I'm Going To Be Maid Of Honor!!!

I'll hold her flowers, i'll straighten her veil, i'll cater to her every whim. Ahhh . . . the joy of being the maid of honor....

ummmmm...

Lemme tell you ladies.. The wedding is less then 2 weeks away and I am the only one without a dress!!!! It is the type of wedding where the bridesmaids wear romotley the same colored dress, and they arnt identical.. I am seriously LOST...

Anywho, the scary thing is that the dress issue is least of my concern...considering I just found out I have to give a speech!!!!!!
In front of like 200 people, none the less!!!!!!
I am very bad at talking in front of large groups... wow...

what am I going to do?? SAY>???


LADIES!!! Common, I need some serious H-E-L-P here!!!

****STRESS****

PS) The bride is my blood cousin, My mom raised her.. so she is pretty well my sister at heart...

 

Maybe start with a poem, that breaks the ice, and gives confidence, because it's nothing you wrote, you can just read it. find one, that fits to your cousin.


Then, you can sort of explain the poem to the people, in form of a speech. Use anekdotes, things that make her special.

I dunno, I've never done such a thing...but this is probably the way I'd start it.

 

Well, congrats. I've never been a Maid of Honor. Most of my friends have had non traditional weddings, or just skipped the entire Traditional stuff and I had my kids on the young side, and wouldn't leave them all day, and you can't nurse in most maid dresses. (OK I stood up in my Mom's second wedding, but I don't think that counts.)

You could just say what you remember about your freind, and the good luck and wishes you have for her and her man, ect. (Just no embarrassing stories, I've been to weddings where the MOH or the Best Man got up and told really embarressing stories "I'll never forget those chicks/guys we picked up in Wisconsin that summer and (name of bride or groom) was so drunk she forgot about it the next day......" Not wedding material! ) We were at my cousin's wedding last year, and they did this thing where the MOH asked all the men who had keys to the Bride's apartment to bring them up. 10 guys stood up and, really contrived, put the keys on the table. My cousin was appauled (of COURSE none of these dudes actually had keys to her apartment) and I thought her mom was going to die! This kind of stuff sounds funny when the wedding party is sitting around drunk after the rehersal dinner, but isn't fun for anyone at the actual wedding.

IMO, I really hate when people try to be TOO funny. It seems written and contrived. Just wish them luck ect. I guess.

Have a good time at the wedding. Just out of curiosity, what are you going to get them? I always want to know, cuz my Bear and I got some really nice things for our wedding. (But no food processer, , but that was almost 20 years ago, and they were expensive.)

 

I'd say sharing a story of you two as kids is probably a good route. That's what I'm gonna do for my cousins wedding next summer (I'm her MoH).... stories about people as kids are usually pretty funny and very cute, especially if you have any silly vacation type of stories. Nothing declasse like Maggie mentioned But something with a little humour in it does keep peoples interest a little better

 

they already have two babies, one is almost 2 years old.. so i need to get them something that isnt breakable.. I am leaning toward a garden table, seated for two..
something like this..

 

Its their special day, so you don't really need to worry about the speech. Just talk about how you feel about the bride and grooms relationship. Say its beautiful, you wish them the best and hope they are happy, how seeing them makes you happy ect.. ect...

 

For a second, I thought the title was "I'm going to be a maid of HORROR!"

Haha, must show what kind of life I'm living....

Namaste
Francine

 

Oh well, on second thought, I just read your post...I guess I was right anyway...

HA!

 

Haha, good luck with the dress hon. God it's stressful isn't it? I was a maid of honor in my best friend's wedding a few years ago. As far as the speech, definitely write something out for yourself. I'd completely neglected to because I'd forgotten it was expected of me, so that, plus my shyness, added up to one really bad speech. There were some books I saw in Barnes and Noble when I was looking at stuff for my own wedding, that had speeches in them. You could take a look at something like that, not to copy, but to get some ideas to help you with your own.

Good luck and have fun sharing such a special day with your cuz