Eli5: What do people do in a bachelor or bachelorette party and does it always only involve single people
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Unpopular opinion: the folks who say “my last night of freedom” never have a successful marriage and are counting the days until their divorce.
Drugs and good times with old and new close friends of the groom. Strippers are always a good time until your one friend that never gets out thinks ‘this strippers really into me, man!’
I’ve been to several bachelor parties in my day, and even thrown one. The most accurate answer is that it depends entirely on the bride and groom, and their personalities. The activities of the bachelor parties have varied drastically, from getting a VERY nice suite at a casino playing poker st a private table, to renting an Airbnb for a 4 day weekend & renting a movie theater to play video games on the screen, to hanging out smoking weed and drinking before we went to a gentlemen’s club or had a exotic dancer show up. Personally, I found the parties with the exotic dancers the least fun.
No they don’t have to only involve single people and what happens is whatever the bride/groom to be wants to do. There is no set format. They aren’t compulsory either. I didn’t have one before I got married.
Varies hugely. For mine I hired a house in the countryside and had a load of friends for the weekend – big shared meals, a couple of long walks, boardgames, a couple of pubs. It was lovely. I’ve been to ones where there were activities like paintballing or clay pigeon shooting or kayaking. I’ve been to one or two where strippers were hired. Those I enjoyed least of all.
For me a good one is about spending quality time with friends.
And no, not everyone was single. For mine I even had a pretty even mix of ladies and gents. Because I wanted friends because they were friends, not to have some weird focus on not being ‘single’ any more.
Whatever they want to do and no, they are generally just friends of the bride and groom. Married or not has absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s just the friends they want to celebrate with.
Like for my brother-in-laws bachelor party we sat around playing cards and drank a little. Then the next morning we all went and played a round of golf.
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