What are we communicating?

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Toast
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Toast

• Never drink a toast or stand, when it's being
  offered to you.
• You should always stand up and respond to the
  toast, even if this means just thanking the host
  for the gesture.

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• Never should a toast be offered to the guest of
  honor until the host has had the opportunity to
  do so.
• If it appears that the host has no intention of
  offering a toast, it would be polite to quietly
  request the host's indulgence to do so yourself.

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• You should always stand when offering a toast
  unless it is a small informal group.
• Standing can help you to get the attention of the
  group and quiet them down.
• It is best not to signal for quiet by rapping on
  a glass. You could easily end up with nothing to
  toast with.

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• It is not a good idea to push someone to make a
  toast who would otherwise prefer not to. You
  might hear a toast that you would just as soon
  not hear.

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• Never refuse to participate in a toast. It is
  more polite and perfectly acceptable, to
  participate with a non-alcoholic beverage or even
  an empty glass than not at all.

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Practice

• The person giving the toast typically memorizes
  the toast. The following quotations can serve as
  public speaking practice.

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• AristotleLove is composed of a single soul
  inhabiting two bodies.

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• I see the love you both have in each other's eyes
  and as your love grows for one another, may you
  look back on this day and know this is when you
  loved each other the least.

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• Remember the love you feel today. Look back on it
  daily and measure how much it has grown.

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• May the Best of Your Yesterdays Be the Worst of
  Your Tomorrows

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• My Greatest wish for the two of you is that
  through the years your love for each other will
  so deepen and grow, that years from now you will
  look back on this day, your wedding day, as the
  day you loved each other the least.

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• Here's to the groom, a man who keeps his head
  though he loses his heart.

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• To the lamp of love - may it burn brightest in
  the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds
  of trial.

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• Daniel Monroe TuttleLove is like a mountain,
  hard to climb, but once you get to the top the
  view is beautiful.

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• Will MossLove is not blind -- It sees more and
  not less, but because it sees more it is willing
  to see less.

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• AnonymousLove is like the sun coming out of the
  clouds and warming your soul.

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• Bill WilsonTo the world you may be one person,
  but to one person you may be the world.

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• SophoclesOne word frees us of all the weight and
  pain of life that word is love.

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• May the road rise to meet you.May the wind be
  always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon
  your face.And rains fall soft upon your
  fields.And until we meet again,May God hold you
  in the hollow of His hand.

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• May you live all the years of your life.
  Jonathan Swift

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• May you live as long as you wantAnd may you
  never want as long as you live. Unknown

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• May friendship, like wine, improve as time
  advances,And may we always have old wine, old
  friends, and young cares. Unknown

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• To my friendsFriends we are today,And friends
  we'll always be For I am wise to you,And you
  can see through me. Unknown

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• May bad fortune follow you all your daysAnd
  never catch up with you. Unknown

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• May you never lie, cheat or drink. But if you
  must lie, lie with each other. And if you must
  cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink
  with us for we all love you and wish you both the
  love and happiness of which you deserve.

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• "Let us toast the health of the bride, let us
  toast the health of the groom, let us toast the
  priest who tied. And I'd personally like to toast
  every guest in the room."

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• May you swear, steal, and lie.Swear by all
  that's good and true. Steal away your cares and
  sorrows. And lie in the arms of the one you
  love.

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• May the love you express to each other today,
  always be the first thoughts during any trying
  times in the future.

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