Comments on: A Bachelor Party Checklist

By: Bachelor Party Planning: Bring Lots of Money at Brakar.com

Bachelor Party Planning: Bring Lots of Money at Brakar.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:02:27 +0000

[...] has created an excellent bachelor party checklist for the Best Man. The fifteen point checklist shows just how much you have to take care of when [...]

By: Xtine

Xtine — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:08:36 +0000

Number 12 makes me think. What if you could bungee jump or white-water raft WITH strippers and hookers? How great would that be?

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:47:17 +0000

A couple thoughts/questions.

First, what are thoughts on family members of the future in-laws, or even the dad of the groom being involved in the bachelor party? For the party I threw, the groom requested that his future father and brother in laws be invited, as well as his dad. Is this normal? Personally, I wanted none of that at mine - her brother’s cool, but I wouldn’t want to be hanging with the “boys” and being vulgur and whatnot, likely talking about the future missus with her dad and brother there. It just seems weird.

Also, what are the thoughts on splitting the costs among those attending? Every party I’ve attended, we’ve always tried to keep it at a modest price per person, but have requested that everyone chip in to keep costs down. As a co-best man for one party, the two of us still ate a big cost of it. I guess it comes down to that some of us still don’t have a lot of disposable income, and really, the group of us drink and eat a lot. Asking one person to pay for the whole thing isn’t really fair. But is 50 bucks for a night of drinking, eating, etc. plus likely lodging for the night reasonable?

Maybe it’s my group of friends, but I’ve only had one guy where we actually “went out”. Everyone else has had parties focused more on their interests, and usually involved hanging out, sporting events, some sort of sports activity, or things like that. There was of course massive drinking, but we all seem to prefer the low key hang out at a private residence to hitting up the town. Plus it tends to be cheaper that way, too.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:07:12 +0000

Yeah, this is a great post, and it was fun using it as a report card for what I did for my best friend a few years back. It was the Vegas thing, but we did it right (read: threw an absolute gob of money doing it up and tipped voraciously). One tip: If you’re travelling, leave a full day/night after the main night’s party to recover and bond. It’s fun having that surreal dinner the next night and going ‘Holy shit, that was insane’. You’re in even better shape the following day, and you recovered with like-minded people who share your pain.

I can’t help you guys emphasize it enough. Tip EVERYONE who caters to you like you place no value on money. It really, really, REALLY makes everyone involved treat your rowdy group of obnoxious dickheads much better. Guaranteed.

One question: Female Friends/EX GIRLFRIENDS?? Are you insane, my good man? I’m kind of stressed just *thinking* about that one!

By: Pokysharpy

Pokysharpy — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:06:57 +0000

This post is fucking awesome… and it’s pretty much exactly what my best friend put together for me 3 years ago. It was a dash to Vegas, but it was for the whole weekend instead of one night, and it was perfect. An upstanding 10-man roster, fine gambling, one hell of a 5-star meal with wine and cocktails, an upscale gentlemen’s club, but most of all CLASS from top to bottom. It was swanky in every possible good sense of the word.

It is a weekend I will never forget, one of life’s perfect moments. I sincerely hope that he feels the same about my chance to throw him a party, even though some financial corners needed cutting due to several of his guests being either a) students or b) paying for their own upcoming weddings.

Jesus, I wanna do it again.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:24 +0000

I’m slowly become less terrified with the idea of marriage, and themes like this are making the choice between buying the damn engagement ring already, and faking my own death and moving to Mexico, lean closer to the former.