The Grooms Guide

Many grooms are not sure where to start when it comes to planning the big day. Once the question is popped things just seem to fly out of their control. Can they help? Should they help? Are they supposed to help? A thousand books delineate the minutiae of wedding planning for the bride, the bride's family and just about everybody else involved - but the groom? Full of wisdom, humour and extremely practical advice, The Groom's Guide fills a big gap in the market with tips on everything from budgeting and etiquette to auditioning the band and finding the right wine.

Enjoy a stress-free wedding and discover all that is required of a groom on the big day with The Everything Groom Book. Without question, you love your bride-to-be and want to spend the rest of your life with her. Ever since you popped the question, however, she’s seemed somewhat different—more anxious, more neurotic, and more fixated on the “little things” like flowers, bridal registry china, and why the bridesmaids hate their dresses. Before you head for the back door, take a deep breath—help is on the way. The Everything Groom Book is here to help you keep your sanity while your fiancé loses hers. Get no-nonsense advice on how to: -Handle the emotional roller coaster -Choose a wedding location and date -Narrow down the guest list -Know when to give your opinion—and when to hold back -Smooth over disagreements From timing the engagement to enjoying your honeymoon, The Everything Groom Book is your ticket to a hassle-free wedding.

A fashion guide for grooms. Providing insight on the apparel selection process, how to master the look and how to save money in the process. All provided by a professional wardrobe stylist with fifteen years in the fashion industry.

Written by the co-founder of The Man Registry®, a highly popular site visited by millions of grooms and grooms-to-be each year. Be the Man is an irreverent, yet highly-informative guide that will help grooms get through all of the big decisions and obstacles that they'll be faced with leading up to, during, and after the Big Day. In addition to tons of practical advice, peppered throughout the book will be numerous lighthearted stories helping readers learn from the insight and missteps of the grooms who came before them.

A go-to wedding resource for anyone who'd classify themselves as groom or groom-adjacent. The Groom's Guide gives grooms and groomsmen the tools they need to make their wedding one of the best days of their lives and look damn good while doing it.

At Last! A Comprehensive Guide to Good Grooming Gone are the days when you could sit back and let your fiancée plan the entire wedding. Today’s grooms have countless tasks to perform, from hiring the entertainment and planning the rehearsal dinner to buying the wedding bands and comforting hysterical family members. Fortunately, The Groom’s Instruction Manual is here to answer all of your most challenging questions: How do I handle feuding relatives? What should I look for in a good wedding photographer? Why does my fiancée seem stressed out all the time? Whatever your concerns, you’ll find the answers here—courtesy of author and veteran groom Shandon Fowler.

The ultimate survival guide for bewildered husbands-to-be covers everything grooms need to know about legal issues, selecting a best man and ushers, donning a tuxedo, planning a honeymoon, choosing a first home, and adjusting to marital life.

Death Below Deck Jim and Lee are in their kayaks exploring a boat graveyard in the San Diego Bay, when they decide to board an old wooden schooner that's sitting on the bottom in shallow water. The schooner is listing badly with most of its' hull exposed. With flashlights in hand they go below deck and make their way aft along a passageway. They come across a gaping hole in the deck where the boards have rotted away. Shining their flashlights down into the darkness they discover a horrific crime scene. One so terrible, it turns the stomachs of the police chief and the two hardened homicide detectives assigned to the case. The investigation eventually leads to an international manhunt. Dos Cabezas Two guys embark on a weekend trip to the desert in search of an oasis with giant palm trees. It's rumored to be located in an area called Corrizo Gorge, which is one hundred miles due east of San Diego. Just before daybreak they stop to have breakfast in the small desert town of Ocotillo. The only people in the restaurant at that early hour are the sheriff and the elderly woman proprietor. The sheriff is more than happy to give them directions to Corrizo Gorge. Upon the sheriff leaving, the proprietor informs them that Corrizo Gorge is located on sacred Indian land, and rumored to be protected by their Gods. She also enlightens them about several accidents that happened there that cost people their lives. She was hoping this information would discourage them from venturing into the Gorge, but they fail to pick up on what she was trying to get across to them. Upon entering Corrizo Gorge, their worst nightmare begins to unfold.

This book is for any couple—same or opposite sex—seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. No “new normal” here—this guide emboldens you to harness your unique, brazen, queer truth; to be creative; and to plan your wedding your way. Every fiancé faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O’Connell reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives. As a psychotherapist, O’Connell offers ideas to bridge relational gaps with your partner, family, and friends. As a professional actor, he also offers insight into the ways your wedding is a theatrical production and how this can help you to conceptualize the event, consolidate your efforts, and increase creative collaboration as a couple. This will serve you not only on your big day, but also for the rest of your time together. Whether we’re straight, gay, or other, weddings inspire us to carve out more fun, freedom, recognition, life space, love space, and connubial space than we’ve ever had before.