usually not yet officially chosen.
• Other Friends: Any friend can wish the couple well after the family and best friend complete their toasting.

All toasts for an engagement offer the newly engaged couple support and happiness for the future. The toast usually fit one of five different types of toasts. Types of engagement toasts include:

• General congratulations: The main message of this toast is a simple congratulations to the couple.
• Well wishes toast: The toast expresses a wish for future happiness and blessings.
• Poetic toast: The poetic toast contains a short poem or a line from a poem.
• Quotation toast: A short quote about love and marriage is also appropriate for a toast.
• Story toast: A short description or story about the couple falling in love and their compatibility is also suitable for a toast.

Here are some toasting ideas for an engagement:

• Wish the couple well with a short engagement poem that celebrates marriage
• Share a short story or anecdote that illustrates that the two people are soul mates
• Offer support to the couple for starting their new life together
• If you are a part of the immediate family of either the future bride or groom, welcome the fiancé to the family

Toasts should be short - no longer than two minutes. Stay complimentary. If you incorporate humor in the toast, make sure that it is in good taste and not potentially embarrassing. It is best not to mention anything that could be misconstrued as an insult.

Choose the toasting beverage carefully. Champagne or wine is customary but sparkling cider is a good substitute for a non-drinking group. A more casual get together can also use beer, wine coolers, punch or soda pop.

Try not to talk too fast or softly. Speak slowly and with sufficient volume for people in the back of the room to hear you.

The Internet has some helpful websites with toasting advice and ideas. The following websites have information for engagement toasts:

• A Toast to Your Wedding: The toast site has advice and ideas for engagement toasting.
• Free Wedding Toasts: The site has some free toasts for wedding and engagements.
• Wedding Toast Help: Wedding Toast Help provides free toast ideas suitable for weddings or engagement celebrations.
• Celebrations: The site features an article with helpful engagement toasting advice.

With a little planning, you can come up with a meaningful toast. Always speak from the heart. The couple will treasure your words always as a special engagement memory.

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