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About the Book
A simple and straightforward pocket-sized guide packed with everything a groom needs to know—from popping the question to planning the honeymoon.
You've found the one, and you are ready to commit to a happily married life – but now comes the hard part: You actually have to plan the wedding!
Stuff Every Groom Should Know is a conveniently sized guide to surviving the big day and starting married life with confidence. Learn how to build a realistic wedding budget, make the guest list and seating chart, choose your best man and wedding party, find the right tux, select wedding bands and an officiant, write your own vows, plan the music and reception, handle family opinions, and prepare for the bachelor party.
Head into the big day prepared with a roadmap to the planning, decisions, traditions, and responsibilities every groom should know.
You've found the one, and you are ready to commit to a happily married life – but now comes the hard part: You actually have to plan the wedding!
Stuff Every Groom Should Know is a conveniently sized guide to surviving the big day and starting married life with confidence. Learn how to build a realistic wedding budget, make the guest list and seating chart, choose your best man and wedding party, find the right tux, select wedding bands and an officiant, write your own vows, plan the music and reception, handle family opinions, and prepare for the bachelor party.
- Get straightforward advice for every stage from engagement to honeymoon, with the essential wedding-planning information a groom needs to participate, make decisions, and know what comes next
- Prepare for photos, meeting guests, the first dance, last-minute problems, cold feet, grooming, and the essential items every groom or best man should have close at hand
- A compact hardcover handbook for fiancés, sons, brothers, friends, and future husbands who want a simple, approachable roadmap from “yes” to “I do”
Head into the big day prepared with a roadmap to the planning, decisions, traditions, and responsibilities every groom should know.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ENGAGEMENT STUFF
Choosing the Ring
Popping the Question
Six Questions Everyone’s Going to Start Asking You
The Name Game
Ten Things That Are Definitely Going to Change After Marriage
Five Things That Definitely Won’t Change After Marriage
WEDDING PLANNING STUFF
It’s Only One Day: Keeping Perspective
A Guide to All the People Who Will Help You Pull This Off
How to Budget for a Wedding
How to Have a Wedding on the (Relatively) Cheap
Location, Location, Location
How to Write a Guest List
How to Make a Seating Chart
How to Choose the Best Best Man
Wedding Bands
How to Pick the Perfect Tux
A Head-to-Toe Glossary of Tuxedo Terms
Regarding Gift Registries
Regarding Religious Traditions
How to Choose an Officiant
How to Write Your Own Vows
Wedding Food (and Drink)
How to Pick Your Wedding Music
Wedding Playlist Cheat Sheet
How to Give Your Mom (and Your Fiancée’s Mom) Her Say
How to Survive Your Bachelor Party
Ten Things to Do the Night Before
WEDDING DAY STUFF
How to Melt Cold Feet
Tips for the Well-Groomed Groom
Nine Things Every Groom Needs in His (or His Best Man’s) Pocket
How to Cry Manfully
How to Rock Your Wedding Photos
How to Meet and Greet All Those Strangers
How to Nail the First Dance Day-Of
Problems That Will Inevitably Arise—and How to Deal
Your Drunk College Friends and You
Your Lovely New Wife
Regarding the Wedding Night
You Really Are Ready for This
AFTER-WEDDING STUFF
Read This Stuff Before the Wedding
How to Plan (and Budget for) a Honeymoon
How to Write Thank-You Notes
Six More Questions Everyone’s Going to Start Asking You
How to Have Good (Married) Sex
How to Say You’re Sorry
Ten (or So) Small but Essential Courtesies
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
ENGAGEMENT STUFF
Choosing the Ring
Popping the Question
Six Questions Everyone’s Going to Start Asking You
The Name Game
Ten Things That Are Definitely Going to Change After Marriage
Five Things That Definitely Won’t Change After Marriage
WEDDING PLANNING STUFF
It’s Only One Day: Keeping Perspective
A Guide to All the People Who Will Help You Pull This Off
How to Budget for a Wedding
How to Have a Wedding on the (Relatively) Cheap
Location, Location, Location
How to Write a Guest List
How to Make a Seating Chart
How to Choose the Best Best Man
Wedding Bands
How to Pick the Perfect Tux
A Head-to-Toe Glossary of Tuxedo Terms
Regarding Gift Registries
Regarding Religious Traditions
How to Choose an Officiant
How to Write Your Own Vows
Wedding Food (and Drink)
How to Pick Your Wedding Music
Wedding Playlist Cheat Sheet
How to Give Your Mom (and Your Fiancée’s Mom) Her Say
How to Survive Your Bachelor Party
Ten Things to Do the Night Before
WEDDING DAY STUFF
How to Melt Cold Feet
Tips for the Well-Groomed Groom
Nine Things Every Groom Needs in His (or His Best Man’s) Pocket
How to Cry Manfully
How to Rock Your Wedding Photos
How to Meet and Greet All Those Strangers
How to Nail the First Dance Day-Of
Problems That Will Inevitably Arise—and How to Deal
Your Drunk College Friends and You
Your Lovely New Wife
Regarding the Wedding Night
You Really Are Ready for This
AFTER-WEDDING STUFF
Read This Stuff Before the Wedding
How to Plan (and Budget for) a Honeymoon
How to Write Thank-You Notes
Six More Questions Everyone’s Going to Start Asking You
How to Have Good (Married) Sex
How to Say You’re Sorry
Ten (or So) Small but Essential Courtesies
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Product Details
- Publisher: Quirk Books (April 21, 2015)
- Length: 144 pages
- ISBN13: 9781594747977
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“The perfect engagement present for any couple getting ready to take the plunge.”—Philadelphia Weekly
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