Stuff Every Groom Should Know

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ENGAGEMENT STUFF
Choosing the Ring
Popping the Question
Six Questions Everyone’s Going to Start Asking You
The Name Game
Ten Things That Are Definitely Going to Change After Marriage
Five Things That Definitely Won’t Change After Marriage

WEDDING PLANNING STUFF
It’s Only One Day: Keeping Perspective
A Guide to All the People Who Will Help You Pull This Off
How to Budget for a Wedding
How to Have a Wedding on the (Relatively) Cheap
Location, Location, Location
How to Write a Guest List
How to Make a Seating Chart
How to Choose the Best Best Man
Wedding Bands
How to Pick the Perfect Tux
A Head-to-Toe Glossary of Tuxedo Terms
Regarding Gift Registries
Regarding Religious Traditions
How to Choose an Officiant
How to Write Your Own Vows
Wedding Food (and Drink)
How to Pick Your Wedding Music
Wedding Playlist Cheat Sheet
How to Give Your Mom (and Your Fiancée’s Mom) Her Say
How to Survive Your Bachelor Party
Ten Things to Do the Night Before

WEDDING DAY STUFF
How to Melt Cold Feet
Tips for the Well-Groomed Groom
Nine Things Every Groom Needs in His (or His Best Man’s) Pocket
How to Cry Manfully
How to Rock Your Wedding Photos
How to Meet and Greet All Those Strangers
How to Nail the First Dance Day-Of
Problems That Will Inevitably Arise—and How to Deal
Your Drunk College Friends and You
Your Lovely New Wife
Regarding the Wedding Night
You Really Are Ready for This

AFTER-WEDDING STUFF
Read This Stuff Before the Wedding
How to Plan (and Budget for) a Honeymoon
How to Write Thank-You Notes
Six More Questions Everyone’s Going to Start Asking You
How to Have Good (Married) Sex
How to Say You’re Sorry
Ten (or So) Small but Essential Courtesies

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS