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Your Toastmaster is 48 year old Jersey born Robert Michieli, President of the Royal Guild of Toastmasters. He has been a professional Toastmaster for 25 years and his services are in much demand throughout the United Kingdom. Noted for his charm, Robert is a regular recipient of the Courtesy Award.
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Ensure your special day is a success - your toastmaster will:
- Remove all the stress and worries on the 'Big Day'
- Ensure everybody involved in the organisation of the day performs to the best of their ability
- Ensure that everything runs according to your wishes and requirements
- Ensure that your event is conducted with authority and dignity but without being overbearing
- Offer independent advice and can be consulted on all the different facets of the occasion
- Add that extra 'Touch of Class' to the occasion
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Robert's personality and service are renowned in Britain's top banqueting rooms and hotels and he has mastered ceremonies for Royalty and visiting Heads of State.
Robert's motto is: Don't Chance it, Enhance it. Engage a Professional Toastmaster for the smooth running of your reception. Whatever your event, Robert will ensure it is a great success using his skill and experience as Toastmaster / Master of Ceremonies. His attention to detail and unobtrusive and diplomatic liaison throughout your event will ensure that it runs smoothly, arriving at a successful conclusion.
Weddings
A professional Toastmaster is employed to ensure the Bride and Bridegroom, Best Man, and Parents can relax and enjoy this memorable day without concern for the order and timing of events. Using his or her experience and professional manner, the Toastmaster co-ordinates events to guarantee your special day unfolds just as you planned.
Robert will create a friendly atmosphere which is as formal or informal as you wish, will reassure the nervous and add an extra touch of colour and sparkle to make your day even more special. By supporting the wedding party, chefs, caterers, photographers and musicians alike, he will ensure everyone gives their best performance.
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With Robert, you can expect him to undertake the following duties:
- Advise on wedding etiquette and customs during the planning
- Greet the bridal couple and their guests on arrival at the reception venue
- Inform the guests of the reception details and ensure any special arrangements for elderly, infirm or disabled are in place
- Organise the receiving line, announce guests and co-ordinate the acceptance of wedding gifts
- Assist with photographs if required
- Call guests' attention to the seating arrangements and to take their places at the tables for the start of the wedding breakfast
- Announce the Bride and Bridegroom and escort them to their table
- Announce or say Grace if required
- Make any specific announcements, as requested, e.g. no smoking
- Conduct the toasts and announce the speakers
- Organise the circulation of the guest book, if required
- Announce the cutting of the wedding cake
- Introduce the speakers for the customary toasts and responses
- Handle bouquets and presents as required
- Arrange the retiring of the bridal couple from the table
- Advise guests of subsequent arrangements
- Liaise with the band or disco as to the setting up of the equipment
- Announce the bridal couple for the first dance
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History of The Toastmaster
In medieval times, men were employed as experts on the quality of wine, checking the ingredients laid before them, and this was stirred into a main pot by the use of a fork with a piece of bread on it, after this was placed in a flame - hence the name Master Of The Toasts. In 1649 a article in the Tatler talks of 3 gentlemen in the town of Bath, who scooped water from the spar and in the bottom was a soggy piece of bread (toast), Where upon they embarked on pledging the Health of the Women of Bath. This was the first recorded toast by Witty Baldarchy.
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[1] Today, the toastmaster is typically charged with organization of the event, arranging the order of speakers, introducing one or more of the speakers, and keeping the event on schedule. Such meetings typically include civic events, service organization meetings, and banquets of various purpose. In many meetings, a toastmaster typically addresses the audience from behind a dais or from a podium.
About Robert Michieli
As a fellow of the Guild of Professional Toastmasters from 1985 to 1995 (when he moved to the Royal Guild of Toastmasters) he regularly presented the prestigious After Dinner Speakers Award, to recipients as distinguished and varied as Baroness Thatcher, Sir Peter Ustinov and Bob Monkhouse. On the 20th March 2007 he was the Toastmaster for the largest ever sit down dinner (1900 guests) recorded in Europe, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.
On the occasion of the Queen Mothers 100th birthday, Robert visited Clarence House to present her with a gift on behalf of the Guild. He also presented the Queen with a gift at Buckingham Palace in celebration of Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee.
You can imagine over the past 25 years being a professional Toastmaster, Robert has mastered every type of function imaginable. From launching a ship; Topping up Ceremonies; Award Ceremonies; State Banquets; Civic Banquets; City Livery; Auctioneering; Comparing; All types of religious Wedding receptions; Garden Parties etc.
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