Posts Tagged ‘grooms’
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Before you even think about the wedding day you need to make sure you have a partner to share the day with and that means a proposal somewhere along the line, whether it is from the groom or bride to be. The proposal is a theme of lots of scenes in films, something that people talk about to their children and grandchildren and a scenario that lots of women imagine when they are in a serious relationship. We consulted the experts in this field to see if there are any fail safe steps to securing a “Yes!”
“We are Daisy and Tiffany AKA The Proposers, and we are the UK’s first marriage proposal planners. The idea is that while there are plenty of people to help you plan your wedding, when it comes to popping the question, men don’t have anyone to turn to. We send a questionnaire to the man asking him about himself, his girlfriend and their relationship, and based on that we tailor two proposal ideas specifically to them. We also offer to co-ordinate it from start to finish and we negotiate for the best deals. People tell us their budget (whether it be £500 – £30,000) and we come up with ideas based on that. Although we are based in London we have arranged proposals in Ibiza, Switzerland, New York and even Malaysia as well as the UK. The best thing about the job is hearing about all of the ‘yes’s’ and getting involved with the excitement before the couples are engaged. It doesn’t feel like work at all. (We haven’t heard a NO yet!) We also get to work with some fantastic suppliers, wedding bloggers, wedding planners, photographers….We advise grooms to be to make their proposal as unique and personal as possible rather than just searching for ideas on the internet, as they don’t want it to be something that their girlfriend has already seen or heard about. See more about one of our ideas and watch the video here http://www.theproposers.co.uk/blog/a-bollywood-flash-mob-proposal-by-the-proposers/ “
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
Leading men’s formal hire wear company Cameron Ross has been awarded the highly coveted Best Groomswear Supplier award at the Wedding Ideas Awards 2013.
Nominated by readers of the leading magazine, Cameron Ross was honoured with Best Groomswear Collection in recognition of its enviable high quality range of garments and outstanding customer service. Decided by an esteemed panel of judges, the award was presented at a spectacular awards ceremony held at the prestigious Tower Hotel in London.
Adding to the groomswear supplier awards won over the course of 2012 at the Bridal Buyer Awards in March and the Retail Bridalwear Association Awards in September, this latest award marks the beginning of another year of strong performance for the brand, and affirms Cameron Ross’ valued reputation among industry peers, retailers and consumers alike, reinforcing its position at the forefront of men’s wedding attire.
Company Chairman Joe Freedman said, “There is certainly no better way to kick off 2013 than with an award and a fantastic ceremony! It’s an honour for us to receive this prize at the Wedding Ideas Awards as competition in our category was so strong. We were up against some of the best known brands in the industry and I’m very proud that a Scottish company has managed to fend off competition from across the UK. Being recognised for the quality of our formalwear and highlandwear collections and the customer service we deliver is hugely rewarding for us. Our team take a lot of pride in the quality and range of product we offer and to be credited in this way, by readers of Wedding Ideas and the panel of judges alike, provides real encouragement as we move into 2013.”
Cameron Ross is a leading supplier of men’s formal hire wear. With a network of over 250 outlets throughout the UK - and an innovative Outfit Builder feature integrated into online service - Cameron Ross provides its customers with an extensive range of formal hire wear for weddings and formal occasions.
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
Socks are not just for Christmas, socks are for life and stylish grooms may be interested in this new service from Socked. A wedding day is when most men really scrub up and make an effort when they are attending as a guest and push the boat out even more when they are the groom. That is fine for special occasions but some stylish touches and basics should be in place for everyday and that is where Socked comes in with its sock subscription service. Everyone knows about the phenomena of the missing sock where most people wear them in pairs and launder them in pairs but still end up with odd and missing socks, and it would be great to have new socks arriving regularly to make up the numbers without you having to shop for them.
Socked.co.uk provides a monthly black sock subscription service for discerning gentleman. Sirs can order in any colour they like as long as it is black. Socked.co.uk also provides tips on how you can become a gentleman, available for free on their website and are working on the world’s largest survey to find out what happens to missing socks.
Socked.co.uk also supports Movember and if you have left it late to start growing your own marvelous moustache you can download one of theirs here http://socked.co.uk/socked-supports-movemeber/
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
Getting hitched is still a life goal for the majority of bachelors – according to a new poll.
The survey, by online casino Roxy Palace asked the site’s single male members whether they intended getting married at some point in their life, which a vast majority (85%) stating they did. Almost two thirds (61%) said they were ‘keen’ to get married and a further 24% stating they would ‘seriously consider’ it if the right partner came along.
Less than one in six (15%) emerged as die hard bachelors vowing to remain unwed for the rest of their lives.
Interestingly, those polled said they believed the ideal age to marry was between 30 and 34, planning children at around the same time. And whilst single at the time of being quizzed it seems the majority of the men polled planned on taking married life seriously, with 92% stating they believed that it should be a lifelong commitment.
Four years was revealed as the average length of time a man would spend in a relationship before popping the question and a six month relationship was the minimum point for any respondent to consider a proposal, but all of those polled stated they would pop the question within nine years.
Interestingly, nearly all (93%) the bachelors said they would feel uncomfortable with being proposed to by their partner. One respondent said marriage was something he hoped for but just not in the near future. He said: “We all like to joke about being good with the ladies and never settling down but I think in reality most men want to find somebody they would be happy to tie the knot with. That said, it’s a big commitment and only one I would consider many years down the line.”
A spokesman from Roxy Palace said the results showed that traditional marriage values still remained amongst many single men. He said: “It seems the common belief is that men want to play the field and are terrified of any sort of long-term commitment but our research found the exact opposite, with the vast majority happy to settle down if they found the right person. The stereotype is that it is the woman who is itching to get married and our survey shows that chances are that the man is just as likely to want the same. We found that most men wanted to be into their early thirties before tying the knot, having been with their partner for around four years on average, which shows they’re keen to get it right first time and not rush the decision.”
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
With some warmer weather and some bank holidays coming up, lots of people are feeling a bit more cheerful, not just all of the spring brides. Our friends at Staggered are in a happy place and sent us this latest post….
Cynicism, pah! Cynicism went out with Keyboard Cat and saying “lol!” without meaning it. The new internet hotness is rabid enthusiasm about things and general swooning with delight. So, very much in this spirit, and fuelled by cheap caffeine, here’s five things that men absolutely love about weddings! SQUUUUEEAAAAAL!
1) Finger buffets
The finger buffet is a timeless catering roulette. It’s not up everyone’s street, but few aspects of catering are quite as adventurous. Is there egg on that sandwich? Are those crisps mixed? Will the couple have gone the extra mile and have fresh bacon sandwiches brought out at about 9ish?
2) Underage Boozing
Usual booze legalities don’t apply at weddings. Most of us had our first secretive beer at a wedding and there’s nothing quite as heart-warming as seeing an early teenager being sick in a pot plant. A wedding wouldn’t be a wedding without at least a few first time hangovers – welcome to the club kids!
3) Bells Ringing
If you want the sound of England, just fire up a few church bells. There’s genuinely fewer more triumphant, happier sounds than the echo of Church bells. If you’re having a civil wedding get some bell sounds piped in.
4) Blokes Obtaining The Football Scores
The perils of a Saturday afternoon wedding are of course, the inevitable football clash. Brides, be wary of passed around phones, unexpectedly helpful trips to fetch stuff from the car and inappropriate whisperings and mood swings. Just don’t jump up and shout “Yes!” during the vows.
5) Hats
Sadly the hat has recently become a much-maligned accessory limited to teenage Goths, Sunday drivers and that one bloke in the village who wears a trilby. Fortunately, a wedding allows for plenty of hat madness, as approved by Cilla Black.
BONUS: Uncles
Uncles exist in a vague shadowy world where they flit forever in-between weddings and christenings. At these events they will talk traffic with anyone who strays near enough. Usually good for a round at some point, but will go wildly off-list with a wedding present that you really don’t know what it is.
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
Our friends at Staggered are now attending our exhibitions with lots of helpful advice for grooms who can sometimes get overlooked when planning a wedding. They are hoping to redress the balance by finding out what grooms really want on their day and helping them to source the suppliers who can help them. Their latest post is here now…..
It turns out the final straw was the shoes. I was talking to a groom who rang quite out of the blue to rant at someone. We don’t get loads of calls at Staggered but if you’re canny you can find the telephone number on the site and we quite often have it on our emails and this one groom called Mark decided to call us.
Mark’s problem was shoes. He’d gone for a fitting for his wedding suit and the guy who was helping him get kitted-up had tutted about lending Mark some shoes. Naturally, this put Mark in a bad mood, “I knew trainers would look stupid with my suit but I just thought I could borrow a pair and when I asked he tutted. It was weird, it made me feel like I was being stupid.”
Now it could just be that Mark was unfortunate enough to come across a guy who was having a bad day. But it serves to illustrate how different the groom and the bride’s experiences of wedding planning can be. For a bride – getting her dress is an empowering, bonding and beautiful experience – for a groom getting the suit that he will wear on the most important day of his life he gets tutted at. Is that fair?
Clearly for legal reasons we couldn’t go with Mark’s initial request which was to write “***************** ARE *****” on the front page of Staggered but we agreed that it was time to do something about the situation facing the modern groom. Especially as this isn’t by any means an isolated incident.
We’re absolutely not saying that we want to cheat the bride of the wedding experience – we fully accept that it’s still the bride’s big day. What we think though is that a wedding is about celebrating the beginning of a partnership – and that begins with respecting both sides of the couple – the bride and the groom. If the wedding isn’t an inclusive and equal celebration then what does that say about the beginning of the important bit: the marriage?
Every month I am genuinely privileged to get to communicate with tens of thousands of men who are excited about their weddings, but many of them are reserved about communicating how they feel because they are made to feel that it’s somehow a bit weird that they’re excited. These men are committed, passionate, excited, emotional and engaged with their weddings and with their wives, they don’t approach weddings in the same way or get excited about the same things but it’s just as important to them as it is to the bride. Don’t take my word for it – go and read Dan’s blog and meet a modern groom for yourself. What they need is for people to accept that they are there and not try and work around them, tolerate them or worst of all dismiss them and their ideas.
On behalf of men like Mark and Dan we are asking the wedding industry as a whole to look at how they interact with grooms and appraise whether they could do more to engage with them. We’ve already had some great discussions with wedding fairs – many of whom are looking to increase their content for grooms in 2011 and that’s brilliant.
So if you run a wedding business we’d be very grateful if you’d take a look at this and accept our challenge to make 2011 the Year of the Groom.
Staggered is the leading mens wedding website www.iamstaggered.com
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
We try to have something for everyone at The UK Wedding Shows and are delighted that the guys from Staggered will be joining us at some of the new seasons shows, dispensing valuable advice for Grooms everywhere from their stand at our exhibitions and on our blog. Read on for a blokes-eye view of The Big Day……
On first inspection you’d probably think a wedding would rank somewhere between, “Small Girl With Ice-Cream” and “Parcel Delivery” on your average bloke’s internal list of terrifying situations to be confronted with. But when you start to break it down the Big Day contains a number of situations that rank wayyyyy higher on the Terrifying-O-Meter; perhaps even somewhere between “Rooney Broken Bone” and “Getting Things Caught In Zips.” So what is it that’s giving your groom, best man or father of the bride a nasty case of wedding nerves?
Walking Down The Aisle
Sounds stupid doesn’t it? The bride’s the one who has to do the aisle-walking dressed in the big frock and pokey shoes and yet the father of the bride is the one who’s sweating over it. Why? Well mostly because it’s his big moment. All those eyes turn towards him, he has to stick to that weird slow-walk rhythm and he knows that at the end of the aisle he has to hand his daughter over to some spotty oik he’s only met twelve times.
How to combat: Practice makes perfect on the walk and try and have the big, “You know I’ll always love you Dad” talk a month or so before, not in the car on the way to the church.
Saying His Vows Right
I do, just two little words that give men more problems than nearly any other. In this case though it’s not the weight of the ceremony or the pressures of commitment that petrify him, it’s the sheer bloody simplicity. Someone says the words and you just have to repeat them, that’s easy! Exactly, so you’d be really stupid if you messed them up wouldn’t you?
How to combat: Get hold of the text of the wedding ceremony you’ll be using and go through it a few weeks before. You can even practice if you like. Then it’s up to the registrar or vicar to put you at your ease. Fortunately, they’re nearly all very good at their job and if you schedule in a meeting a few weeks before then they’ll help put you at your ease.
Wedding Speeches
This one is perhaps the most understandable. After all, writing a wedding speech is difficult enough when you consider the formalities and the etiquette you need to observe and that’s before you factor in that it’s supposed to be eloquently emotional (the groom/father of the bride) or effortlessly entertaining (best man). Twin that with most people’s natural hatred of public speaking and you’ve got the perfect storm of fear.
How to combat: If they’re struggling to write it send them to a professional speechwriter like Burn The Toast for help with their speeches for weddings Alternatively, move the speeches to before the dinner, restrict everyone to toasts only or cancel them altogether.
Commitment
Ahhh, where would the romantic comedy genre be without this old trope, that secretly men fear the idea of living with a woman more than they fear sharks, or fire, or sharks on fire? It’s almost unheard of for men to actually act anything like the male characters from Friends. The closest most men will ever get to the commitment question is when one of their more laddish mates says, “You know that means you can only sleep with one woman for the rest of your life?” A question that’s easy to contend with because the friend in question last had sex in 2001.
How To Combat: Ignore it. He’s bought the ring and gone down on one knee, he’s not about to flit now.
Confetti
It’s evil stuff.
How to combat: Fire.
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