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GROOMS Suits You Sir! 10454 views
Gieves & Hawkes No.1 Savile Row have launched the No.1 Tailored Wedding Service in response to the increasing interest grooms and their party are showing in planning what to wear on the big day.
From formal morning suits to lounge suits, Gieves & Hawkes stores advise the groom2be on the most appropriate attire for any style wedding. Whether you are looking at the ready to wear range (from £495), personal tailoring (from £795) or the ultimate bespoke service (from £3400), experienced staff will make sure your look is perfectly co-ordinated from head to toe.
As a way of saying 'congratulations', Gieves & Hawkes is offering each member of the wedding party a complimentary shirt and tie (to the value of £165) with every suit purchased. The offer runs from now until late summer at stores and stockists nationwide.To find out more, call 020 7434 2001 or go to gievesandhawkes.com
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GROOMS Shaving Rooms 7800 views
Getting groomed up and perfectly shaved is not necessarily a run to the local barber, but could be more a case of visiting a spa near you! Why settle for a short back and sides when you could be in for an excecutive manicure or a four palm massage?
Check out the treatments on offer at your local spa and you'll be surprised to see plenty of men-only experiences - just right for getting you perfectly groomed for the day. At The Refinery, a slick spa based in London's Brook Street as well as at ooh-la-la Harrods, you can go for a regular spring clean with Deep Cleansing Back Treatments (£60 for 45 minutes), a Salt Scrub (£45 for 30 minutes) and an Executive Pedicure (£65 for 60 minutes). Alternatively, you could opt for a Four Palm Massage (£140 for 60 minutes), guaranteed to leave you feeling deeply relaxed and revitalised.
For The Refinery experience in your own home, a range of gunk-free products has been created with essential oils and cutting-edge technology. For squeaky clean skin, use Face Scrub (£18), a purifying Chinese white kaolin clay. And get into a pampered-man shaving routine with Shave Oil (£21) or Shave Foam Gel (£12) both with great skin enhancing ingredients. The products are available by Mail Order (08452 305605) or on the high street at your local Boots.Their advice to you? Try not to shave the day before the wedding as it gives skin a well-needed rest. On the day, get showered and shaved just before you are ready for the big day finery.
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GROOMS Get Shirty 9316 views
Your groom will be worth the shirt on his back with Eton's fabulous dress shirts. Nordic origin, the shirts are beautifully designed, but best of all they are wrinkle-free.
Get your man to dress for the occasion with a dinner shirt (£110) and bow tie (£35) from Eton Shirts (020 7430 1433 etonshirts.co.uk) - Beckham, Redford and Schwimmer all wear them.Perfect for a wedding abroad or gun-shot nuptials, the shirt comes out of its package ready to wear. And to wash? In the washing machine and hang to dry. When dry, you might think the shirt still requires a quick dash with a light iron (are you a domestic god/godess?). Do not bother! After twenty minutes of wearing, the shirt will be wrinkle free and will stay that way all day.
So what are these uber-shirts made of? Forget drip-dry and the seventies. Eton shirts are made from pure Swiss cotton. The magic bit is an organic, non-iron finish. It sounds too good to be true, but the finish lasts as long as the shirt and not ironing a shirt prolongs its lifetime. Not ironing a shirt might also prolong your marriage. I must have a rummage in the drawers, I am sure I have some marriage-lengthening drip-dry clothes somewhere!
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GROOMS Groom-zilla! 8003 views
Worrying about wedding flowers? Not the bride - it's 'Groomzilla'. A recent survey by stress-busting chewing team, Wrigley Extra, reveals men are just as stressed as women over their weddings!
Forget the typical picture of 'bride-zilla' obsessing over colour schemes and caterers, research carried out on behalf of Wrigley Extra reveals a new breed of 'groom-zillas' getting involved in every aspect of the big day! Gone is the laid back British groom who just shows up. The survey found that 8% of today's grooms admit to fretting over the wedding invitation and 3% found picking the bridesmaid outfits caused them to pull their hair out.
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
The toll of organising a wedding made one in ten grooms, (10%), feel extremely stressed - 1% even confessed to crying. Panic over the finer details, left one in five (19%) grooms having problems sleeping and 11% suffering from headaches. Over one in 10 (12%) even confessed they argued with their future wife and family because they felt so overwhelmed. Managing feuding families also causes problems for grooms, almost half (41%) said this was their biggest stress trigger.
Issues that traditionally cause brides to panic are affecting their other halves, 4% of grooms got in a flap over the wedding cake and table accessories and one in ten, (11%), were worried about where everyone should be seated. It was the guest list that really caused most men to panic, over a third (39%) grooms said this was their main concern compared to 36% of brides.
Bride-zilla v. groom-zilla
Wedding stress - tradition or trend?
The survey found grooms are getting stressed because they have more responsibility. One in five, (20%), men who were married three years ago did not have a role in any of the wedding planning, compared to 7% of grooms getting married in the next year.
"It's no longer just the bride who is fixated on the minute detail of her special day. Increasingly we find grooms becoming just as closely involved in wedding planning - even in organising the flowers and the catering – and as a result suffering from “wedding stress” as much as their brides to be.” says Sarah Auerbach, Managing Director of society wedding planners Fresh Attitude.
Boys will be Boys
It is not just the flowers and table cloths that get men flustered. The best man dishing the dirt in his speech caused one in ten, (10%) men to feel agitated and booking the honeymoon filled 13% of grooms with dread.
The survey found that it's the Welsh crumbling under wedding pressure, over one in ten (12%), felt extremely anxious on the lead up to their wedding and a quarter said it kept them awake at night. Scottish grooms are the most laid back, 35% said they did not feel stressed at all and let other people do the worrying!
Welsh Worriers
And in the Wedding Talk Forum?
'Debs': We have made all the big decisions together i normally do the research and give him choices!
'Mrstrott': Most things we decide on as a couple but he has agreed on everything i've picked so far
'Hollie' My H2B has been completely involved in everything!! Apart form my dress and the bridesmaids, he has played a major part in all of and he is finding it equally enjoyable!
'Joannemm' My man has been great about everything - he hasn't been overly involved but he has helped me make some decisions (ie. colour schemes & themes). I think he would be perfectly happy to turn up on the day and go with whatever I had planned, but I felt I wanted him to be involved, after all it is OUR day not just mine.
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GROOMS Drink Matters 7855 views
Do some homework and impress her by taking on board some expert advice on selecting wine for the wedding from Peter Stewart, Glasgow Director of Inverarity One to One.
Research! Taste as many wines as possible in your preferred price range. You are looking for "crowd pleasers", fruity wines that most people will be happy quaffing. Merlot, especially from the New World is a banker.
Keep it simple. You can't possibly please everyone, and it's madness to go down the route of getting in a single bottle of Puligny because it's all that Aunt Millie drinks. Ideally one white and one red, possibly with something special for the top table.
How much is enough? You get 5 decent glasses of fizz to a bottle...so take the number of guests, multiply by two (if you want them to have a glass on arrival and one for the toasts) and divide by five to give you the number of bottles required. I would also round it up a wee bit as a safety net...you don't want to run out and most wine merchants do sale or return. So for 80 guests having two glasses each, you would need 32 bottles, which I would round up to 36. For the table wine, roughly half a bottle per head is a decent estimate.
Champagne or sparkling? There are some excellent sparkling wines on the market, so you don't have to go crazy...although some people prefer to do both, starting with champagne and moving on to fizz. Again, try as many as possible beforehand, and pick one that you enjoy.
Food matching. Worth thinking about as the right wine with the menu will increase everyone's enjoyment of the day. The dominant flavours in the dish are the important ones, don't worry about the garnishes. Ask your wine merchant what he or she would recommend.
Money. Pick a price range and stick to it, whatever you are happy spending. Remember to factor in any corkage charges.
To find out about Inverarity's wine-selecting service contact 0141 221 5121 or go to www.inverarity121.comPhoto ©Freeman Photographics, iStockphoto
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