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Bridal Party Outing

Weddings are a stressful time. Some of this stress is caused by the wedding party not knowing each other. In order to overcome this problem, couples in France in the 1860s started visiting bars with their party. These outings had an additional benefit of being an opportunity for the bride and groom to go out one last time as singles.

The tradition saw waning support after the Duke of Edmonton was left by his bride-to-be for one of the attendants at the outing. Duke Freisel made a number of public statements about that events that subdued their popularity until recently.

Be it due to the cultural propensity of the generation y to revive old traditions or just the fact that outings have been shown to make for better weddings, the Bridal Party Outings have recently been making a comeback.

Today's youth have modified the tradition slightly with the addition of "games" that are customarily associated with the outings. One such game is a drinking contest between the Best Man and the Maid of Honor. The drinks are measured to be proportional to the weights of the two individuals. For example, if the Best Man is 165 lbs and the Maid of Honor is 130, then Best Man's drinks will be 1.25 times stronger than the Maid of Honors. The belief is that if the best man wins, the man will wear the pants in the relationship, and the opposite is true if the Maid of Honor wins.

Other games that are more in line with the roots of the tradition include just about any group drinking game. The whole idea is to garner as much group interaction.

It is not advised that this tradition be followed for morning weddings, a wedding party with a hangover is not a pleasant thing. It is acceptable to substitute the party like event for a simple outing to grab a drink and a bite to eat. This style of outing was more prevalent in the French regions as opposed to the much more lush parties of the Germanic, Slavic, and Irish regions.