So, you’ve been asked to be the Best Man and with this great honour comes the responsibility of hiring suits, looking after the rings and making sure the groom gets to the church on time! But even more importantly, its your responsibility to plan and organise the stag party!

A stag do, stag night, stag weekend or whatever you plan to do always seems like a great idea, and it always ends up being a great laugh. You’ve asked around and now you know where you’re going, when you’re going, who’s going and how much it will cost, but the other big question you need to ask is what are you going to do to the stag? It’s a tradition that has been going on for years and a bit of stag party antics is always to be expected, in fact its compulsory!

A stag night prank, like everything to do with a stag night or stag weekend, should be well thought through . We’ve come up with a few ideas to turn a great stag night into a legendary stag night that will be remembered for years to come. Whether you plan to go for a drink or pub crawl or hit the clubs and dance off the excess alcohol, you cant have a good stag party without a few dares, forfeits and challenges. Here are some of our suggestions:

• Over the course of the evening, persuade 6 girls to buy you a drink (extra respect if you get her telephone number as well!)
• Get a button from any part of a girl’s clothing and a piece of women’s underwear to keep for posterity
• Sing and dance whilst standing on a chair for a whole song
• Drink 3 shots down in one
• Pull your underpants up at the back so they show above the waist of your trousers and tuck your shirt into them. Walk round like it for 15 minutes (and no hiding in the loo!)
• Wear a dress and every pub or venue you go to, ask the first man you see if they come here often.
• Convince a girl that you used to be a woman

Another good way of getting people to know each other at a stag party is playing some games along the way. They can be anything from drinking games to taking the dares to another level.

One of the simplest games to get the stag party started and for everyone to get to know each other is to have each person tell their funniest, most embarrassing story about the Stag. This may also help to get some funny material for the best man’s speech!

What about a game of truth or dare? It’s a great opportunity to get everyone into the spirit of things and gets the stag night dares off to a good start. Questions like "Tell us the last time you cried watching a film" or "The most embarrassing CD you've ever bought" always go down well!

A popular stag night drinking game is one played around a circle of people using celebrity names. The starting player thinks of any well-known celebrity or famous person and says "To my left..." or "To my right..." followed by the name of the celebrity. Play is then passed on to the person on his/her left or right as stated. It is then up to that person to come up with another celebrity name, using the first letter of the previous celebrity's surname as the first letter of the new celebrity's first name. When it is a player's turn and they are thinking of somebody's name, they must "Drink while you think". That is, from the start of their go until they say the name out loud, they must be drinking whatever drink they have on the go at the time. And if they don’t come up with anything they have to do a shot.

When the boys get together the topic of conversation usually turns to football, cars, drinking and women! And the stag night is no exception. Use some of these jokes to get the ball rolling and see how many each of you can come up with, the person who cant think of one or manages to muck it up gets to down his drink.

How many men does it take to open a beer?
None it should be opened by the time she brings it.

Did you know there are just 2 times when a man doesn't understand a woman: before and after marriage.

You know they do say that a marriage is a 3-ring circus. Engagement ring, wedding ring and suffer-ring.

After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, 'You know, I was a fool when I married you.' The husband replied, 'Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice.'

Remind the Groom that "Man is incomplete until he is married, then he's finished!!"

Steve Wright pointed out "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?"

What women really mean when they tell you something.

“I heard a noise” really means “I noticed you were almost asleep
“We Need” really means “I want”
“Do what you want” really means “You’ll pay for this later”
“We need to talk” really means “I need to complain”
“Do you love me?” really means “I’m going to ask for something expensive”
“I'll be ready in a minute” really means “I’ll be ready in an hour”

Chat up Lines
"My name is Steve, remember that because you'll be screaming it later"
"I like my eggs fried"
"Did it hurt...when you fell from heaven
"Is that a mirror in your pants, it's just that I see myself in them"
"Your clothes look great, they'd look even better on my bedroom floor"

Alcohol
A man fond of his beer once said "drink what you want, drink what you're able. If you are drinking with me you'll be under the table". It's no exaggeration to state that the stag weekend will see your most staggering intake of alcohol to date - better get some practice in!!

Hangover cures
Lets face it you will be suffering the morning after, so Freedom suggest a combination of the following:
Coke - fizz for sickness, the liquid for the dehydration and the caffeine to get you out of bed!
Coffee - as above, but no fizz obviously
Vegemite on toast - your stomach has something to work on and the salt is good
Bananas - because of the sugar content and the antacid for nausea
Hot Bath - the heat will seat out the toxins
And...you can't beat a good fry up!!!!