While there's nothing more painful than shopping to put gifts on your wedding registry (even if they're free gifts), GroomGroove.com features a cool new concept: the charitable wedding registry. Pick a couple of charities with your bride-to-be, put them on a wedding registry and have your wedding guests donate (in addition to buying you a wedding gift!). Grooms and brides are raising upwards of $1,500 for a wide range of nonprofits. Build some great marital karma and learn more about the woman you're marrying in the process.
Grooms give a speech at the wedding. (Gulp.) Now, there's no sense getting scared about the prospects. In this video, we figure out how the groom can conquer a serious case of the nerves.
So W's daughter is getting married this coming weekend, to some groom. Whatever you think about the groom's father in law, it's gotta be REALLY TOUGH to be the son-in-law of a sitting president. We're pretty sure that it'd be pretty good for your career, in that pops or gramps could probably hook you up for a job. That said, the pressure to do something cool with your life must be pretty high. "I want to go to law school" or "I'm just finishing up my Master's Degree" probably gets W.'s sign of approval. As for Jenna Bush's groom, Henry Hager, he used to work in the White House as an aide to Karl Rove, apparently. My question is how the heck to you get on President Bush's agenda to ask your girlfriends father for permission to marry? Doesn't he have a magic button to make you disappear? Anyway - good luck to Jenna Bush and Henry Hager for a long and successful marriage.
John Leydon is co-owner of the nationally-acclaimed Chicago spa, Ruby Room
Is your Bride worried about your hair on wedding day? I've noticed the old adage, what's old is new. Retro cuts with extreme differences between the lengths on the top and sides are cool. But, again, I would not get too adventurous on the big day. Save it for the honeymoon.
The Wedding Chick answers any question a groom-to-be wants to ask - from groomsmen gifts to wedding attire. Most recently, a groom asks her about his bride getting cold feet.
It's almost wedding season. If you're a groom getting married this summer, this article gives some quick tips on how to get fit before wedding day, from Mike Ryan, our expert on fitness, from our partner, Gold's Gym. It's not too late to lose the spare tire.
Grooms can go high tech with a webcast of their wedding ceremony. All grooms need is an internet connection, a camera and GroomGroove.com's "our pick for grooms": Wedding Webcasts. In this most modern method of connecting families and friends, now no one has an excuse not to show up at the wedding. Read more about one company that is making it easy for grooms and brides.
In addition to your long list of best man duties, you should know that there will also be some financial obligations. The best man will have control over some of these expenses and yet others, the best man will just have to cough up at the bride and groom's behest. One thing's for sure; the minute the groom announces that he and his fiancee will be getting hitched in the Himalayas, in the spring of next year, the best man had better start saving.
So what, exactly, does a groom have to do leading up to wedding day? Surely, the groom's gotta do more than make a marriage proposal. This article and the video inside cover all the bases.
Once a groom has offered a buddy or a brother a spot as the best man or groomsman, it's pretty hard to change that person out. Here are some considerations the groom should keep in mind when having second thoughts about their choice of best man or groomsmen.
Grooms are likely to be tasked with organizing transportation to get the bride to the wedding ceremony, and to get the wedding party from the ceremony to a photo shoot and/or the wedding reception.