The Groom's Instruction Manual: How to Survive and Possibly Even Enjoy the Most Bewildering Ceremony Known to Man

By Shandon Fowler

Book Overview

A funny, practical wedding-planning guide just for grooms, with essential advice on engagement rings, guest lists, vendors, rehearsal dinners, wedding-day duties, speeches, honeymoons, and everything in between.

The Groom's Instruction Manual gives husbands-to-be a funny, practical guide to navigating engagement, wedding planning, the big day, and what comes afterward. Author and veteran groom Shandon Fowler answers the questions that can leave even the most enthusiastic groom wondering where to begin: How do you choose a ring? What should you look for in a wedding photographer? How do you handle the guest list and feuding relatives? What exactly are you responsible for on the wedding day?

Packed with helpful tips and illustrated in the clever instruction-manual style of Quirk Books' Owner's and Instruction Manual series, this 208-page guide covers your questions and concerns. Whether you're newly engaged, deep into wedding planning, or shopping for the groom-to-be, this compact handbook offers a humorous introduction to the practical decisions, responsibilities, and unexpected situations that come with getting married.
A practical, humorous guide to what the groom needs to know from engagement through the honeymoon Get advice on proposals, wedding bands, reception venues, guest lists, photographers, entertainment, rehearsal dinners, and more Navigate groom responsibilities, speeches and toasts, family dynamics, wedding-day emotions, and reception etiquette Charts, diagrams, checklists, and an entertaining instruction-manual format make wedding planning easier to digest A fun engagement, bachelor party, wedding shower, or pre-wedding gift for newly engaged men
Get ready for the proposal, the planning, the party, and the "I do" with a groom's guide to everything nobody thought to explain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594741905
• ISBN13: 9781594741906
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

I bought three!

I orignially got this for my fiance but I started reading it before I saw him and I had to finish it. I bought another 2 for my co-workers who will be getting married soon as well. It's a fun book and it talks about things that as a bride I wouldn't necessarily have thought of.

Great Book

This is a great book. It's funny, so it can be a gag gift, but it also has some helpful information. I got it for my fiance and he's been dutifully reading it and seemingly enjoying it. He seems to be particularly interested in the section about who is this financee and what happened to the woman I love. I like the part where it tells him that his finacee is always right. The one drawback...the opening section is on proposing, and it would have been a bit forward to give it to him before he proposed.

Beyond surviving!

This book by Shandon Fowler is not only humorous but it is a first rate guide to good manners & social customs which are often ignored or unknown until they have caused conflict in the wedding events!! The groom's life will be much better & he will survive marriage as well!! Knowing how differently men & women approach events & life issues is half the battle! A must read!

Bravo, bravo, bravo

I do not know Fowler. I have never met the man. Yet his work speaks to me in a way that Conrad, Gogol, and Pushkin never have. I salute you, Mr. Red, White, and Blue. Long may you run, Fowler, long may you run.

Hilariously Informative

I received this book as an engagement gift and wish I had bought it two years ago. This book touches on everything from buying the perfect ring to dealing with mother in laws. It adds a humorous narrative of the journey into marriage. A must-have for any groom-to-be or any bloke who has suddenly found himself madly in love. Whether you are just thinking about proposing or already planning a wedding, you need this book. -NF