The Complete Best Man Guide
Congratulations, you've been give the job of best man. What an honour!
We have created the ultimate Best Man Guide to save you time and hassle. Full of all the stag party planning tips and guides for your best man duties and speeches. So take the pressure off your shoulders, grab a brew and have a read through all the games, ideas and hilarious pranks to make you the greatest best man of all time!
Jump to these sections:
The Stag Do Essentials
Best Man Tips & Advice
Must Have & Do
What is a Best Man?
Although everyone knows of someone who has been a best man, does anyone actually know what a best man is? In short, the best man is the grooms right hand and his confidant throughout the whole of the wedding process and is responsible for a number of different roles and duties that must be carried out before, during and after the wedding. Anything the groom needs, he goes to the best man to help him sort or figure it out.
What Does the Best Man Do?
There are a variety of different things that the best man does throughout the engagement, wedding and post wedding.
- Get the stag night sorted
- Assist the groomsmen with suits
- Create an epic best man speech
- Making sure the bride is okay on the wedding is also important, as the groom will be speaking to family
- Stand next to the groom throughout the wedding ceremony
- Maybe crack a few mother-in-law jokes
- Keep the ushers in their place
- Be a supportive friend
- Sign the marriage certificates as witness
- And of course the most important part, be there for all the photos that will be taken
Become the Ultimate Planner
So, your oldest friend has just told you that for his wedding, you’re going to be the best man – now what? The excitement is real, the event thoughts are already circling in your head but you're finding it hard to get started with the stag do planning.
From deciding which fun stag activities, to considering everyone’s budget and where you’ll all stay after a heavy night of drinking. The panic can creep in when you feel like you’ve forgotten something important, but that’s where we come in.
The Funktion Events team have a combined 30+ years of experience helping lads organise stag do weekends. We’ve sent groups as big as 50 all over the UK and abroad to many European cities, keeping the everyone safe and having fun.
We’ll sort the big stuff, giving you extra time to browse through our best man guide and sort out all the little extras like accessories and stag do games. Find out how to stay safe on the stag do with these helpful tips.
Use our free pages and downloads to get all the guys belly-laughing for the entire weekend.