Congrats are in order for Joe Lombino and his fiancee, Carroll Anne Kolakowski, who won the Gillette and GroomGroove.com marriage proposal story contest. Joe’s winning marriage proposal story is here. Our winner won $1,000 in cash, and a year’s supply of Gillette Clinical Strength Deodorant. (Forget the cash, who doesn’t need more pit stick!). The [...]
Check back on Wednesday - we’re announcing our marriage proposal story contest winner. The winning proposal story was just a regular guy, doing his thing. There were no airplanes involved or other over the top features in the winning story. We happen to think that it goes to show that a cool marriage proposal doesn’t [...]
It’s Memorial Day Weekend - the official kick-off to summer time. There’s a ton of grooms ands brides getting married today, Saturday, so we’re hoping for great weather for all of you. If you’re getting married today or tomorrow, congrats. Now, if you’re getting married a bit later in the summer, it’s not a bad [...]
It’s too late to buy your bride a “thanks for marrying me” wedding gift. But if you’re a groom getting married later in the summer - it’s not a bad idea to read about (and act on) gifts from the groom to the bride. Now, you may be thinking: “I already bought her a gift [...]
Yup. It’s contentious. We wrote a piece on your wife legally changing her name, and we’ve gotten several comments in the comments to the article. Some think that the piece is bang on, and some women have questioned why a guy wouldn’t be called upon to change HIS name to HERs.
The only things that are [...]
You know how as a kid, you would death grip a baseball bat or golf club when you were up for bat or at the tee, and all the boys were watching? Shanked it right? Well, a key to both of these sports is breathing, which tends to relax your nerves, and your death grip. [...]
Practice makes perfect when it comes to wedding speeches. Now, that doesn’t mean that you have to go crazy and practice 15 times, but it does mean that you should practice your wedding speech, out loud, in front of someone else (your best man?) at least once. Add to that two practice runs on your [...]
This week we’re giving some tips for grooms on making their wedding speech or a toast. We’re focusing this week on what it takes to make a great wedding speech (or a least a good one that you survive intact.) The most important thing you can do is to write your wedding speech down on [...]
In a recent question to our Wedding Chick, a prospective groom let us know that he had nine or ten groomsmen lined up. You read it here first, guys. Now, that’s an incredible number of groomsmen. It’s like three grooms getting married. Think of the possibilities. With nine or ten groomsmen you could field:
Five on [...]
Grooms everywhere: we’ve been getting a lot of questions to our “wedding chick” over the past couple of weeks. Our wedding chick gives the straight goods on wedding-related questions - everything from strained relations with in-laws and brides to groomsmen gifts. (And we get a lot of questions on groomsmen gifts - recently one groom wanted [...]