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Toastmaster: Introducing myself to the forum.

Guy Wade, 18 March, 2013 at 15:04 Posted on Planning 0 13

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Hello,

I'm new around here, so I thought I'd introduce myself and what I do.

I'm Guy, I work as a toastmaster in the South East. I've worked both weddings and civic occasions, but it's not how I get my full-time income. I also work as a magician, doing table magic at restaurants and banquets as well as at weddings. Currently I'm try to raise my profile as a toastmaster so I've created a website and registered as a supplier here.

The webiste address is in my signature - I'd appreciate any feedback you might have.

Do you have any experiences of toastmasters? Are you planing to have one at your wedding? Or did you have one? In my expeience people tend to split into two camps: the first says "What do we need one of them for?", the second says "We had one. Don't know what we would have done without him!".

If you take a look at the website, you'll see it's a bit bare at the moment. Because of that, and as a way of creating to some word-of-mouth advertising, I've decided to give my services away to three couples, in April, May and June this year. The recipients will my services completely free of charge for their wedding inluding pre-wedding meeting and full communication leading up to the big day. The only stipulations are that you must live in London or the South East and I'd like to have a few photos of me with the happy couple from the day (and it would be great if you would give me an honest review for my website some time afterwards).

Get in touch with me here, or through my website, if you might be interested.

Guy

Hello,
I'm new around here, so I thought I'd introduce myself and what I do.

I hope I can be an active member here on the forums and answer any questions you might have.

Guy

(I edited this post after it was pointed out that I might have been a little too self-promoting. My apologies if I offended anyone.)

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Latest activity by Guy Wade, 20 March, 2013 at 09:29

Beginner June 2013
Lauko · 18 March, 2013 at 15:19
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Hi Guy, i have sent you an email,
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Beginner May 2013
tayto · 18 March, 2013 at 16:22
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Hello & welcome! I'm not in need of a tostmaster but I just thought I'd pass on a comment about your website. On the services - > Weddings page, the first line of text wraps to the right of the image so it looks like this:

I'm not sure if this is intentionally done like this or if its an error? It may be my browser - I'm using IE 9 on Windows 7 so I do know sometimes the best written pages do not show correctly in IE so ignore me if it works fine on your own!
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Teal · 18 March, 2013 at 18:30
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Welcome to the hitched forum.

I didnt have a sperate toastmaster at our wedding. Our DJ doubled as one for a little more, so didnt feel a need to hire someone else.

My SIL had one at her wedding & he was great. The fact you can also double as a magician & entertain guests would be a real bonus.
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*Funky* · 18 March, 2013 at 18:48
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Hello and welcome to hitched ?
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Beginner June 2013
Lauko · 18 March, 2013 at 18:52
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I didnt have any issues when i viewed it :-)
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Andy_Magicman · 18 March, 2013 at 20:05
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Hi Guy,

Welcome to the forum. Your website displayed fine for me.
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Mark Sapsford M.C · 18 March, 2013 at 21:49
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Welcome to the World of Hitched Guy
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Kjay · 18 March, 2013 at 21:55
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Welcome to Hitched!
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Guy Wade · 18 March, 2013 at 23:22
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Thanks to everyone for the kind welcomes. I think I've fixed the way that page page displays on certain browsers: it does seem to be an IE thing.

Cheers!
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DaffodilWaves · 18 March, 2013 at 23:23
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Beginner June 2013
Purple*Sparkles · 19 March, 2013 at 14:22
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Hi Guy.

I have booked a toastmaster. My wedding is in June. I worry about everyone else all the time and didn't want to be worrying about people knowing where they are going and what they are doing. This was my main reason for booking one. My Wedding venue planner said I didn't need one as she would do it, but I like that fact you are clearly defined (by uniform) as the person to ask if someone want to know anything about the wedding. My cousin got married in a hotel and the duty manager did the announcing etc and he didn't even pronounce her surname correct.

My toatmaster is very personalble which is a must for the job. I booked him at a wedding fair after researching him, I then went to another massive wedding fair at least 4 months later and he remembered me and mine and my partners name and my wedding date. I was impressed!

I have little jobs for him to do too, like giving out activity packs to children just prior to speeches etc.

J x
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Guy Wade · 19 March, 2013 at 15:15
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My cousin got married in a hotel and the duty manager did the announcing etc and he didn't even pronounce her surname correct.

That's almost unforgivable. I officiated at a banquet last Friday where I had to introduce 8 couples - all of them Right Worshipful this or Lord Mayor that - I lined them all up in an anteroom before we started and went through every title and pronunciation. My list had been prepared by someone else and was almost perfect but there were still people who preferred to be Ms rather than Miss or whose name was pronounced with the stress in the first rather than the second syllable.

I've always said I'm helping the hosts of the party, or the wedding couple to put on a show and spending five minutes in rehearsal making sure you've got your lines right is basic stuff.
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Peter · 20 March, 2013 at 01:02
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Hi Guy...welcome to the madhouse of hitched..... re the website, the post about viewing problems"may" be down to the members screen set up///ctrl and mouse scroll might have corrected the sizing problem.......

Can I also suggest www.browsershots.org This will check your website against dozens of possible browsers...

Peter
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