Groomsmen Origin Stories

Scottish Weddings: Costs, Customs and Creeling


Today, it can be a bit of an expense to be invited to join the wedding party. First, there’s travel to and fro not to mention a place to crash, renting a tux, purchasing a gift for the groom and other incidentals – man oh man, the groom better be getting his buds a couple awesome groomsmen gifts! However, today’s groomsmen have it pretty easy compared to just being invited to a wedding as a guest (not even a stand up position) back in Scotland centuries ago. Every guest expected to bring his own food to the celebration, pay for the entertainment, and also bring the requisite gift

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Choosing Your Groomsmen

Now that you’ve popped the question and wedding plans are under way, it’s time to start thinking about who you’d like to be your best man and ushers. Selecting the family and friends you want to support on your big day is an important decision as you’ll be building memories that will be shared with everyone until death do you part. A memorable way to ask your friends and family is to present them with unique groomsmen gifts enclosed with a note asking for the special request

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Groomsmen Mindtricks: Show them the Way of the Cufflink

You want to give your groomsmen some flair on your wedding day, and personalized cufflinks as groomsmen gifts is a great place to start. The simple styling pops with a classic tuxedo, and the cufflinks themselves make fantastic keepsakes for years to come.

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The Money Dance is Weird, Right?

The money dance is totally funky. If you haven't been to many international weddings, you'd think this is the closest the bride ever felt to being a stripper. Sweaty men pinning globs of fives to her shoulder straps. It's what every bride dreams about for her wedding!

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The Threshold of Love: Why the Groom Carries the Bride

As a groom, it is your right - nay, your duty as a newlywed to carry your bride over the threshold. If you ranked the top masculine moments of your life, scooping up your woman and whisking her into your new home will just barely beat out the time you shared cigars and scotch with your bros after presenting them personalized humidors as groomsmen gifts. Carrying your bride over the threshold is your debonair moment of the decade.

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Is Seeing the Bride Before the Wedding Bad Luck?

In today's times, a bride and groom start seeing each other well before marriage plans. You've probably been dating each other for years and maybe even live in the same...

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Origin of the Diamond Engagement Ring

Most of our GroomStand wedding origin stories don't come from the cheeriest of backgrounds. Let's face it, the deep roots of marriage are more sexist than Roger Sterling from Mad Men. But when it comes to the engagement ring, you already know it's us guys getting the raw end of the deal.

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Origin Story of the Monogram

There is something about a personalized gift that gives it a special feeling. It's like declaring to the world, "Only one man can enjoy the sweet nectar of fermented barley...

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Origin story of Why the Groom Stands to the Right at the Altar

People have been getting married for over a thousand years, and one of the hard and fast rules of all time is where the bride and groom stand at a...

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The Bachelor Party Through the Years

The crazy thing about bachelor parties is that we all know it's a rite of passage, but we just make it up as we go along. We know it's a...

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The Origin of Jumping Out of the Cake

One of the all-time best gifts to the groom during the bachelor party is the sexy lady jumping out of the cake. Cake is good. A hot stripper is good....

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The Origin of Smashing the Wedding Cake

It's arguable that after all the grief and torment the bride puts everyone through leading up to a wedding, there is no better groomsmen gift than seeing her face being...

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The Origin of the Honeymoon

The hands-down, numero uno, best part of a wedding has got to be leaving for the honeymoon. All the planning is finally freaking over, and most importantly, your awesome groomsmen...

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The Origin of Why Groomsmen Dress Like the Groom

GroomStand knows that you care what you look like on your wedding day. The last think you want to do is look like a jackass in a cream-colored ruffled shirt....

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The Role of the Original Groomsmen

Nowadays, groomsmen are a set piece to the modern day wedding. Not only do they represent the unbreakable bonds of friendship and family that made the groom who he is...

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Worst Backhanded Compliments to the Bride

"It's not awkward, unless we let it be awkward," is not an awesome explanation you want coming out of your groomsmen. We all have good intentions when we say those...

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When in Rome - Ancient Wedding Traditions

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They say ‘when in Rome, do as the Romans do,’ and we’re all for that, especially when it comes to eating gelato and watching gladiators battle each other. But, when it comes to wedding rituals, we’re not so sure that we want to mimic some of the unusual goings-on that took place before, during, and after the marriage ceremony in this ancient civilization. It seems like every culture has its strange wedding customs, and here are the weirdest I found for the ancient Romans.

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Best Man Duties on the Wedding Day

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While being the Best Man isn’t necessarily a hard job by any means, there are a few responsibilities a guy needs to follow through with in order to keep the title bestowed upon him after the wedding. No groom wants in the hard position of having to demote his Best Man for failing to live up to the minimal “must-dos.” 

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