A Stag Do in a Nutshell
Well that’s a perfectly good question… if you’re from Mozambique.
In the UK we all know that as a man before you get married you get a
chance to say a fond farewell to all your mates. It’s not because you are not
going to see them again but you kind of know that things are never going to be
the same again.
In other words next step, Fatherhood.
In this very modern world there will be loads of exceptions and
maybe this is an old fashioned explanation, because in the old days you didn’t
live with your wife until you got married, so the next step after getting
married really was fatherhood and family life.
These days a lot of couples live together before they get married
and some have children, so getting hitched won’t actually change many things,
but this still doesn’t mean you can’t have a stag do, oh no.
Stag Dos are a way of celebrating with your old and new chums and is
really part of the whole wedding.
So a stag do in my mind is now part of the wedding and should not
really be referred to as a pre wedding event. Just like when you go for suit
fittings, reading of bans and the actual rehearsal, the stag do is part of the
wedding.
Whether you go for a drink down the local boozer, hire a house in
the middle of nowhere, go to Las Vegas for a week or go on an adventure stag
weekend you still have that ancestral need to celebrate with your mates before
getting married, just like your dad did, and his dad and his dad and so on.
And by the way, a stag do dates back way, way before hen parties
jumped on the band wagon and started celebrating.
Apparently in 5 BC the ancient Spartans believed to have a dinner in
the Grooms honour, making toasts on his behalf. I think I read somewhere that
Vikings would celebrate the night before the wedding day with a meal and a
barrel of grog, I bet that was some night!
Even Henry VIII had a few stag nights (after all, he did get married
6 times) and if you turned down his invitation to the stag do he would knock
your block off (literally).
I don’t think he would have enjoyed a stag prank, unless they were
on one of the stag party members, it would have been quite a tense night with
the worry of getting too drunk and finding yourself in the gallows in the
morning after telling him what a git he was.
These days people talk about having the best stag do, better than
the last, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s good to evolve and a little
competition doesn’t hurt anyone.
For loads of stag do ideas, get yourself over to the DesignaVenture website.
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