Being the Best Man For Dummies - UK

Being the Best Man For Dummies is a perfect one-stop guide to being the ideal best man. This newly updated edition includes:

• Advice on organising the stag night (or weekend), including a guide to the best destinations, activities, and organisers, with contact information.
• An outline of your wedding day responsibilities (in the morning, at the church, during the reception, and all points in between) plus tips on how not to screw things up.
• A guide to writing a delivering a great speech, including opening lines, jokes, quotes, and more.
• Ten wedding-day nightmare scenarios to avoid.
• Guidance on how to dress to impress.

All that in one convenient package that also doubles as a terrific prop for the reception speech.

Dominic Bliss has been a freelance journalist for the last 20 years. He writes for magazines and newspapers on men's interest, sport and travel. He was founding editor of the men's wedding magazine, Stag & Groom.

Part I: Getting Started with Being the Best Man  5

Chapter 1: Best Man Basics  7

Chapter 2: Stag Do’s and Stag Don’ts  15

Chapter 3: The Stag Party  33

Part II: Wedding Preparations and the Big Day  43

Chapter 4: The Build-Up to the Big Day  45

Chapter 5: The Morning of the Wedding  61

Chapter 6: The Actual Ceremony  69

Chapter 7: The Wedding Reception  79

Part III: The Speech  87

Chapter 8: Writing the Speech  89

Chapter 9: Delivering and Presenting Your Speech  109

Part IV: The Part of Tens  125

Chapter 10: Ten Great Ideas for the Stag Do  127

Chapter 11: Ten Best Stag Do Destinations 133

Chapter 12: Ten Wedding Nightmare Scenarios 139

Chapter 13: Ten Great Budget Stag Tips  143

Chapter 14: Ten Great Drinking Games  149

Appendix: Surfing the Best Man Web  155

Index  165

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