gibingus

i've done the best man trip so many times that i now decline the honor. i'm also married myself now, and by the time it came to my wedding, we opted to skip the whole attendants thing completely and i didn't even want a bachelor party for myself. we all just went drinking and caught up with all the old friends who came to town.

but that party pooping aside, here's what i learned in throwing many bachelor send offs. btw, majik_6's list should be considered law. obide by it.

everything depends on how many people you're having, and how much all of them are willing to pony up. you also need to have an idea of if the groom to be is up for going all the way. good hookers are expensive and can blow your whole budget, nasty hookers are nasty and risky, and hookups can go really ugly.

I reccomend against the private stripper route if you are a first time host. You pretty much end up with a sausage fest with a bunch of cross-eyed dudes and one chick who is closely guarded by her handler. The odds and ratio can make things uncomfortable or dull. I had pretty good luck setting up a girl on girl show once, though. Two dancers then can deal with the room better. There were about ten guys involved on that one.

If you have some minors involved, though, a cheap stripper and keg at someone's pad is the traditional route, albeit kind of sad. I had better luck getting a band and a bunch of kegs and buying a bunch of mardi gras beads and really putting the word out for a huge turnout. chicks flashed, so there were plenty of tits involved.

For your first time, it's better to hit a club, and there is a lot of talent in Houston, as mentioned above. We once got some dancers to come back to the bachelor pad with when we closed a strip joint down, which led to a pretty wild night, but that was at a smaller strip joint with hometown talent. Call around and let the management know you are coming, they might offer you a package and you might find out in a very round about way how friendly the girls are.

You should always schedule some above board activities, if only so guys have legitimate cover stories. we once played paintball all day, that kind of thing. i've always had good luck with sporting events. get a club or luxury box and rage at the game and then take off in a limo for a circus of the bars that ends up at a strip joint. you can then pick up chicks along the way who are up for partying. I cannot stress this enough, pick up chicks who are not strippers and provide pick up opportunities... the groom is going off the market, so it's fun to let him go shopping one last time. he doesn't have to buy anything off the rack, but chicks love to flirt with guys who are getting married.

gambling is also fun. you can get a package deal for a vegas weekend in a matter of seconds that will only cost the attendees a few hundred bucks each for kick ass hotel suite and airfare and food and booze is cheap. and the town has some of the best strip clubs in the country (along with houston and atlanta). i went this route with a group of four really tight buddies and we had an awesome time.

You're also right around the corner from New Orleans, that's a no brainer. Hit the gambling boats on the way over and get a kick ass room in the heart of the french quarter. You're guaranteed a good time no matter what happens after that.

one more thing, don't bring your plastic. drunken charging is dangerous. and no cameras. if anyone brings them, break them. leave only footprints, take only memories. and don't forget the cigars.

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