How to Personalize Your Wedding Emcee Jokes

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Personalize Your Wedding Emcee Jokes

Time and again I tell burgeoning young Wedding MCs that they need not attempt to be stand up comics. In fact, trying to be a one man or a one woman show for a few hours is a recipe for disaster. Now if you are, in fact, a stand up comic .... or just naturally hilarious, then go ahead and strut your stuff. For most of the rest of us, however, our goal should be to be humorous and entertaining.

One liners are the surest way to elicit painful groans from the guests. You've all been to weddings and know what I'm talking about. The jokes pulled from the internet when you search "Wedding Emcee Jokes" are often lame and overdone. Not only that, they have very little personal touch and often seem forced.

That's not to say that you shouldn't use Google to get you started. By all means, why reinvent the wheel? Many of the jokes and stories I now use have been found from internet searches. But the true gems are few and far between.

One of the tricks I like to use when preparing for an event is to look at the backgrounds of the bride and groom. For instance, what are their occupations and hobbies? I then do a Google search for jokes pertaining to that particular field or area.

For example, I recently had the pleasure of being a Wedding Master of Ceremonies for a friend's wedding where the bride was a geologist. In my preparations, I searched for geology jokes and found a few that were appropriate. With a little bit of rewording, I came up with the following:

Mike was extremely nervous when he was getting ready to propose Jane. When I asked him why, he said that it was because Jane is a Geologist. I was still very confused until it dawned on me .... Geologists can spot Cubic Zirconium a mile away.

On the plus side, marrying a Geologist means that the older Mike gets, the more interesting Jane will find him.

As long as he doesn't take her for granite.

Small jokes and anecdotes such as this are always crowd pleasers. Just find some generic jokes, stories or puns that are related to the interests of the bride or groom and insert their names where appropriate to make the story more personal. So what if it isn't entirely true? Everyone will know the story is tongue-in-cheek and have a great laugh.

Leave the common one liners about some arbitrary married couple to the others about to follow you ;)

To your success,

Scott

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