Anyone been a Best Man before? Suggestions?
My friend has chosen me to be his Best Man in his June 2003 wedding. Aside from the usual stuff of bearing the ring, giving the speech at the reception, yadda yadda, is there anything I should know about that the wedding web sites or books don't cover? Any other advice?
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Say thanks that someone in the world appreciates you and lets you have an honorable position in such a wonderfully special time in their lives.
Basically, it boils down to this: you are his right-hand man. He gets nervous, you're there to hang with him. He can't believe he didn't pack black socks, you're on the case. You coordinate things so he doesn't have to think about them. You keep the focus on the magic of the day and not on more mundane trivalities. You help organize other guys to be foot soldiers making sure things go well.
You are Jeeves to his Wooster.
Finally, you have one very important duty. At the bachelor party it is your duty to discreetly intercept the numerous well-meaning but stupid shots, like double peppermint schnapps, dished out at four thirty pm ? just when everything's first getting rolling. Because, as we all know, the groom's eventually gonna boot, but the fun can't be over at six pm because of it.
He's gotta go the distance and you're there to make sure of that. And to make sure when he falls down drunk the cut on his forehead isn't so bad that it will show up in all his wedding pictures.
Good luck and feel honored.
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As for the bachelor party, it's real easy when you enlist the barkeep's help. Ask for 'the most interesting drink they know'.
Beyond that, it doesn't call for anything beyond what you presumably do already, which is to be a good friend to the groom.
Good luck...
He took dozens o' pictures but nobody saw him again for quite a while thereafter. When the pictures turned up it transpired he'd set the shutter speed too high for the flash and a' we got was loads o' shots o' people's fancy shoes wi' the top half o' every photo entirely black.
No' only that - he'd been so upset he went tae the pub, got drunk and sold my camera and a' its accessories tae buy mare booze. In such a situation ancient Scottish Law usually demands that the Best Man mak' full restitution in the form o' gold, wenches, estates and treasure, but he was as financially challenged as I was.
I still cannae see a wedding withoot a tear coming tae my eye.
[ 01-30-2002: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
Twa bluidy disasters the same day!
BTW, I'm honored that you responded to my thread. *tear*
<strong>At the first signs o' fisticuffinous intentions betwixt the respective matrimonious clans hide under the table.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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I don't see that happening, but thanks for the advice!