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Lol this must sound crazy to anyone who hasn't seen My Fair Lady:
"Alright fellas, we've got a dozen bottles of tequila and bourbon, an eightball of speed and a bus load of hookers is on their way up. Pop on the My Fair Lady soundtrack and let's get fucking nuts!"
In the planning stage lah.
I HATE getting dragged to a Bachelor party that has been so totally neutered to avoid pissing off the fiancee that it's just a hangout. The whole concept is that it's one last night out with the boys before getting married, if it is entirely things that you're allowed to do after you get married then why are you fucking dragging me out to Nashville or Asheville or whatever. I kid you not: somebody tried to get me to go on a fucking GHOST TOUR as part of a bachelor party.
Then you have the guys who are so petrified of speaking to another woman that we have to go out into the woods miles from anywhere at all and drink so much expensive bourbon that someone almost dies. Which I don't ENTIRELY object to, but don't entirely like either.
Bachelor parties should feature a mix of bars, nightclubs and strip clubs. The groom-to-be should engage in some minor activity that he would not engage in once married. If no one is seeing, or at minimum brushing against, some breasts then it is a waste of everyone's time. We should be in various places where everyone points at the groom-to-be and says he's about to get married, and women in the place at least play at trying to seduce him away from marriage, attention which he enjoys but resists.
Hence the song! It's the perfect outline of everything a Bachelor party should consist of rightfully. Drinking, song, dance, loose women, a controllable modicum of risk. If you lack one or more of those elements, don't drag me on some cockamamie Groom Shower for your fat fiancee's instagram.
Maybe I just want to do things I actually enjoy? Never liked clubs of any sort least of all the stripper variant. And practically anything I'd want to do I'll be able to do in marriage as I've won the heart of someone who trusts me. The actual hard things to do in marriage, because I'm planning on kids(If all goes to plan one will be in the oven by 2025) is gong to be finding time with my friends who are now all over the US to spend a few days having no responsibility fun.
But then again I don't think you'd have to really worry about being dragged to my bachelor party.
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Bachelor parties have been getting progressively more depressing over the past decade. To be honest, I kinda wish we could go back to the days when some guys wouldn't want to go to strip clubs because it would make their insecure fiance uncomfortable - at least I can understand wanting to compromise for your loved one (although I don't think it bodes well for the relationship).
These past few years I have noped out of two bachelor parties which refused to go to a strip club or hire a stripper because it would make the groom uncomfortable. In my opinion someone who still blushes at the sight of a nipple isn't ready to get married. Like, I get not being interested in strip clubs - I'm too cheap to venture into one outside of special occasions like a bachelor party or an 18th birthday party - but like you said, a bachelor party is supposed to be about doing things you aren't supposed to do once you are married!
Unbelievable. Such a tremendous amount of soy.
I wonder to what extent this has resulted from the parallelism: it's assumed that both bride and groom will have a Bachelor/ette and that they will be equivalent.
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