Everything is at stake at a wedding toast.

What people are worried about is that they 're going to get up and make a fool of themselves.

There are a lot of " dos " and there's a lot of " don'ts ".

Wedding toasts can go really, really bad.

It's a lot to get right, and it's a lot to get wrong.

But a great toast ; that's special and that's what your guests are not going to forget.

There comes a time in everyone 's life when they meet their one true love, that moment came for George 25 years ago when he met me.

Originally the idea of a toast was two guys, big dudes probably, with chalices, clanking their pewter goblets together

in the hopes that a little bit of your liquid would go into mine, and my liquid would go into yours,

so that I could make sure that you were n't trying to poison me.

And that's a toast.

The wedding toast, it's a time-honored tradition.

It's totally expected that a toast will be given at the wedding reception and that it be meaningful

and really encompass who the couple is. - Cheers!

The wedding toast is an art form.

It's the ability to connect with a large group of people and to make it seem like I 'm talking right to you.

You 've been elected as a representative of these two people and if you nail it,

they seem more intelligent, they seem better looking, they seem more popular.

Sometimes we don't want to see people succeed when they give their toast.

" They didn't ask me to give a toast, who's this jerk that they did ask to give a toast to."

For the next forty years people are going to look back at that speech and be like, " You know what, that guy is cool."

Or, you 're going to start off and be like, " That guy 's kind of a loser."

Be yourself.

If the couple chose you, they know exactly the type of person you are.

I'm a builder.

I like to measure things.

You can't measure the power in this room.

Just share your heart and let it flow.

To a great night to two great people.

Congratulations and I love you both.

Love you both.