Your best friends are getting married. They ask you to be the best man/maid of honor. Yay! You’d be thrilled. And then they say, “Would you give a toast at the wedding?” Uh oh! Now, what? What do you do? What do you say? How do you do it so you don’t get so flustered you fall into the cake?
This episode is here to help.
Have you ever given a toast? How did it go? I’d love to hear about it.
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