Being The Best Man For Dummies by Bliss, Dominic -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Contents Introduction

About This Book What You’re Not to Read Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here

Part I : Initial Duties and the Stag Party

Chapter 1: Best Man Basics

I’m the Best Man! What Am I Supposed to Do? Important Advice to Heed

Chapter 2: Stag Dos and Stag Don’ts

Guest List Only Home or Away? Choosing the Organiser Getting Out and About The Sporting Life Evening Entertainment Sorting Out the Details

Chapter 3: The Stag Party

Warming Up the Stags No Sleep ’Til . . . Setting Him Up Getting the Stag Home Dealing with Emergencies Putting the Party on Record

Part II : Wedding Preparations and the Big Day

Chapter 4: The Build-up to the Big Day

Getting Him to the Church on Time Preparing Your Wedding Wardrobe Ushering the Ushers Rehearsing the Wedding Ceremony Organising the Groom’s Last Night

Chapter 5: The Morning of the Wedding

Rise and Shine Cool as a Cucumber Cross-town Traffic Band of Brothers: Organising the Ushers Dutch Courage: The Groom’s Last Drink as a Free Man

Chapter 6: The Actual Ceremony

Pew! What a Lot of People: Seating the Guests Altar-gether Now Postnuptial Duties

Chapter 7: The Wedding Reception

The Reception Guest Appearances For What We Are About to Receive Master of All He Surveys Seeing Off the Newly-weds

Part III : The Speech

Chapter 8: Writing the Speech

Structuring Your Speech Putting Pen to Paper Kicking Off on a Good Note Including the Essentials Dishing the Dirt on the Groom Absent Without Leave Quote Me on That

Chapter 9: Delivering and Presenting Your Speech

Practice Makes Perfect Fret Not Delivering the Goods

Part IV : The Part of Tens

Chapter 10: Ten Great Ideas for the Stag Do

Tee Time Fuelling Your Imagination Monopoly Board Pub Crawl Argy Bargey: Hiring a Barge War! What Is It Good for? The Sky’s the Limit: Sky Diving The Big Blue Viva Las Vegas The Beautiful Game Getting Festive

Chapter 11: Ten Best Stag Do Destinations

London, United Kingdom Newquay, United Kingdom Brighton, United Kingdom Nottingham, United Kingdom Barcelona, Spain Tallinn, Estonia Berlin, Germany Amsterdam, Holland Prague, Czech Republic Dublin, Irish Republic

Chapter 12: Ten Wedding Nightmare Scenarios

Stag Do Injuries Lose the Ring No-Show Bride, No-Show Groom Ceremony Interruption Wedding Fight Speech Embarrassments Drunken Guests Dodgy Weather Family Feuding Avoiding Temptation

Appendix: Surfing the Best Man Web

Wedding Basics Hunting for The Stag Do Organising the Wedding Day Sorting Out Your Speech

: Further Reading