Stag dos

Jon12345

Jon12345

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I have to arrange a stag do for a friend, since I am his best man. But he doesn't really know anybody! So, few questions...

1. Who pays? Do I as the best man pay for the day/eve/event? Or does the groom pay too?

2. Is it supposed to be a surprise or do you discuss what to do with the groom beforehand? What is deemed the norm?

3. Any recommendations on what to do?

Thanks,

Jon
 
1. Everyone pays their way although normally everyone chips in to pay for the groom.
2. Discuss
3. There are plenty of companies that organise weekends including paint balling, Clay shooting, quad biking etc etc plus clubbing and hotels inclusive. Great fun. I arranged one in Nottingham somewhere.

I got shot up the bottom by my mates gay friend who insisted in shouting out " I got huddy up the bum" :(
 
Depends on whether your group of friends are cheap or not.

I held a stag do a while ago basic stag do paintballing, strip club and then off to town to a club of nightclubs.

If you can get a kittie together for drinks very helpful if your mates dont take the mick with the drink orders etc. In this you can include a charge for the groom so he doesnt pay for drinks. As best man you should be expected to buy a few dances for the groom of course and pay for his sitch up on the night of course what ever you plan (naked lamp post action or fat ugly strippers :p)

The day events everyone one should pay there own way and maybe club together once again for the groom. If you take him paintballing they always have a couple of good ways of stitching the groom up as well as the best man :p
 
1) Generally as said some form of kitty/fund to pay into is a good idea and the usual practice on the ones I've been to is that the groom doesn't have to pay for the events of the day or only a token amount but it's not an absolute.

2) Depends on the sort of relationship you have with the groom and his other mates, normally I'd consider asking them to see if they've got any preferences - you don't have to give them a full breakdown of the day but a general idea of what they're letting themselves in for so that they can dress appropriately might be a good plan.

3) Paintballing, go-karting, assault course etc - generally anything that involves an activity and some form of competitiveness is pretty well received but you know the groom and mates better than we do.
 
We took my mate to Slovenia for 4 days in April - best man came up with the idea and got everyone elses opinion. Didn't tell the groom anything until he was at the airport (with a hangover as we'd gone out the night before and stayed in a hotel in Edinburgh). Didn't know what was going on when we woke him at 6am, stuck him in a taxi and handed him his passport. :D

Did white water rafting while we were there and then got very drunk, strip clubs etc - all the usual.

Everyone paid for their own flights/accomodation/rafting etc, and chipped in for his stuff. For drinks we would all just put money in a kitty for the night.
 
1) everyone bar pays their way - but the groom gets drinks and dances paid by everyone else i'd say.
2) I'd discuss it with everyone to a degree - not fare on all parties if they don't know what there letting themselves into financially and physically...
3) Generally something the groom would like to do, but won't get to with his future misses - so excessive drinking, curries, generic manly things like paint ball and Nekid ladies.

I've been to a couple that were very loosely organized and thus not the best, get some decent ideas of what to do - you can't drink all weekend without it getting a little tedious...
 
Discuss the general theme and boundaries of the night. Details are up to you, as the best man.

Strip-clubs are **** for Stag Dos. Strippers, on proper stag dos, humiliate the stag in front of his peers. Chains, handcuffs, whips, candle wax, baby oil, etc. None of this just waggling her bits in his face.
 
I was best man for my brother a few weeks back now, he actualy booked the main things as he really knew what he wanted, so we got a cottage for the weekend, about 19 of us in all, poker night, games, etc,, for the friday, saturday was a day playing sports as it was a nice day, and so everyone wasn't bladdered by 5pm :p then dressed my brother up as a Hawaiian Hula Girl and took him off to town, where his future father in law to be set a hen party on him, leaving him naked in the middle of the pub :D
 
I've been best man for a few mates, and have organised a few stag dos', first was a weekend paintballing, go karting and clubbing in north wales, second was a weekend in dublin, go karting, clubbing / pubs etc, last one was in Prague long weekend go karting, clubbing and shooting hand guns and shotguns at a shooting range. All good but Prague was the best, good lap dances too!
ps: everyone paid ther own way, but everyone also chipped in to buy the grooms' activities, eg karting and shooting etc so that was all free for him, always discussed everything with the groom (apart from the suprise stripstease!)
 
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Jon12345 said:
I have to arrange a stag do for a friend, since I am his best man. But he doesn't really know anybody! So, few questions...

1. Who pays? Do I as the best man pay for the day/eve/event? Or does the groom pay too?
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The groom doesn't pay, you just organise everything.You and all his mates club together to pay the bills.
2. Is it supposed to be a surprise or do you discuss what to do with the groom beforehand? What is deemed the norm?
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Surpise yes, don't discuss with the groom but plan it out with your other mates.
3. Any recommendations on what to do?
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Got my mate a stripper dressed as a police woman (maybe old hat now).
Threw him in the lake outside the police station.

Any light/major humiliation depending on what you think he can take :p
 
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