How To: Organise A Stag Party
When it’s time to tie the knot and take the dive, you way as well go out on a high! A stag party is the last chance for a man to enjoy his freedom and more importantly enjoy the company of their friends before they are destined for cuddly nights in and ‘couples evenings’.
Many people traditionally would go to a big city in the UK but with cheap travel and accommodation, many are now opting for somewhere further afield. Eastern Europe and the Med are popular destinations but some people are even going as far as Thailand or Las Vegas. But if you are planning one consider the circle of friends you mix with and whether they can all afford what you have planned, the last thing you want is to exclude your best man because he doesn’t work as an investment banker like the rest of you.
The key to success is in the planning; you can’t just wing it and hope for the best, you don’t want to waste something that doesn’t come along very often. Your planning should begin way in advance and if you have a wedding date make sure there is a period of recovery time before the big day, enough time for tattoos to be removed and eyebrows to grow back.
With your destination and date sorted, think about a theme, something that can bring you all together in looking like complete idiots. You will also discover it much easier to find all your friends in an underground Krakow club if everyone is wearing fluorescent pink man-kinis. If you can’t think of a theme good enough then consider charity shop roulette, each person can spend 10 in a charity shop on a full outfit that they may or may not wear, then put each outfit in a black bin bag and hand them out at random, you MUST wear what you are given. This way everyone ends up wit ha horrendous outfit that they had no choice in buying, the outcome will be hilarious.
If you do go abroad, go for a long weekend to make the most of it, rather than just sitting around recovering during the day time, it is worth planning some activities to make the weekend memorable. Paintballing is usually a popular choice or try contacting some local sports teams and organising a friendly game, many parties will organise a fancy dress match against some locals where nothing is taken seriously.
One thing that is key to remember when going on a stag do is that most of the attendees other halves will probably have issue with them going and probably won’t be greeting them with open arms on their return, so try and make the whole debauchery seem a lot ‘tamer’ than it is, make everyone agree that ‘what goes on the stag do, stays on the stag do’, if there is need for a cover story make sure everyone is clear of what it is. Bringing home a gift for your loved one is also a good idea as it might make them forget about the pictures of you with strippers all over facebook!
If you are planning a stag party for the groom, make sure there are a few novelty gifts and unique gifts waiting for him along the way to make things interesting.