Baby Shower Speech or Toast for Your Sister or Sister-In-Law
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- How to write a sweet baby shower speech or toast for your sister or sister-in-law
- Ideas and tips and advice to help you write a great baby shower toast for your sister or sister-in-law
- Baby shower speech sister examples or templates you can easily model your speech after
If you have a sister who means the world to you, then you can be sure that a very good sister is a priceless gift.
If you have one who is always there for you, then you can count your lucky stars.
From when you were little sisters, you’ve pulled her hair, yanked her clothes, fought with her when she’s hogged the washroom, thwacked her on the head with pillows, stolen her clothes, made her cry to your parents on multiple occasions, argued with her till the break of dawn, robbed her of her secret chocolate stash, teased her with her high school crushes till she’s been red in the face...all of this is literally just the tip of your sibling rivalry.
Now, your “snotty older sister” or “bratty younger sister” is all grown up.
Both of you are probably married by now and she’s expecting a baby child. I am sure you wish another sweet baby girl is added to the fold so you can possibly outnumber the guys in the family!
I know you’re incredibly thrilled for her deep, deep down. As her sister, you may also have the distinct honor and privilege of organizing her baby shower. What an honor!
But have you really considered what you will say when it’s time to talk about who your sister is, the bonds of friendship you shared over the years, and what you look forward to when you imagine her holding her cute bundle of blessing in her fragile arms?
I hope you love to! By the way, do you really have it takes to write a baby shower speech for your sister or sister-in-law?
Whether you are great with words or not, please don’t worry because in the next few lines I am going to share with you everything you need to know about writing and delivering a sweet baby shower speech for your sister even if you have never spoken before a small crowd your whole life!
Are you ready to come along with me? Ok, let’s get started. Just like every journey, you have to start by looking at what goes into making a baby shower speech and plan for it accordingly.
To do this, you have to watch a couple of views to get a fair idea of how such toasts are made because they put you in the mood for the proper expression of your thoughts and ideas in a very logical manner.
By the way, I found these video clips for you. I hope it not only inspires you but also fill your mind with great ideas to help you put together your random thoughts and ideas.
Baby Shower Speech for a Sister (Video example #1)
Baby Shower Speech for a Sister-In-Law (Video example #2)
I hope you learned a thing or two from watching those clips? If you haven’t, you can go back and watch them one more time.
That’s not all there is to writing a great one. You actually need to find and study well-written samples because they reinforce what you have heard or watched on those videos.
Now, let’s first look at this very touching baby shower speech sample for a sister.
After we have read through it together, we will break it down bit by bit so we can use the lessons learned to say something about your sister at her shower.
First and foremost, let’s look at the entire template. Go grab your pen and journal and see if there’s anything you can lift from this example. Let me say a big thank you to Caitlin's Happy Heart for letting us post this very beautiful, honest, funny, and sincere toast here.
Here you go:
Baby Shower Speech Sample For a Sister
Hi I’m Katrina Caitlin’s oldest sister!!!!
Well at least I always thought I should have been the oldest sister.
Let me tell you about my oldest sister Caitlin. She was always getting in the way, taking some of the attention. Bossing me around.
Yes, admittedly she taught me lots of useful life skills.
Like how to hold the guinea pigs
Like blowing bubbles in my drink
Writing on walls
Picking all Dad’s carrots out of the vegie patch!
And climbing the Cupboard that held the Christmas presents.
The Christmas Present Cupboard wasn’t all she snooped in. She was always reading my diary and would even write a message back at me in my diary starting an argument – in my very own diary!
Things didn’t always go to plan.
I still remember the day that she was helping me escape from the cot and she tipped the whole thing over on top of us both.
The last I remember was waking up to an ambulance officer standing over me and then I had to get my chin stitched up. Apparently she knocked herself out too! Mum wasn’t too impressed.
Alas the years of fun and games began.
We were the best of friends and the best of foes all at the same time.
When it suited us we got on very well. But truth is it just didn’t suit us all the time!
Dad used to say, you two need to learn to get on. Your sister will be the best friend you will ever have!
I remember she used to get so jealous of me some days. Why does Katrina get to go to bed at the same time as me or why does Katrina get this or that too….
It was always easy to get a bite out of her on these days!
The years seemed to fly by so quickly and soon we were teenagers.
My sister used to hate me coming up to her in high-school and talking to her when she was with her friends. So much so I used to seek her out – after all aren’t we meant to be best friends for life? Well so Dad says anyway.
She used to pretend she didn’t know me on the school bus and I used to annoy her by talking to all her friends!
We attended youth group together and some days we got on really well and other days I used to annoy and embarrass her. We seemed to be always competing with each other.
In fact our whole life seemed to be competitive…
She learnt to ride her push bike – so I got Dad to take my training wheels off and took off.
She finally got her driver’s license after a delayed start, a couple of failed tests and being a very nervous driver. And so it happened that the government changed the law and the day I turned 16 ½.
I went straight in and got my learners and license 6 months later. Now we had to share the car!
Boys – she got a boyfriend and suddenly a very nice young man begins to take me out as well!
You guessed it. The Weddings came. She was married in January 1998 and I was married in September the same year.
( I wasn’t allowed to marry a day sooner either because my parents made me wait to give Caitlin a chance – not to mention give their bank balance a chance.)
This is when Dad’s prophesy actually started to eventuate. We enjoyed a friendship once we were married.
After a few years of married bliss my sister began to desire to start a family. Then suddenly out of the blue the shock announcement happens!
I was expecting my first baby….
But it was now apparent the “Pain of infertility” was my sister and her husband allotment. That was followed by the pain of a miscarriage. My pregnancy only inflicted more hurt on my sister and only emphasized the pain she was feeling. It didn’t help that she miscarried twice during my pregnancy with my first born.
Suddenly all the years of competing and sibling rivalry were not important, suddenly I wished that my sister could experience the same joy as me. I think this is the one area that we were never competing yet somehow, strangely it seemed like I was the winner and she was the loser.
At first my sister didn’t know how she could love my child but once my little girl Emily was born neither of us can imagine how she couldn’t love her little niece.
The years passed and I fell pregnant with my second but still no joy of babies for my sister. I was so sure this baby would be another girl because my sister had always wanted a boy first and surely she would produce the first grandson/nephew.
To my surprise our little boy was born and I beat my sister to producing the first grandson as well.
Out of deference to my sister we did not use my Dad’s name, because we knew she wanted to use it as a 2nd name if she had a boy.
{Small side note from Caitlin: In the end, we didn’t use Dad’s first name, but rather his 2nd name for Toddler T’s middle name.
And we didn’t use it for J Boy because we realised there was a tradition in the Accountant’s family of naming first born son’s after their father. So in the end, Katrina was able to use Dad’s name for the middle name of her fifth child.}
I remember crying my own tears over this terrible road of infertility my sister was experiencing. Suddenly people started to think I was the older sister as I had the kids and she was still childless. It just didn’t seem like a victory having people think I was the oldest anymore.
Eventually my sister and her husband gave up on their desire to fall pregnant and moved over to England to pursue travel and career. After 6 months over there I can still remember the phone call from my sister – she was pregnant at last! We were all so excited.
A few months later I found out I was pregnant with my 3rd child and it was nice to experience pregnancy with my sister. Especially considering my other two pregnancy’s I couldn’t really share with her because of the emotions of pain and hurt that my pregnancy’s evoked on her
She had a boy – I had a girl – A cousin for my kids at last! Her little boy and my daughter are the best of friends (and foes) even now as two little 4 year olds going to kindy together.
The years continued to pass and soon I was in hospital having my 4th child and on the very same day my sister was a few doors up in the hospital going through the IVF procedure in the hope to have a sibling for J Boy. 9 months later my second nephew arrived!
When I fell pregnant with my 5th child
People started to marvel…
“I don’t know how you do it!” they would say. I would always look them in the eye and tell them that being a mum was the best job in the world and I don’t have 5 babies. I have all different ages and really it is quite manageable! You see I have 9, 6, 4, 2 year olds and a baby,
They are all different ages and stages. My sister and her husband started to tease us… They have never been keen on vans and they would giggle at us and say WE WILL NEVER BUY A VAN.
To tease them back I taught my nephews to love driving with us in the tarago and I even taught them to say Tarago amongst their first words dad, mum, bub, twargo!
We all seemed to settle in to life knowing that I would have the larger family full of kids and my sister would have the nice neat smaller family.
After another round of IVF in hope for their final child – hopefully even a little girl and some disappointments along the way February this year my sister finally had success – she was pregnant again!
The big surprise was that this time there was not one but two babies! How exciting twins!
Another early scan brought the biggest surprise of all…Not one, not two but 3 little babies inside. (2 identical and 1 fraternal!) My sister was having triplets.
After all those years of teasing and vowing to never own a van, after all those years of me being the one with the most kids, after all those years of infertility and pain….
I can now say with a giggle and a grin…How do you do it with 5 children – 5 years and under?
I did 5 one at a time and had a chance to adapt with each new addition…I have one child for every age group….
After all those years of competing, teasing and bickering I can now most sincerely say….
You are a legend sister dear! I say it with a giggle and a good luck too….
Sister you have won!
That's absoultely brilliant, right? I have read this over and over again and it never cease to bore me a bit.
Ok, let’s start breaking down this lovely example bit by bit with an eye towards writing your own heartfelt and funny baby shower speech or toast that comes straight from your heart.
First, let’s start with the introduction or opening remarks. Let’s recap what we saw in the above example so that we can be guided to do this very well.
‘’Hi I’m Katrina Caitlin’s oldest sister!!!!
Well at least I always thought I should have been the oldest sister.
Let me tell you about my oldest sister Caitlin…’’
One common thing runs through this line and it’s a short self-introduction. Here, you state your relationship with the mom-to-be and her husband.
After you’ve said, you then proceed to thank the people present. Here, you can single out personalities who have been a tremendous blessing in the lives of the expectant mother and her family and mention why you are giving them a shout out.
If you go back to read the entire speech once more, you will realize that the writer dives into the story straightaway into what her relationship with her sister has been like over the years.
I am sure she had a brainwave and had no trouble at all putting down her thoughts. But what about some of us who really struggle to put words together?
That’s where you need to work with a solid plan. Working with a solid plan depends on the objective of the speech.
Have you been asked to simple thank everyone for coming, asked to give a welcome speech or just do your own thing?
Ok, let’s look at each of the above toasts. First on the bill is welcome baby shower speech. If you are asked by your sister or sister-in-law to give some brief remarks welcoming everyone to the event, then you can go with this kind of toast.
Here’s an example
Hello and welcome everyone. For those of you who don’t know this cute girl, my name is Kate a.k.a The Redhead.
Thank you so much for coming to this occasion and by your presence, you have shown how much you love the most beautiful mom-to-be. If you care to know, she is my best friend and sister.
Second, you can simply thank everyone for coming to the event after welcoming them to your sister’s very special event.
Third, you can simply thank and welcome the guests and say a prayer if you or majority of the guests are Christians.
Now, let’s dive right into how you can put together your scattered thoughts into a very beautiful toast.
Again, it all comes down to planning. Planning what to say, how to say it, and when to say what you wish to say.
To do that, you first have to decide where you want to take this from. Do you want to give an account of your relationship with your sister over the years or you simply want to dwell on an aspect of her pregnancy or life.
Whatever angle you are aiming at, these easy-to-answer questions can fill your mind with rich ideas that can help you write a sweet baby shower toast for your sister or sister-in-law.
So, please grab your pen and let’s do a little brainstorming by first providing answers to the following questions:
- What fond memories do you want to share?
- How did you feel when she came into your life? You can put in your views if you are an older sister.
- What was life like growing up with your sister?
- What can you say about your teen years? This is how it’s captured in the above sample.
‘’The years seemed to fly by so quickly and soon we were teenagers.
My sister used to hate me coming up to her in high-school and talking to her when she was with her friends. So much so I used to seek her out – after all aren’t we meant to be best friends for life? Well so Dad says anyway…
- What makes her a very special person or sister?
- In what ways has she been a blessing in your life?
- Can you talk about her marriage or day of the wedding event? Were you the maid or matron of honor? And how did you feel on her big day?
Now, let’s pause and carefully consider a few things about her fertility and pregnancy
- Is this her first child? Or she has other children?
- If she has other children, how did she prepare for their arrival?
- If this is her first baby, then how has she been preparing to meet her cute bundle of blessings?
Action Tip: Using the answers you have written down to the questions above, quickly put your thoughts and ideas together to form a very rough draft. Don’t worry about how it flows because you can always go back and take out what you don’t really need until your script sparkles.
PS:Did You Know This Simple And Very Easy-To-Follow Plan Can Help You Come Up With The Best Ever Baby Shower Toast For Your Sister?
Dear Caring Sister,
The most precious gift you can gift your sister are words because whatever baby shower gifts you give her will fade sooner rather than later.
But your words will forever live in your sister's heart and ultimately propel her to be a much better person and mom down road.
Unfortunately, many siblings are not so good with words and it gets a bit terrifying when you imagine what to say before your own family, siblings and loved ones who will be looking forward to hearing from you a very heartfelt baby shower toast.
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Why? As you know, the current health crisis has caused severe hardships for most people.
Precious lives have been lost, jobs wiped out and families displaced, leaving everyone wondering what the future holds.
Yet, baby shower celebrations are going on and people have to still inspire and motivate their family and friends with the right words.
Nonetheless, not everyone could afford our services even before the pandemic suddenly hit us.
So, we have dropped our normal rates so you can simply pay what you want after you have got your beautiful speech.
Please note: When life gets back to normal, this offer will be scrapped for good.
So, please take advantage of it now even if the event is in the future.
Even though we are going through this crazy time, if you do a poor job at it, your speech will be captured on video, and viewers will forever remember what you said and would not attribute your poor performance to the fact there was a deadly disease in town.
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