Question

As the event organizer, one of your primary responsibilities will be to ensure that your event gets off to a good start. Typically, events begin by welcoming participants and spectators and thanking the local community, sponsors, and volunteers for the role, they are playing in the event. Post the opening remarks you could use to launch the event. Provide your peers with feedback about their opening remarks including additions they could make to their remarks along with comments about ways they can improve upon their ceremonial opening.

Answer 1

The opening remarks would be:

Good morning to our esteemed guests and one and all present here and thank you so much for taking your time out to witness the most awaited event of the year. We welcome you all.

We would also like to thank all our sponsors for helping us in making this event possible and considering the fact many of us have come from far away indicates that we are doing some good work and it is really appreciating and motivating to see you all here.

Working everyday makes the life monotonous and boring and this is our attempt to fill in some of the happy moments in your life by giving you all an off fun day which you can cherish for the rest of your life.

On behalf of the entire organizing committee I welcome you all to enjoy this joyful ride of 6-7 hours today.

For my peers below are the points that they should keep in mind to ensure that their opening remarks are attractive and worth listening:

• Ensure that the tone is correct i.e. they should first understand what the event is all about.
• The remark should be such that audience is always engaged and excited about what would be said next.
• Do not crack any joke which might be offensive because you will never want that at the very beginning of the event.
• Keep the starting a little formal.