Are you having enough trouble just remembering to get your groomsmen gifts? Well it turns out that before you make it to the altar, you have a much longer list of things to accomplish than just that. We asked everyone from single guys to married women for their advice on what to do before you get married, and compiled an exhaustive list of everything that needs to happen before you tie the knot. Get ready, guys! Before you start checking off this list, shop for personalized groomsmen gifts at GroomStand.com.
Go over health insurance information, legal papers and will.
Buy a wedding ring
Choose a best man
Pay off as much credit card debt and student loans as possible.
Become well liked by her family and friends.
Hang out with your boys
Talk about kids.
Talk about future finances.
Talk about family
Go diving
Go Skydiving
Go SCUBA diving
Have a wild time out on the town without your spouse to be.
Begin pulling away from the friends you tend to spend most of your time with because you will need the additional time with your new spouse for a healthy solid marriage.
Start thinking like a married person. Singles can be very self-centered because they are used to living by themselves, eating by themselves, choosing what they want to watch on TV, and when they want to go to bed. Marriage means you will need to take into consideration the other person's wants, desires and needs. So you might as well start practicing early.
Rehearse proposal
Clean the diamond
Cook dinner for the future in-laws.
Do something ridiculous like skydive or bungee jump. 79. Have sex with 50 other girls
Find the one woman in your life that meant the most to you before you started dating your future wife, and make sure you're not still in love or have any "special feelings"
Find out if your fiancee has any debt that you may be inheriting by marrying her.
Find out if she is on any medication for a mental illness or has ever been hospitalized for a mental disorder.
Listen to everyone if they are all saying you should not marry this woman even if you have already sent out invitations and made other financial commitments.
Go on a camping trip with your prospective bride, one without electricity or water, and in a location where cell phones don't work, then see how well you get along.
Revisit all of the sports you like to personally do, or watch and see if she minds you playing or watching them.
Write a list with her about pros and cons of marriage and see how you two match up.
Enjoy your life...
Figure out what your fiance wants to do before that time and help her.
Meet with the officiant
Have a fling
Buy a special wedding day gift for your new spouse
Purchase a tux; you'll love owning one and the rentals are universally awful and ill-fitting.
Establish whether and when you will have children.
Hang out with your single friends.
Remember to ask permission from the in-laws if you didn't do it before.
Find a caterer
Prepare your vows.
Go on a week long bender
Buy a motorbike
Discuss future career, education, and moving plans
Get life insurance
Make sure you're going to live in another town as the in-laws
Tell all the other girls you're seeing it's over...at least for some time
Make all your ex-girlfriends jealous
Kill your soon-to-be mother-in-law
Experience a threesome
Travel to Australian Outback
Buy your dream item (ie: a Hummer)
Tell your families and friends that you got engaged
Dating
Kissing
Flirt with others
Have sex with another woman.
Travel somewhere without the future wife.
Discuss religion of kids w/ future spouse, if relevant
Discuss who will be paying for wedding, if relevant
Make sure that ALL of your previous relationships have closure so that none of your former girlfriends come back to haunt you later.
Make sure that you're okay being with this same woman for the rest of your life...even when she begins looking like her mom!
Open an account in a Cayman Island bank and stash a good percentage of your net worth there (and continue to do so even after your married).
Watch as much football as you can...you know you ain't going to once she owns "half" the remote.
Do all those activities your future partner loathes, in excess
Be a slovenly selfish pig in your own home, because it will never be acceptable to be so gross ever again!
Start a joint checking account
Experience any sexual fantasies you may have
Return ring and be forced to buy the "right" ring.
Listen to everything she tells you about the wedding arrangements, else, no wedding.
Have a one on one talk with her parents.
Make sure you're sexually compatible before dedicating the rest of your life to her.
Prepare a speech... don't wing it.
Agree that you will be combining your finances when you are married - the number one cause of divorce in North America is money fights and money problems.
Don't get caught up in how expensive and extravagant your wedding has to be - smaller weddings are much easier and often less stressful!
Identify any relationship problems before you get married - remember, you have to live with this person for many years to come! Sure, counseling may help, but it's better if you really have a healthy relationship.
Get the haircut you always wanted.
Take a crash course on how to do house cleaning.
Inform your buddies not to prank call your phone number while drunk in the early morning anymore.
Select your groomsmen.
See at least one more naked woman (see nothing else).
Give her your list of wedding invitees immediately and don't add or subtract from it - ever.
Talk to married friends about their experiences - find out what to expect in marriage.
Keep focused on each other so that you keep your sanity
Listen for problem signs (ie. friends saying that she's not right, family, etc)
Visit New York City
Snowboard the Alps
Play all the video games you own again, because you won't get to again.
Make sure your rings fit each other BEFORE going to the altar
Pay off the ring.
Think once
Think twice
Think thrice
Buy yourself something that's as expensive as that damn engagement ring was. It'll be your last chance!
Change your cell phone number so ex-girlfriends don't call you.
Visit far off relatives and personally invite them to the wedding.
Go by yourself to the movies.
Dance with a stranger.
Hire a wedding planner.
Go out on dates--it's important during this stressful time!
Play golf.
Buy a large supply of condoms
Pick out which of your things you're willing to get rid of and which you've got to keep. It's a partnership, you won't get to keep everything she hates, but if you're smart, you don't have to get rid of all of it.
Make peace with an old girlfriend
Practice taking care of a baby for a day
Make sure you have your own place... NO ROOMMATES!!
Move out of your parent's house.
Save $1500 for a rainy day.
Find out how the other person deals with having a bad day.
Get a lap dance
Keep your bride sane during the wedding planning. These things make people nuts, be a rock.
Book flowers to be delivered for the day of the wedding to your bride to be
Clean up your wardrobe and your life to make place for her
Approve the cake for the wedding
Spend an entire day on the couch in your pajamas.
Call an ex-girlfriend - to remind you of all of your faults, so you can improve on them.
Come to the realization that no matter how much you improve - it is never enough.
