So one of my oldest buddies is getting married in a couple months. I’m really happy for him. She’s a great girl and they’re well suited for one another.
Here’s my beef. His pals from university are planning the bachelor party. In Montreal. We all live in Halifax. This isn’t the first ‘destination bachelor party’ I’ve been invited to/attended.
When did bachelor parties become four day events requiring airline tickets and hotel suites? Whatever happened to a bunch of beer, poker, and a stripper?
I have a limited amount of vacation time and funds, and to be perfectly honest I’d rather use it on a trip with my girl. But I’d like to see my buddy off in style. What’s a guy to do?—Party Pooper
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
I didn’t have a stripper at mine…
course memory’s a little shoddy at best on the whole deal so maybe there was….
have a desert eagle and tell me how much you recall
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beer poker and stripper sounds like a wicked time.
you don’t need to fly away and light up a strange city to make it memorable.
ask him which he would prefer would be my stance.
lose the bud light zZz and it sounds drinkable
without the Bud Light it is not a Desert Eagle though PG… hence the fact that it is one of the nastiest shots you can enforce on someone. Hence the absolute pleasure we all took in watching him force it down.
OP.. I feel for you in your situation. Guess there is a choice you must make. Since the party is being planned by others, you must choose whether you want to be involved in this “sending-off” for your buddy, or reserve your vacation for this year for a trip with your girl. I have often heard the term, “Bro’s before ho’s”…
Again, the position you have been put in sucks, but I believe good communication with all concerned (including your girl) will allow you to make the decision that is right for you…. My advice… go to Montreal and have a bitchin weekend with your boy. Plan your trip with your girl for next year and improvise with something simpler for this year.
I’d go, for sure. I hear all the best strippers are in MTL anyway.
Ralph’s Ralph’s Ralph’s! The money you spend on airfare will go FAR in Ralph’s! LOL.
Life is short…fuck Ralph’s go to Montreal !
Party like you’ll never get another chance.
So you want him/them to forego the better bachelor party in MTL so you can go on a trip with your girl?? C’mon now, if you cant go, tell him that and take him out on your own time… Perhaps they know you won’t go, due to your party pooper status… I wonder why… “Sorry guy’s, I can’t afford a lap dance, or a round of drinks, or poker…”
OP here.
I don’t want to forgo the party in lieu of a trip with my girl. What I was trying to say is, I don’t have a whole lot of vacation time, or money, and I think it’s a big excessive to use 4-5 days plus $1000 or so dollars on a bachelor party. If I’m going to spend that kind of money on a trip, I’d rather it be a real “vacation”, as opposed to a drunken haze.
The point of my bitch was – why do bachelor parties have to be trips nowadays? What would be wrong with getting a bunch of guys together here in the city? We could still have a great time and cut loose.
So many applicable questions could be asked. Hopefully this will be the first and last BP thrown for HIM. So the idea is to go big or go home. How you do that without going in hock, snubbing your gal pal or worse case scenario, flaking on the party altogether, is known only to you.
definitely hoping it’s the last… one way or another.
Those are good questions.
I guess the problem is this seems to be the new BP trend. I’m at an age where I have a couple of buddies getting married each summer. I just can’t “go big” for each of them. And I think it’s unnecessary. One night is enough, isn’t it?
We had mine down at a winterized cottage in the country, & they arranged for a couple of hostesses to come down & see that we had some amusement. everything gets a bit hazy around the time there was talk of bobbing for corn on the cob , the first night o_O
I hate to say it but Halifax’s BP scene is well… pathetic… Have you seen most of the strippers here??? Montreal or Vegas is the destination of my choice in the near future… Clearly I wouldnt expect as many people to come, but I’ll bite the bullet for a better time… I just plan to have another smaller shin-dig for the poor folk…(jk about the poor thing, that’s not the only reason one couldnt go)
When I got married my friends and I did the cottage thing too and it was great. We brought all kinds of food, booze, cigars, etc. and just chilled out for a weekend. No one had to spend shitloads of money but we still had fun, got insanely drunk and I enjoyed my final weekend.
I went to a friend’s bachelor party last year… It was nice and tame: played some pool, had some food, poured drinks down his throat before taking him to McDonald’s in a drunken stupor before finally seeing him home to pass out in his own hallway. How does it get any better than that? No one had to feel guilty about having naked skanks rubbing their goods all over him, and he maintained the broadest smile I have ever seen him sport throughout the whole evening! Tell me he didn’t have the time of his life. OK, well until 10:00 or so. Once the Desert Eagle and Blue Smurf started kicking in he didn’t really remember so much…..
Throw him a second stag here in hfx for those who can’t afford to go to mtl
Stupid idea for a bachelor’s party, and expecting people will spend that much money. Don’t they read the news and realise the economy sucks? I agree with last poster, throw him a local bachelor’s party. Thank the fellow putting together the Montreal trip and politely decline, with apologies.
Seriously though, Montreal has the best strip clubs… Tell your buddies to hit up Super Sexe. Come to think of it, Montreal is essentially Canada’s Vegas.
I went to a bachelor party where all we did was drink, play poker and eat red meat. The morning after was horrible, and we didn’t have all that much fun; the groom-to-be ended up on the cabin floor passed out after one too many Rye and Gingers… he won’t touch Crown Royal anymore.
if he is one of your oldest and bestest friends then go have fun don’t be a schmuck
actually Doc Hull Qc. has the best strip clubs in the frigg’n world and the ‘A’ list peelers from all over the globe 😉
these things usually wind up causing nothing but trouble in the end. and stupid idiots thinking their warped fun ideas are just that, not fun.seen too many things fuck up, he should back way the fuck off.
Sounds like the groom-to-be will be getting his honeymoon before the wedding.
Plan a local one for him instead. Spend your time and money, your way, guilt free. Have fun.
🙂
You guys are pathetic that keep referring to the “best strippers”. pathetic.
The fact is this. The reason the boys wnat to go to Montreal is because they know that they will be out of site of the prying eyes of their wives and gf’s (and that includes the groom to be). They can go up there, get table dances galore, and maybe drag a skank or two back to the hotel room, and then come home to the wifey and act like nothing happened. It is what it is.
likely Bobby.
just remember to get all that glitter off ya.
Destination weddings are the same idea. Just because you’ve got lots of cash and want to get married in Bermuda doesn’t all your friends can do the same. That’s why you honeymoon there!
We need to go back to our Boy/Girl Scout roots and start fundraisers for these events.
I never really understood the whole idea behind bachelor parties. The whole last horrah before you get married doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense to me. Are men out there getting married to women who will never let them hang out with friends and get drunk ever again? In which case I can see why you would want to get out one last time, mind you I would seriously reconsider getting married to someone like that.
kirbul, it works both ways.
I used to hate the fucking hen parties when I was bouncing…
it’s like “what do you mean we can’t bring this whip into the bar??? it’s a bachelorette!”
uh duh… you fucking twat, get the dick shaped sippy cup out of your ear and listen…
you can’t bring whips and handcuffs and shit into a busy, public bar on a saturday night?!?!?
geez.
don’t miss a thing about those days.
PAS— So what you’re suggesting is that we do a bottle drive? What would we call it? I know…
Bottle Drive 2010: In support of David Fakename’s attempt to be pegged by a Transvestite prostitute in Montreal.
I’d support that.
Liquor and whores
Liquor and whores
Cigarettes and dope and mustard and bologna
Liquor and whores
zZz…sounds like all the ingredients needed for a successful weekend Party !
or a boring tuesday night…
zZz in my world any two days in a row is a weekend.
I’m lucky enough that the Monday to Friday grind is not a part of my world .
two days off-in a row…pure luxury(insert british accent)