Duties of a Best Man

[Altamont Ravenard]

The friend I have known for the longest time (~23 years) is getting married this summer. The decision came abruptly, and hasn't left me much to organize a bachelor party. We won't be doing the usual "humiliate the groom at the local strip joint", since I don't think the participants would enjoy it (especially the groom).

I was looking for ideas for bachelor parties you might have organized or participated in. We're in a big city, so a lot of stuff is available. Let the suggestions abound, I'll greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

AR

 

[devilbat]

Paintball
Poker night
Golf outing
Road Trip
Guys Camping Weekend
Fishing
Basic Dinner & Drinks
Pool & Darts tourney

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I'm a woman, so my suggestions for a bachelor party may suck*:

Night at a comedy club
improv comedy class
rafting
trip to a major theme park (Busch Gardens?)
See what concerts are coming to town

*I had originally typed: "I am a woman, so my suggestions may suck," but I knew someone would take that and put it in their sig. Ha ha! I beat you before you could even spite me!

 

[Teflon Billy]

We won't be doing the usual "humiliate the groom at the local strip joint", since I don't think the participants would enjoy it (especially the groom)...

Then I say don't bother.

If you are going to flout tradition, why even go through the motions

 

[Greylock]

Teflon Billy speaks the truth.

If strip clubs and the groom aren't the focus of the party, you are cheating the groom. Don't even bother. He'll need the sleep so let him be.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

For my bachelor party, I'm hoping for paintball, poker, and a strip joint.

The only thing missing to make it 'perfect' would be a marathon session of D&D.

As for 'sleep deprivation' I strongly recommend holding the bachelor party at least one weekend before the wedding.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

We just had the bachelor party for one of my friends this weekend. It consisted of an afternoon of paintball at an indoor facility (so no weather considerations), followed by dinner at a restaurant and then over to one guys house for drinking and a game of Star Munchkin. Sure to some it sounds lame, but we all enjoyed ourselves, had plenty of time to talk to the groom, laughed a hell of a lot and in the end probably spent less money than we would have dropped at an evening in a strip club.

We also considered dinner at the Medieval Manor in Boston (basically comedy dinner theather), but the group was too large - they require parties over a certain size to be mixed gender. I think they are concerned that large bachelor parties leads to a little too much slap and tickle of the serving wenches.

For my bachelor party, so many years ago, we went to a sports bar that had games where we did considerable drinking (and discovered my best man's reflexes at air hockey became better the more he drank), followed by a comedy club where we had a table in the front and the party made sure every comedian knew I was the bachelor - then let the comedians humiliate me.

Maybe it is just the clubs around here but I've been to several bachelor parties at strip clubs, and with one exception they were pretty lame, in my opinion.

 

[Nifft]

I read the title as "Duties of a Beast Man", and thought to find some tips on Gnolls and Lunar Exalted cultists.

-- N

 

[KenM]

We also considered dinner at the Medieval Manor in Boston (basically comedy dinner theather), but the group was too large - they require parties over a certain size to be mixed gender.

Sorry for the hijack, but that sounds like flat out discrimnation to me. Because everyone in your group is male, they won't let you in? I wonder if you would have gotten that same answer if you were all female, for a "girls night out". I might have a female friend of mine call and ask, just to see what they say when its an all female party.

 

[Ambrus]

I agree with Teflon Billy. Strippers and bachelor parties are essentially synonimous. Having a bachelor party without strippers is like playing hockey but calling it "golf".

Originally Posted by Queen_Dopplepopolis
*I had originally typed: "I am a woman, so my suggestions may suck," but I knew someone would take that and put it in their sig. Ha ha! I beat you before you could even spite me!

But gloating about catching your mistake has given us the oppurtunity you tried to twart because we can now indeed quote you as having said "I am a woman, so my suggestions may suck". Lack of context is the bane of all quotes.

Originally Posted by Wulf Ratbane
For my bachelor party, I'm hoping for paintball, poker, and a strip joint.
The only thing missing to make it 'perfect' would be a marathon session of D&D.

How about a marathon session of D&D with strippers? Why should they mind rolling some dice if you're paying them either way?