How to Be a Toastmaster

George: Hello sir I’m Hi, I’m George. Tony Rance: How are you? George: I’m very well. Wow. Tony Rance: Well I tell you what toastmaster—we’re going to try and teach you to be a toastmaster today for our weddings so. George: For a real life wedding. Tony Rance: Well real life wedding that’s what you have to do. Yeah. Now the key points of what you’re doing today are one bringing it into the receiving line. Two, bringing the bride and bride women to the room. Three, taking them over and cutting the cake. Four, making an answers some from the top table and five retiring from the room. When we’re doing the receiving line the first thing we’ve got to do is make sure we’ve got the line right. George: Right. Tony Rance: Because if you don’t have the line right — George: The older people— Tony Rance: That’s correct. George: Right. Tony Rance: Now the first person should be the person who’s invited them to the wedding so if the invitation says Mr. and Mrs. David Jones, you make sure that Mrs. David Jones is the first person you— Ladies and gentlemen would you please greet the bride and the bridegroom, Mr. and Mrs. David Jones. This maybe the first time they’ve actually been called back because up until then — George: Of course because they just actually get married so you’re saying it for the first time. So the—is really exciting. The room is going to be exciting. The way you said it then just even just that one woman is like really excited and I want to start clapping— Tony Rance: Ladies and gentlemen we’re now going to cut this rub of marvelous cake so we will ask the bride and the bridegroom to join us by the cake and we will ask you to bring your cameras and make sure you get a nice picture. George: Ladies and gentlemen we are about to invite the bride and groom over to the cake to cut the cake and we invite you over with your cameras to take some photographs. Ladies and gentlemen three, two, one, cut the cake smile at the camera. Tony Rance: Now, I got pick around there, what am I are asking and can I ask you to do the first thing you going to do. George: I am going to get their attention and I’m going to mean business and so I said let—so I say something I’m going to do it first, okay. Ladies and gentlemen please be seated. Tony Rance: Good. We’re getting there. Well done. George: Ladies and gentlemen please be standing. It is time for the bride and bridegroom to retire from the room and you will follow. Tony Rance: Excellent. George: And it was bad. Tony Rance: Ladies and gentlemen I would like to present George to you. George has been trained to be a toastmaster today and we want to see what experts think of his efforts and whether we would employ him here to complete that. Okay George is now over to you and I want you to show the ladies and gentlemen what you can do and what you’ve learned today. George: Be kind. Ladies and gentlemen our bride and bridegroom are now going to retire from the groom so we’d ask you to stand and follow us. Tony Rance: Well done. George: Okay it’s a bit round of wrong way but we’ve got a wrong way. Tony Rance: That’s just a matter of something but that was good. So you did very well then but what do this people think? Geroge: So I was in the— would you employ me as a toastmaster? Female: Absolutely, your voice is crystal clear and you got a lovely smile. George: Oh well that’s good news. Female: So start up a bit a bit bad then you kind of improved. Female: Your memory improved as you went along. George: Yeah I think it was ever just looking at me like this and it was like being an apprentice and its pretty much fine but now I’m already smiling so I can be that bad.