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Engagement Rings

When and How to Buy an Engagement Ring

April 7th, 2010 in The Engagement Guide by About Grooms

The engagement ring, usually a diamond, is the visible sign of your commitment to each other.  You can slip one on her finger after she’s given you the nod at the proposal, or you can wait a few months while the two of you shop together for a style and size she adores.  If you [...]

Wedding Engagement Etiquette

Wedding Engagement Etiquette

April 7th, 2010 in The Engagement Guide by About Grooms

The “engagement,” or rather your engagement, refers to a period of time between the marriage proposal and the wedding. It can be long, short, or something in between. Usually, because of planning considerations for the wedding, the engagement lasts six to eight months. Engagements as long as a year (or longer) are rare, but some [...]

Planning Your Wedding Budget

Planning Your Wedding Budget

April 7th, 2010 in Weddings 101 by About Grooms

Money
Weddings cost money. Even if you’re only going to get married by a notary public, you have to buy a marriage license and pay the notary a fee. Few couples go that route because most want some kind of ceremony to commemorate their union as man and wife.  Weddings can be very expensive or [...]

Paying For Your Wedding

Who Should Pay For The Wedding

April 7th, 2010 in Weddings 101 by About Grooms

Who Pays for What?
Weddings and marriage are chock full of traditions. The following is a short list of who foots the bill for certain aspects of a wedding. Bear in mind, however, that in practice it often makes sense to stray from tradition, particularly if an expense would be a financial burden to a certain [...]

Groom Expectations

Groom Expectations

April 7th, 2010 in The Groom Shrine by About Grooms

You will be shocked to find that the mere fact of having become engaged to your former girlfriend, now fiancee’, has overnight created a tangled jungle of whole new expectations of you and your behavior.  You won’t always know what those expectations are/were until you have “disappointed” someone.  Many of these expectations might seem to [...]

Groomsmen

How To Choose Your Best Man and Groomsmen

February 6th, 2010 in The Groom Shrine by About Grooms

The choices of Best Man and Groomsmen are usually natural “no-brainers,” because these guys are your best buddies.  The choice of a Best Man gets tricky if you’ve got a brother who assumes he should be the Best Man, but you’d really rather choose a close friend.  Keep in mind that the Best Man has [...]

Popping The Question

When And How To Pop The Question

February 6th, 2010 in The Engagement Guide by About Grooms

The Wedding Proposal (An Offer She Can’t Resist?)
The proposal refers to the official utterance of those magic words, “Will you marry me?”  Proposals come in all shapes and sizes, have occurred under every conceivable circumstance, and in every locale (i.e., sky diving, in the back of an ambulance, on horseback, while spelunking, scuba diving …you [...]

Wedding Tutorial

Your Wedding Tutorial and Toolkit

February 6th, 2010 in Weddings 101 by About Grooms

Ever wonder why women of all ages cry at weddings?  You are about to find out.
You have proposed, your girlfriend is now your fiancee’ and you are planning a wedding. Sh-t, hot dawg, go figure:  “I’m engaged!”  This is pretty cool, you think.  Everybody’s happy, I’m happy, this wasn’t so hard.  A kind of warm [...]