The Wedding MC: A Complete Guide to Success for the Master of Ceremonies

by Tom Haibeck

The Wedding A Complete Guide to Success for the Master of Ceremonies offers a wealth of tips and down-to-earth advice for anyone asked to make a toast or speech at a wedding. Topics covered tips on preparing a presentation to win over your audience; advice on how to deal with stage-fright and nervousness; suggestions on humour -- how to keep it clean but funny; ways to increase your presentation power; how to prepare an effective agenda for the wedding reception; tips on toasting; and a reference section on toasts, jokes and wedding etiquette.

Paperback

Published December 1, 1998

Reviews

[Rebecca Rosenblum · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is some useful information in this book, but it could've been much much shorter. Aside from laying out the standard order of toasts and speeches at a wedding reception and some very very basic advice for those who have never spoken publicly before (or seen anyone else do so), Haibeck mainly seeks to scare the novice MC (or bride!) that without a military-level precision organization to the reception it will descend into drunken grotesqueries. I've seen a lot of this sort of wedding advice, which implies that these people you've invited to share your special day are rude, greedy, and insensitive to the hosts' feelings.If you are not inviting jerks and strangers to your wedding, you don't need to be so worried about that stuff.

Oh, and the long section of jokes at the back are mainly fifties-style sexism of the "a married man opens his wallet and shuts his mouth" variety.

[Bomina · Rating 2 out of 5]

this was given to me after a friend asked me to MC her wedding. Instead of making me feel more prepared, it stressed me out! Despite what Tom Haibeck says, the MC isn't going to make or break the wedding.