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You have been given excellent advice. The only thing that I would add is to monitor the length of your talk. Even when people practice what they are going to say they end up going long. As someone who routinely does public speaking I know this first hand. I plan for only about 75-80% of the alloted time, because it somehow stretches once I am in front of people.
I attended a breast cancer luncheon where 3 survivors gave talks, with instructions of only 5 minutes each. The first speaker went almost 30 minutes. I noticed those in charge giving every non-verbal in the world to try to get her to wrap it up, including going up on stage with her, then to the podium, then literally taking the microphone away! She thought that she had only been up there around 7-8 minutes and was mortified to learn that it had been 4x that long.
The audience was completely annoyed in all that long-windedness, and the initial impact of her (once excellent) speech was lost. The speaker meant well, but it is soooo easy to lose track of time when on stage. If there is not a clock that you can non-chalantly watch then have your husband give you some gestural cues when it is time to start wrapping things up.
Good luck! As a speech pathologist, this is a cause near and dear to me!
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