Wedding MC

Tonight I had the absolute privelege of being the MC for a good friend's wedding reception. Not having done any MCing before, I was rather stressed out. Especially coz I wasn't really prepared. I didn't have my script written out, nor any toast, no jokes, nothing. All I had was the program and a set of wedding /marriage quotes that I had downloaded. I totally felt that I didn't have enough material to last the whole 45 mins. The groom gave me some good advice. "It takes only 2 seconds, after that it will be plain sailing."

The program was supposed to start at 1915. Dinner to commence at 2000. Taking into account IST (Indian Standard Time), we started on time at 1945ish. Since we were already late, I didn't have time to do any talking. Each time all I did was give a quote, share a piece of information about the bride and groom and the invite the next speaker.

After the B&G finished their speech, I held them back for a sabo session. Basically we asked them a set of questions and wanted to know if their answers matched. If they didn't, he had to lose something he was wearing. It was so terrible that he only got 4 out of 14 questions wrong!

At the end of the day, everybody was like "Fantastic job, man!", "Well done!"

Self revelation point - I always want to talk too much!

PS - the groom was wrong! It took 5 seconds !