Your buddy is about to get married, leaving his illustrious career as a single guy behind him.   It's up to you to send him off with a bachelor party he'll never forget (or, that he'll have to struggle to remember), the kind of shindig that will forever be discussed with reverence by those fortunate enough to be a part of it.GroomGroove.com is here to help the best man organize a wild bachelor party.

Mild versus Wild

Long before the bachelor party, the groom and the best man should take some time to discuss the party's tone. With this guide, the best man, as chief organizing officer, is planning a wild bachelor party. Golf and steak, yes, but there's more...Defining the tone in advance is important since it will help the best man organize a party that will make both the groom and bride-to-be happy. It will also help the best man give guests a heads-up in terms of what to expect.

A mild bachelor party and wild bachelor party are likely to start out the same.   While your day may involve a poker tournament, golf or go-carts, you take the groom and a bunch of the guys out for a nice dinner. (FYI: The groom never pays for himself.) What happens after that distinguishes this bachelor party from any other.

Bachelor Parties and Strip Clubs are Like Beer and Peanuts  

You may have that classic North American bachelor party image in your mind - hitting the strip clubs, making sure the groom stuffs enough money into a stripper's g-string to pay for her new car, tossing back drinks like you're back in college.   It is as complicated as hitting an ATM, piling into a few taxis or cars and heading to the nearest nudie bar. If that's all you want, then it really is as easy as it seems.   If, however, you want this night to truly be something unforgettable, it will take a bit more planning, and you, best man, are just the guy to do it.

The Element of Surprise

The groom may want to have a hand in planning his own bachelor party, and under normal circumstances, that's just fine.  

These are not normal circumstances.  

The key to a wild bachelor party is the element of surprise.   The less the groom knows about where you're taking him, what he'll be doing when you get there, and how long it is going to last, the better.   Anybody can take a groom out, get him drunk, and snap a couple pictures of him smoking a cigar with a stripper's bra on his head. Child's play.   Keep the groom out of the loop, though, and he's totally at your mercy.

Your Town or Something Different?

No matter where you are in the world, there is a "bachelor party-friendly" city within a roadtrip or flight away. GroomGroove.com guarantees that Atlantic City, Copenhagen, Vegas, Montreal, Tijuana, Ibiza, Stockholm, Miami or New Orleans are going to be much more conducive to a hell of a time than Denver, Ottawa, Philly or any other city combined. Keeping in mind the element of surprise, unless the groom is actually from Iceland, he's not going to expect a bachelor party in Iceland. (Iceland, GroomGroove.com notes, is an up and coming bachelor party destination.)

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