My groom wedding toast planning fell at the absolute last minute – almost an afterthought.  I knew I needed to do it, but I didn’t want to mess with it because of fear of speaking in public.

Anyway, so I’m a week away from getting married and I’ve got this speech looming over my head – I start to write down some thoughts.  Unfortunately, I’m not very brilliant and I’ve not a creative bone in my body – NONE.  So, am I stressed out?  YES.

I started just jotting down everything that came to me – but I had no master plan, so I didn’t know which ideas were worthy and which were not.  As far as tone goes, should it be funny, should it be serious, should it be somewhere in between?  I’d gone to weddings before, but I’d never really paid attention *that* closely to the groom wedding toast.

So after compiling and wading through mountains of notes about various events – long forgotten memories, events about our dating relationship, I finally came up with my final draft – 1 day before the wedding!  At the wedding all went fine – I made it through – some laughs were heard, some tears where shed – it all worked out okay.

So guys, do yourselves a favor, for such an important moment – Don’t put off the planning of this process.  It does take good planning, but to keep your stress levels in check, start much earlier that a week before the wedding.