How To Be A Hit As The Wedding MC
When a relative or a close friend asks you to be their wedding mc this is most definitely an honor but it also places considerable responsibility on your shoulders. The success of the festivities very much depends on you.
3 Tips for Success
1. Clarify The Wedding MC Role
The emcee is at the helm for ensuring the various events planned for the reception happen in an orderly manner and according to the agreed schedule.
The duties of a mc are not set in stone. It very much depends on the type of reception and the role the bride and groom want you to play. You must get together with the couple and agree, in as much detail as possible, the duties you will undertake.
2. Put Together A Running Sheet
Planning is all-important if you are to make a success of your role. The only way you can keep the nerves under control is to know exactly what happens when and where and who's involved.
You need to assemble a running sheet that shows, minute by minute, what is to happen when, where and with whom.
And you have to liase with all the leading contributors to ensure they know what they have to do and when. For instance, do all those making a speech know how long they have to speak for?
You really do need to put a lot of time and effort to make the role of wedding emcee seem easy and natural.
3. Don't Try To Be The 'Star' Turn
Let's be very clear. You are not part of the reception entertainment. You may organize some audience participation games as a means of helping the guests mix and, yes, you can tell a light hearted joke when introducing a particular ceremony. However, you are not a stand up comic or a 'star' turn.
A successful mc is unassuming letting the limelight clearly fall on the bridal couple.
One Final Tip - Do you want to:-
The emcee is at the helm for ensuring the various events planned for the reception happen in an orderly manner and according to the agreed schedule.
The duties of a mc are not set in stone. It very much depends on the type of reception and the role the bride and groom want you to play. You must get together with the couple and agree, in as much detail as possible, the duties you will undertake.
2. Put Together A Running Sheet
Planning is all-important if you are to make a success of your role. The only way you can keep the nerves under control is to know exactly what happens when and where and who's involved.
You need to assemble a running sheet that shows, minute by minute, what is to happen when, where and with whom.
And you have to liase with all the leading contributors to ensure they know what they have to do and when. For instance, do all those making a speech know how long they have to speak for?
You really do need to put a lot of time and effort to make the role of wedding emcee seem easy and natural.
3. Don't Try To Be The 'Star' Turn
Let's be very clear. You are not part of the reception entertainment. You may organize some audience participation games as a means of helping the guests mix and, yes, you can tell a light hearted joke when introducing a particular ceremony. However, you are not a stand up comic or a 'star' turn.
A successful mc is unassuming letting the limelight clearly fall on the bridal couple.
One Final Tip - Do you want to:-
- Learn wedding mc jokes and one liners that are sure to amuse, not offend, the guests.
- Plan correctly for your wedding emcee role.
- Be organized with templates covering all the duties of a wedding master of ceremonies.
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