Lyons Leadership

My brother just asked me to be his best man at his wedding.  Now how could I turn that up?  Seriously, it only took me a split second to say yes.  I have never been a best man before, so I had to ask what my responsibilities were.  Almost everything was a no-brainer until we got to the part about a speech.  Specifically, I was to make a wedding speech.

Now those of you out there who know me, I do quite enjoy speaking in public.  In fact, I try to do some public speaking at least once a month – either by doing a presentation of some sort, or attending a local Toastmasters event.

Thing is, the speaking part of the speech didn’t really bother me.  What my problem was is I had no idea how wedding toasts were organized – I have never made one before.

I found a site online about wedding toasts and speeches and downloaded some sample toasts.  I figured that if I had some outlines, I could have a better idea about the structure of a toast and write it from there.

At this point I have it mostly fleshed out – but it just needs some tweaking.  I do have a couple of months to write it yet, but I like to start on things early.