Toasts and Tributes Revised and Expanded: A Gentleman's Guide to Personal Correspondence and the Noble Tradition of the Toast (The GentleManners Series)

Toasts and Tributes helps men master these important skills with examples of more than 40 different toasts and 40 different notes. Includes examples of what to say and, perhaps more important, examples of what not to say. Perhaps he's been asked to say a few words at his college roommate's engagement party. Maybe he's at a family cookout, toasting his sister's recent law school graduation. Have his parents reached a milestone anniversary that deserves a son's perspective? Is his professional mentor retiring after decades as a leader in his field? Throughout his adult life, a man encounters those occasions that depend on his ability to distill the emotions of the moment into a toast, a letter, or perhaps just a few words of gratitude. John Bridges and Bryan Curtis call on their trademark wit to illustrate the skill of meaningful expression and show how to avoid those clichés, awkward jokes, and rambling speeches that threaten to derail the mood of any occasion. Learn how to keep your "just a few words" as succinct as possible, which rare occasions are suitable for an e-mail, and the proper way to give a toast everyone will remember. Perhaps he's been asked to say a few words at his college roommate's engagement party. Maybe he's at a family cookout, toasting his sister's recent law school graduation. Have his parents reached a milestone anniversary that deserves a son's perspective' Is his professional mentor retiring after decades as a leader in his field' Throughout his adult life, a man encounters those occasions that depend on his ability to distill the emotions of the moment into a toast, a letter, or perhaps just a few words of gratitude. John Bridges and Bryan Curtis call on their trademark wit to illustrate the skill of meaningful expression and show how to avoid those clichEs, awkward jokes, and rambling speeches that threaten to derail the mood of any occasion. Learn how to keep your "just a few words" as succinct as possible, which rare occasions are suitable for an e-mail, and the proper way to give a toast everyone will remember

Mastering and becoming comfortable with the ability to make a toast or write a note will pay rich dividends in a gentleman's life-both professional and personal. Toasts and Tributes helps men master these important skills with examples of more than 40 different toasts and 40 different notes. In addition to each example of what to say are, perhaps more importantly, examples of what not to say.

A gentleman's giode to personal correspondence and the noble tradition of the toast