Grooms Gifts

This is a guest post from a Blogging Groom.

There are a lot of sites and resources for ladies when it comes to getting married. And rightfully so, the gals are the ones who usually plan the vast majority of the wedding. It’s usually the man’s job to purpose, help out when needed and finally show up on the day of the wedding and not to screw it up.

Pretty simple right?

While there is undoubtedly a lot more pressure on the ladies then the men, there still is an enormous amount of pressure. Today, I want to help take some of that pressure off by talking about groomsmen gifts. This one can be tricky, it’s pretty rare that all three or four of them have the same interests and hobbies. The first trick is to find a topic that you know all of them will enjoy. I knew I had to come out with something that was good, without blowing the budget! These are the same guys that organized a trip half way across the world for me, managed to wrangle up 17 of my closest friends and had everyone chip in to cover all the expenses. A guy couldn’t have asked for a better bachelor party, and now I wanted to make sure they had a good time at the wedding.

Suggestions for Gifts

As I mentioned, the key to any good gift is trying to figure out what they all like. You can get each of them a different gift but it just doesn’t have the same effect. So I started brain storming, what do we all do together. We golf, we play on several baseball teams, we all love hockey, we all enjoy whiskey and the list goes on.

I decided to get them all customized softball bats. That was a good start but not exactly the be all and end all. From there, I thought I could class those fellas up with some nice cufflinks. The kicker, they would be their favorite sports teams. My one friend got LA Kings links, another got the Bluejays and another got Maple Leafs cufflinks.

Some other ideas that ran through my head, matching SAXX underwear. If you’ve ever worn SAXX you know they’re the most comfortable thing out there. Plus then we could say we were all wearing the same Freshies.

I contemplated getting them black high class sneakers to wear as opposed to the standard dress shoes. I thought that’d be a great idea but the wife actually vetoed it. Not sure why, but it seemed like an awesome idea.

A customized flask of whisky filled with our favorite scotch is always a hit (assuming everyone drinks!) I know the fellas would’ve loved that while they were hanging onto dear life as the photographer snapped the 10,842nd picture.

The key to a good gift is making sure it’s personalized. You should know these guys better then almost anyone on the planet, your job shouldn’t be that hard.