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Hen parties, how, why and when did these become so popular?
Jol44
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Hen parties, how, why and when did these become so popular?
I'd only ever heard of stag parties when I was younger. Today I'd say hen nights are much more pronounced than stag nights.
I'd only ever heard of stag parties when I was younger. Today I'd say hen nights are much more pronounced than stag nights.
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You don't agree with what it stands for but you don't actually know what it stands for?
Well, the first book on planning bachelorette parties wasn't published until 1998 according to Wiki.
Nowdays is seems anything less than a week in Ibiza with a grand a head spenfing money is considered low key
I have no issue with the big weekend away / international trip hen parties in principle, but if the bride-to-be gets all offended because friends can't make it due to finances/childcare/work etc. then I think she needs to get over herself.
Sounds American to me.
Does the average salaciously inclined woman really need to read a book on how to get drunk and behave outrageously?
Thank God I didn't feel the need to hold a hen night when I got married, I don't think I could have coped with the hassle, let alone the expense!
I agree with that- see my earlier post. The cost is mad. If I were ever to get married I wouldn't have one that's for sure.
You cared enough to open the thread and post your helpful contribution.
And several other people have posted since.
Happy to help.
That would apply to stag nights too.
If I got married I'd rather have a quieter gathering over a hen night....am I just really boring?
Imo many women on hen nights try too hard. Perhaps they try to outdo males in this regard (or what they imagine males to be doing). For example getting blind drunk and having a stripper turn up. Usually pretty harmless I suppose. I've always found it a bit seedy tbh when some girl gets her clothes off like that, but that's just me. As women often remind us, when men get a stripper it's seedy, pervy, and sad. But when women get a stripper it's just a laugh. I'm told when women leer and grab strippers it's done in a way that is errrr not seedy or pervy at all! I made the fatal error once of telling my wife that I ended up in a strip joint on a stag night. No big deal I thought, she had done the same previously. Sixteen years later and she still hasn't let it go. Women - bless 'em.
When did people get to be all about spending so much money on everything? It's pure insanity to me. I hate how nothing is "allowed" to be simple or understated anymore.