Weddingbee Blog

My brother has agreed to be our MC and I am so happy he said yes! I had been putting off asking him because he is SO busy and I didn’t want to add more to his already full plate. But I was also worried that if he said no, we would have to ask someone else and I wanted to make sure that we would be giving them as much time as possible to prepare.

When I finally asked my brother, his reaction was not what I expected at first (he looked like I had asked him to give me his first born child or something!). So when he said that he had to think about it, I thought for sure it was going to be a “no” answer. Then morning he e-mailed me and said that he would be honored to be our MC!

This was a very important part of our reception since we are only having 1 speech, a toast to the couple, done by our MC. It HAD to be the right person. Someone who knows us both well, who would be funny, and who would not be too sentimental, too embarrassing or too long! (I know - tall order, right?) My oldest brother is the best story teller that we know, he has such a fantastic sense of humour and has been there through our whole relationship. So as soon as we started talking about who we wanted to do that job, we both knew that he would be our first choice.

Now we just need to ask my other brother and one of FI’s brothers to do the Welcome to the Family speeches at the rehearsal dinner. We are asking them instead of our parents because we are already asking so much of our parents and we didn’t want them to be too emotional or worrying about anything more than they already are. That said, the last couple of weddings that I have been to have had brothers of the bride do the W2TF speech, and they were the most emotional of the bunch. Protective big brother stuff I guess…

Who’s MC’ing your wedding, and who did you ask to give speeches?