Prepare your wedding speech well in advance, and be sure that the speech is memorized and can be recited passionately.

You're standing in front of the crowd, and it's your day to shine, you look up, and all the sets of eyes are on you, waiting, expecting you to spew words of wisdom. It's too much...you freeze, and your mind goes blank, and all the carefully crafted phrases you planned to say flew out of your head. Uh oh.

That is a situation most of us have been in-and most certainly a situation we want to avoid. Giving a speech can be daunting, so when it comes to wedding speeches, the...