No-Brainer Groomsmen Gifts for Baseball Fans

As a guy, you probably dread shopping. But if your best men like baseball, you can't strike out with these groomsmen gifts. Here are a few no-brainer groomsmen gifts for baseball fans. Batters up! Club Seats Club Seats. It's your bachelor party and groomsmen gifts all rolled into one. Present your groomsmen with club seats and you'll be crowned king. Just make sure all your guys can attend game day. Get permission slips from their girlfriends if you have to. Bonus tip: Have your bachelor party on a beer bus. A party bus to the game costs less than Vegas and won't cause your fiancee a conniption. Engraved Baseball Mugs Engraved baseball mug. Every baseball fan needs a personalized Louisville Slugger. An engraved baseball bat brings back those Babe Ruth delusions of grander we had as kids. The only trouble is that baseball bats are notoriously difficult to wrap. But hey, you probably weren't going to wrap your groomsmen gifts anyway. Personalized MLB Pub Sign Personalized MLB Pub Signs. Half the fun of baseball season is the pre-game and post game at the team's designated spot. But what does one do during the off season? He stares longingly at his personalized pub sign, like a dog out the window, remembering great sports moments of seasons past. Bonus tip: Personalized pub signs are a must for any man-cave. Get yours well before you're banished to the basement forever. Personalized Baseball Beer Steins Baseball Sports Steins. One of the biggest complaints about baseball is the high cost of ticket prices, beer, and grub. How is it possible that a hot dog costs $6.00? If a groomsmen game day will leave you broke and penniless, consider a simple baseball beer stein. Personalized MLB Bottle Opener Personalized MLB Bottle Opener. He has 99 pieces of baseball flair. Why not add to it with officially licensed The "Cutter" Signature Series - Half Baseball Bottle Opener? Add this unique baseball bottle opener complete with the signature of his favorite player. What a great groomsmen gift for the guy who shows team spirit any way he can! Personalized Bat Knob Shot Glass Personalized Bat Knob Shot Glass. Add this awesome piece to your bar collection. A unique & patented baseball gift that baseball fans love, and have never seen before! Pour your favorite drink directly into the knob of a baseball bat! Great idea? We thought so, too!

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New Wedding Toast Widget Saves Groomsmen from Embarrassment

Not only the groom suffers from wedding day jitters. Best men get them too -- just before the wedding toast. The speech should entertain and make the wedding guests guffaw, but at the same time, you should avoid stories about the groom's hilarious drunken escapades. Don't pig roast the groom on his wedding day! Unless you're a rare cross between Jimmy Kimmel and Walt Witman, everyone could use a few wedding words. So what do you do? Get GroomStand's new Wedding Toast Widget! It aggregates the best quotes for the various types of wedding speeches. Spread the words! Copy and paste the toast widget on your own blog, using the code provided with the link. With your help, we could put an end to terrible toasts.

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Never Drop Your iPod Again!

Let's face it, these awesome devices that bring us digital quality, head banging tunes all in a tiny and very expensive package, need to be protected at all times. I can't tell you how many times I have just shoved my Nano in my pocket then headed off for a run. Very recently I accidentally took off for a run wearing shorts with no pockets and had to run while carrying it in my hand. I felt like an idiot, but my only saving grace was watching another guy running across the street doing the EXACT same thing! If your groomsmen are runners, or even if they aren't, these Personalized iPod Holders are awesome groomsmen gifts. If you personalize them with up to three initials, (free by the way) then no fellow runners in the household can miraculously say that they just happened to buy the exact same leather iPod carrier as you, so get one for yourself while you're groomsmen gifts shopping. It can clip right to your waistband so whether you're wearing pocketless shorts or, heaven forbid Speedos, while you run, you are covered. Lastly, I don't know how I managed to do it, but in addition to dropping my iPod a dozen times, I also always seem to get crumbs of every kind stuck to the wheel, inside the earpiece hole and every where else. This is an awesome way to protect, carry and enjoy your slick device, and it's perfect for groomsmen gifts. What the heck did we do before these bad boys were invented? Technorati Tags: groomsmen gifts, ipod holders, iPod

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Mistakes, Divine And Otherwise

Yesterday we had a big wedding day no-no, though the fact that they downed that thing between the two of them that fast is pretty impressive. But we didn't want the groomsmen to be the only ones on the spot so today we thought that maybe a video of some more lighthearted wedding mishaps would bring you some smiles. More importantly, you'll get to see how necessary it is to have a good priest, something that often goes over looked in wedding arrangements. Whomever is going to be leading the ceremony and acknowledging your marriage should be someone you know and are comfortable with. And if you don't know them that well then you better sit down and meet them because your wedding day starts with the priest (minus all of the getting ready business). Anyways here's a laugh on us here at Groomstand. Enjoy!

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Mission Possible: Ring Sizing Reconnaissance

The engagement ring. She's pointed to it a million times. The squareish-cut diamond, with a bunch of diamonds around it (ok, so you weren't listening that well, but you could pick it out of a magazine if your life depended on it). The symbol of your love is just one bank account clearing transaction away - when you realize... you don't know the ring size. The ring size is the bane of your existence. It's the last thing you want to think about when you're popping the big question, but it's the first thing that can ruin your magical moment. Finding a ring size isn't like finding your best man's shirt size for your groomsmen gifts. Ring sizes don't come up in everyday conversation. If you'd rather pass on the "let's go ring shopping together" experience, take our advice on ring sizing reconnaissance. Ring Size: 101 - Size Does Matter Jewelers don't make this easy. Ring sizes in the United State and Canada are on their own system with quarter and half sizes. What makes it more confusing is that fingers can swell up to a full ring size throughout the day from eating or exercising. When it comes to measuring a ring, anything more specific than a half size is irrelevant. Finding the Ring Size: There are five ways to find your gal's ring size without her knowing (but only three will work): 5. Use a Printable Ring Size Chart This printable ring size chart from Blue Nile is a great piece of marketing, but it's not a tool of the trade. The paper sizer is suspect because... um, IT'S PAPER. Paper is flexible. It moves and takes the shape of your finger. You'll get inaccurate results when you compare it to a medal ring. 4. Tie a String Around Her Finger A string takes less work (no cutting out paper sizers) but still just as shoddy. The string is more likely to give a tight measurement than a loose one. 3. Steal One of Her Rings Your mission, should you decide to accept it... Snoop through her jewelry box. Swipe a "ring finger" ring. Slide it in your pocket and dash to the jewelry store. If you or any team member be caught or killed, GroomStand will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck. This message will not self-destruct in five seconds (so don't let her find out). 2. Use Your Own Finger If you can't make it out the door with her ring, place it on your own finger. It's likely that your hands are wider than hers - take note by marking the spot the ring rests (just so you don't confuse yourself, mark your finger on both sides of the ring). 1. Use Soap This method sounds asinine, but we're not the only ones recommending this stunt. Smash one of her rings into a bar of soap. The circle impression should be an accurate mold of her ring to take to the jeweler. Ring Shopping - Before You Buy Understand the return policy. Always make sure you can get a full refund, or at the very least trade the ring back for store credit. If the future fiancé needs an alteration, find out if those services are included with the purchase. Have fun with the surprise. Remember this is a story you'll have to share about a million times over the next year.

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Michael Jackson Wedding Dance Video Tribute

There is no better way to honor the memory of Michael Jackson than making a half-ass drunken attempt to copy his dance moves at your wedding. The moon walk, the leg kick, or even the crotch grab sound easy on paper, but when people try it on the dance floor, they're bad... they're bad, you know it! As the Smooth Criminals we are at GroomStand.com, we scoured the internet on an extensive 15 minute search of the best and worst Michael Jackson themed dance videos for your enjoyment. Because It's a Thriller - To See Your Friends Dance Like This Thriller is the go to group wedding dance. Here's a co-ed group that obviously went the extra mile with some dance lessons, and it totally shows! These groomsmen made a good effort. Even though most of the background dancers already have the dance qualities of the undead, it seems the choreography starts to suffer after a few nips off the old personalized flask (which makes great groomsmen gifts if you're not springing for the dance lessons). At least those guys put in some extra time on the parquet. If you don't put in the practice time, you'll end up looking like a group of drunken former cheerleaders (which isn't a bad thing at a wedding if you look the part). The Michael Jackson Montage It takes some extra dedication to pull off a montage of MJ's hits from the 80's (we'd all like to pretend the Michael Jackson of the 90's never happened). These moves take a ton of coordination, a half-way sober mind and enough practice that says you Don't Stop Till You Get Enough. The problem with some of these choreographed dances is that the dancers might take it a step too far. Based on the look of these groomsmen, someone needs to remind them that they don't have a dance contract on the line. Even if the dance moves from your groomsmen make you think they should look at the Man in the Mirror, reward their effort with awesome groomsmen gifts from GroomStand.com.

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Meeting Your Future Bride or Groom

Listen we're in the groomsmen gifts business so anything wedding related is all right with us, but I'd like to officially welcome you to 2007 where you can get everything your heart desires at the twitch of a fingertip - including your future wife. We truly are in a brand new era when emails are becoming obsolete for meeting new people. WSJ online printed an interesting article about a new company, MeetMoi who matches people up by text messaging. They charge a nominal fee of .99 cents for 10 text messages but most importantly if you feel the need to soup up your social life you need to only text MeetMoi your location and within minutes you will be linked with someone who will send you their profile and they'll also be in your area. This works great if you don't have the time to wait to respond to emails. Wait...did I actually just say that? Emails are instantaneous for crying out loud. My dad still to this day has never even turned on a computer (yes he's still alive). Okay, that's clearly not the norm and I have no idea how he functions, and I'm not a hater of this new technology of having a potential future bride only a fingertip away at any given moment in time. BUT I'm simply in awe of where we are with the technology abilities that we have and wonder if it somehow desensitizes us just a tad. It probably does, and I'd like to discuss it further but I just got a text from FLRTYNLA 24F so I gotta jam. TTYL. Technorati Tags: groomsmen gifts, meetmoi, online dating

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May the Force be with your Star Wars Wedding

She's as beautiful as the moon of Endor, and as graceful as a TIE Fighter. She can throw on a gold bikini and argue why the Millennium Falcon can do the Kessel run in twelve parsecs. Yep, you found the perfect girl. Celebrate your love for the conquest of the galaxy with GroomStand's step-by-step guide for a Star Wars Wedding. Add a Touch of a Galaxy Far, Far Way You don't have to build the Mos Eisley Cantina to give your wedding an outer space theme. With a few Death Star disco balls and some lightsabers as groomsmen gifts, you can have your very own Star Wars themed back yard ceremony (although, it might take a Jedi mind trick to get your mother-in-law to dress up like a wookie). Duncan Thompson (dressed as Han Solo kissing his bride Sammi Gardiner) went the extra light year with his wedding details. Mr. Thomas told his bride "I promise to protect you from carbon freezing and promise to protect you from the Dark Side, through hyperspace and into the far reaches of the galaxy." While he wasn't able to wrangle George Lucas as a wedding guest, he did create his bride's ring out of a meteorite, engraved with: "May the 4th be with you." The Beauty of the Galaxy If your wedding party isn't in the mood to strap a blaster to their hip, the bride can embrace the beauty of the Empire with this curvy Stromtrooper wedding dress. Screw the droids, now that's what I'm lookin for! Slice Your Tauntaun and Eat Him Too And you thought they smelled bad on the outside. This special cake from Cake Nouveau shows of an unconscious Luke Skywalker keeping warm inside a severed Tauntaun during a Hoth ice storm. The groom, original Star Wars artist Chris Trevas, commented on the Star Wars blog that "Older relatives were a bit confused, but the kids and our friends loved it!" If you're actually trying to throw your own Star Wars themed wedding, Jedi-Robe.com has enough lightsabers and blasters to take down the Empire. And if you're still looking for some awesome groomsmen gifts from this galaxy, shop at GroomStand.com.

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March Madness and Marriage: The Championship Edition

I'm a good planner. It's one of those reasons my fiance brags about me to her girlfriends. I'm always on time; I plan romantic dinners; I'm good with numbers; I've always got a pen handy. To top it off, I've been dutifully helping out with the logistics of our upcoming wedding for over a year now. She tells me her friends are so jealous when she regales them with stories of my planning abilities. She says she has no worries about the wedding going off without a hitch. "Don't forget about the honeymoon, too!" I remind her. She nods and goes back goes back to perusing the guest RSVP list. We're less than two weeks away, and our wedding is on April 5th. Yes, I know, that's NCAA Final Four Saturday! The culmination of March/April Madness! It's near sacrilege! But worry not. Like I said, I'm a good planner, and I've got it all covered: Exhibit A, the big video screen: Yes, we'll have to cut away for the weepy slideshow during the broadcast commercial breaks, but the rest of the time we'll have semifinal game action, twenty feet high! Can't wait for that first slam dunk! Exhibit B, hors d'oeuvres: I negotiated a deal. She got to choose the dinner menu if I got to select the snackables. How do hot wings, potato poppers and li'l smokies sausages tickle your tastebud palate? All fancied up by our caterer of course! They sound so good to me I just might pass on the main entree! Exhibit C, a little friendly competition: What else? A Pop-a-Shot Three Point game for the kids to play with (I might take a turn or two myself). Sounds more fun than tossing a bouquet, don't you think? And for the pice de rsistance, did I mention our honeymoon is in Las Vegas? When I plan an event, I plan it right! I didn't get to choose the date of our wedding (do you really think I would purposefully dishonor the Basketball Gods with a selection like that?), but there's no way I'm going to miss watching the championship game in the greatest gambling city of all time! I've got it planned to the last detail. We're staying at the New York New York Hotel, which just happens to house the ESPN Zone Restaurant. Wall-to-wall TVs and game grub galore. My groomsmen are flying in on the sly for a little casino sports book gambling party too. I'm sweetening the pot by giving these personalized poker sets as groomsmen gifts. I've got 15 filled out tournament brackets on the line, and I'm hoping at least one of them comes through! And if not, I'm sure it won't hurt to make a wager or two as well. We'll soon be cutting down the nets in our first home together, with a little luck! One of my groomsmen asked me if I shouldn't actually tell my fiance about all these plans, but I don't think that's necessary quite yet. Besides, I've sacrificed so much for this wedding already. Like, the other day I was on hold with the limousine company and I totally missed the the end of the West Virginia-Duke upset! Some things are just sacred to a sports fan. Missing the championship is out of the question. When she finally does find out, I hope she'll understand. The final touch of my plan is to explain it to her this way: "At least we're not having the bachelor party in Las Vegas as well!"

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Manly Wedding Cake of the Week: Meat Loaf Madness

Wedding cakes, like groomsmen gifts should be tasteful and classy, right? Wrong. When it comes to wedding cakes, we prefer hilariously bad camo confections (bonus points if there's a deer head on top), NASCAR cakes, beer cakes, and baseball cakes. Grooms, take back the cake and show your soon-to-be bride the wedding cake you really want. In GroomStand's Manly Wedding Cake of the Week, you won't find pretty, pearly cakes or cascading champagne fountains. Our manly wedding cake of the week goes to the Black Widow Bakery for their beauteous beef cake. What impressed us most about this cake wasn't the frosted t-bone on top, although it's a nice touch. The cake is a master of visual deception. What looks like fondant is actually mashed potatoes. The baker used ketchup and Worcestershire sauce to create the jelly-like filling. And what resembles fluffy fruit cake is actually homemade meatloaf. Best of all, the baker describes the cake's creation step-by-step. So if you want to get your hands in a bowl of beef and try to replicate this manly masterpiece, go right ahead. GroomStand Hint: If your guys are mega-meat maniacs, give them steak-brand irons as groomsmen gifts. If you had an ultra-manly cake at your wedding, comment below and send us a picture! Shop GroomStand.com for groomsmen gifts and everything else you'll need on the Big Day.

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Man Cave of the Week: Shrine to the Cleveland Browns

Better learn to like that dingy basement or drafty garage, because chances are, when you're married you'll be spending a lot of time there. It's the unspoken rule of marriage: Wife puts out her throw pillows and decorative towels (don't dare wipe your dirty mitts on those) and you get to claim one room as your very own. One room! And it's the one part of the home she doesn't want to decorate. You might not get to flex your decorating muscles but hopefully she lets you pick out your own groomsmen gifts. We're banished to one room because we're disgusting animals who rarely remember to use a coaster or put on a clean tee-shirt. Seriously, most of us aren't fit for public viewing and those that are, don't need man caves. Nothing says man cave like sports signs and groomsmen gifts brimming with machismo, so stock up and adorn your man cave how you see fit. Outfit Your "Mantuary" with Personalized Pub Signs, Sports Signs, and Manly Groomsmen Gifts Guys need a special place to play XBox uninterrupted with their buddies, catch up on ESPN and not have to wrestle for the remote, set up a pool table without matching French Country decor, hang a butt-ugly bass on the wall and not worry about the wife's nightmares...the list of what we can do in our man cave is endless. Whether you call it the man lair (creepy), man cave (acceptable), mantuary (too much like mortuary) or man hole (gross), outfit it with manly groomsmen gifts like these personalized NFL, MLB, and NHL sports signs and personalized pub signs. Our pick for man cave of the week? Micheal Washington's Cleveland Brown's Mantuary. We discovered Washington's man cave while spelunking the official Man Cave Site. Cleveland Browns memorabilia covers every square inch of the walls. Overboard decor like this usually sets off a stalker alert. But in a man cave? It's not only perfectly acceptable, it's embraced. Especially when guys come over to watch the game! We bet this dude would love a personalized NFL locker room sign so he could figuratively rub shoulders with the big boys of the Browns. Every guy needs a place to call his own. We're happy you found yours. Outfit your man cave with groomsmen gifts and more from GroomStand.com.

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Make Your Buddies Earn Their Groomsmen Gifts

The bachelor party is all about fun in the sun, staying hydrated with booze and hangin' with hot chicks who you hope to never see again. When the bros and you are out proving your manhood, make sure each feat of dudeness is met with equally rewarding groomsmen gifts. Bachelor Party Games Game #1: "Scavenger Hunt." This is your best shot at some crazy antics, or a fat slap in the face. Here's a list of stuff you should do or acquire throughout the night: A woman to do a body shot with Find as many condoms as possible Serenade a girl you've never met before Dance by yourself on the dance floor Find some adult products for the honeymoon A piece of woman's clothing A kiss from a girl with the same name as the fianc The winner of the scavenger hunt receives groomsmen gift of a Rubber Grip 13-Function Army Knife for being so crafty. Game #2: "Photo Contest." Figure out what you want to get the most photos with beforehand. Teams of two or more try to take the most pictures of the following: cougar hunt (women over 40 - or actual cougars) hottest chicks, not so hottest chicks, or most women. The hard and fast rule is that each bachelor must have a drink in his left hand for the photo. If he's caught with the drink in his right, he has to chug what's left. If there is no drink in the picture, he has to buy the next round. Winner receives the groomsmen gift of a shot glass. Game #3: "Worst Toast Ever" Everyone in the group needs to write up and deliver the worst possible toast to be delivered at the wedding based on the groom's history. Don't be shy to mention ugly ex-girlfriends, throw-up moments and stupid stuff you'd never want the bride's parents to know about. Winner receives the groomsmen gift of a personalized pen with "Best-Worst Toast Giver-Ever." Game #4: "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." Since the rhyme has to do with the bride, the object of the game will be for each groomsman to collect one drink of each category from women in the bar. Give it a time limit, and no double dipping. The first groom to find a drink that's old, new, borrowed and blue wins the groomsmen gift of an engraved flask. For all your groomsmen gift scavenging needs, remember GroomStand.com.

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