Okay in my search for things for the Grooms I found this site called "The Plunge" www.theplunge.com built especially for you guessed it Grooms. What I found I thought was hilarious...not the type of wedding timeline I would put togther but......for kicks and giggles I reposted it just for the fun of it.
Instead, we've streamlined the wedding planning checklist to focus only on the things that you actually need to care about.
- Have as much meaningless sex as possible.
- Drink an unhealthy quantity of alcohol.
- Spend more time with your buddies than family or girlfriends.
- Care more about fantasy football than a relationship.
- Have at least one pregnancy scare.
- Have a serious girlfriend.
- Break up with her in a spectacularly irresponsible, immature fashion.
- Start to feel like maybe, kinda, don't-tell-anyone, maybe you should settle down and find the right girl.
- Meet your fiancée.
- Think that okay, maybe it wouldn't suck so bad if you were in a long-term, serious relationship with her.
- Rethink that last point. Damn. Maybe you're not ready? Go back and forth.
- Meet her parents.
- Move in with her. Wonder how that differs from marriage. Wonder how that differs from marriage.
- Push off her engagement ultimatum.
- Finally, after hemming and hawing, decide that what the hell, she's the one.
- Save up for an engagement ring. Figure out how much to spend.
- Buy the engagement ring.
- Ask her father for permission...Or not.
- Plan your wedding proposal.
- Pop the question.
- Announce your proposal to the world.
- Fantasize about eloping.
- Negotiate the length of your engagement.
- Figure out your role in the wedding and the groom's responsibilities.
- Understand how wedding porn is corrupting your bride.
- Suffer through an engagement party.
- Start planning the wedding guest list.
- Begin planning the wedding budget.
- Approach the parents about awkward money stuff.
- Ensure she doesn't set the wedding date on Super Bowl Sunday.
- Seriously consider a destination wedding.
- Pick your best man and groomsmen.
- Find ways to tighten the wedding budget.
- Start planning your honeymoon.
- Complete your wedding registry.
- Make the tough guest list decisions.
- Pay just a little, little bit of attention to the wedding reception venue selection.
- Sign up for dance classes. Start practicing.
- Pick a DJ/band for the wedding reception.
- Be thankful you're not your fiancée who has to deal with much, much more detailed junk.
- Purchase your wedding bands.
- Help your parents plan the rehearsal dinner.
- Embellish like hell: submit a wedding announcement to The New York Times.
- Knock out the marriage license.
- Taste the wedding cake.
- Buy (yes, buy) your tux.
- Make sure the groomsmen have taken care of their formal wear.
- Handle the wedding day transportation.
- Attend your bachelor party.
- Buy gifts for the groomsmen.
- Buy a gift for your bride.
- Understand the marriage tax consequences.
- Call/confirm any guests from your side of the family.
- Perfect your moves for the first dance.
- Prepare your rehearsal dinner and wedding night speeches.
- Write your wedding vows.
- Give the DJ/band song instructions.
- Pick up formal wear.
- Get your hair cut.
- Confirm transportation.
- Check on logistics for your family's share of out-of-town guests.
- Keep plenty of cash on you for emergencies.
- Practice vows.
- Confirm honeymoon logistics.
- Start packing for honeymoon.
- Give marriage license to officiant.
- Give gifts to groomsmen.
- Attend the rehearsal dinner.
- Stay sober. (But just in case, learn how to fight the hangover.)
- Warm your cold feet.
- Give rings to best man.
- Goof off and relax with your buddies. Seriously.
- Get married. Compared to everything else, the wedding ceremony will be quick and painless.
- Don't blow it in the bedroom. Have mind-blowing wedding night sex.
- Recuperate on your honeymoon.
- Help with wedding thank you notes.
- Overcome post-wedding stress.
- Don't get your bride pregnant.