The Groom's Instruction Manual: How to Survive and Possibly Even Enjoy the Most Bewildering Ceremony Known to Man (Owner's and Instruction Manual) Paperback – November 1, 2007

I gifted this to our son who is engaged. It’s a cute take on the grooms duties and advice

I purchased this for my son to prepare for his wedding day. He keeps quoting parts of the book, and I can hear him chuckling when reading it. These are all good things in my book!

I had originally seen this book at a small gift shop in Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston and I stayed in the store reading it long enough to get all sorts of nasty looks from the girl at the counter. Rather than pay the jacked-up tourist trap price to buy the book I came to Amazon and saved almost 75%.This book is a quick read and despite some hokey graphics and charts it does provide valuable information on all topics from selecting a ring to asking her father's permission to wedding night sex. This was especially helpful for me as I had not been to a wedding rehearsal prior to my own wedding and I was the first of my friends to get engaged so I didn't have any expectations/knowledge of what to expect.Buy this book for yourself and get the bride instruction manual for your wife and then read them both to gain valulable knowledge and also to earn some brownie points for when she eventually yells at you for not caring enough about the font color on the placecards.

Ordered this is a gift for my brother after his engagement. I doubt he did a cover-to-cover read, but I skimmed a good bit of it and was pleasantly surprised by the information offered. It addresses several topics that come up pre-engagement too, so this might make a good gift for a guy who's considering popping the question, or one who has already done so. For the proposal I remember it discussing everything from the 5 C's for diamond buying (but don't be a sucker guys, go unique!) to asking her dad for permission.. or not asking. Also, moving into the wedding planning stages it addressed things like how much and in what ways the guy should expect to participate in the planning, etc. If nothing else, it's a great jumping off point for first-timers to help make sure otherwise forgotten things are considered and hopefully discussed by the couple. Good gift! Especially for the guys who you're afraid might not think of everything on their own!

I gave this as a little congrats gift when my brother got engaged. It's a cute concept, doesn't take itself too seriously, but provides heads-up style info for what goes into planning a wedding. When I got married and was planning my wedding, my husband would weigh in on decisions without looking at what went into the planning and it drove me nuts. I figured I'd save my brother's fiance the grief and get him a guide to help him understand what all she's contending with in the planning. It has nice tips on what's expected from the males in a traditional wedding. It's a smallish book, not overwhelming looking, and has enough of a touch of humor to draw a guy in who is otherwise not at all interested in event planning or worrying about fussy traditions. Makes a nice gift!

Gave this as a gift to my fiance and he found it to be funny. I read through some of it before and there is actually some great advice and thinking points in there...even the section of "are you sure you want to do this." It had humour too. I enjoyed reading from the part warning about how your bride may seem a little crazy but the woman you proposed to will return haha. I bought this used so had a crease in the cover but no big deal for the price paid. Fun gift from mother or father of the groom (or bride) or from his groomsmen or friends.

I ordered this book about a month after my fiancé had purposed, knowing he wasn't going to want to talk flower detail or color coordinating.. this book is totally written from a guy perspective like he was just talking to one of his buddies. Visual aids were funny and all the text was informative, accurate, and most of all my fiancé doesn't feel like he's planning a wedding with me. He recommends it as well, and ORDER IT BEFORE YOU PURPOSE!! there is all kinds of info on how to purpose the right way (which he said he "wishes he would have had these pointers before hand because he's never done this before")

My FI was stressing out about wedding planning and I thought getting this book which was known to be cute and funny would lighten things up for him and maybe not have him stress out more.I flipped through the book a little bit. I didn't read much of it but I liked the art work and the feel of the book, it was a good size and the texture of the pages were nice.This book was not written for men at all... Like another comment said, it's mostly a gag gift with maybe a sprinkle of good advice here and there.My groom-to-be was actually looking at it as a seriously guide to help him out with comedy sprinkled in and he was insulted by some of the things it said. One being that from now on I'm always right and he should just sit back and let me and my family do everything. That didn't mesh well with him at all because he is very serious about having in put in this wedding and that was like a slap in the face to him. I told him take it easy and that this is not a serious book at all. I really like that he wants to help with the wedding because it shows he cares about it.That did not make him feel better, he's a pretty easy going person normally but after reading this book he was grumpy for days! Please don't get give this to your FI if he is serious about wanting to help you with the wedding because I think this book tells him that he's opinion doesn't matter and he shouldn't try when it's really your job to make all the choices about the wedding.