How Many People Should Be At A Bucks Party
Looking at your best friending and thinking wondering if that's enough people for the buck's party? Well for better or worse, it really depends on the Buck and his social circle. Now if you want an almost dictionary definition of a Buck’s party, we can say something like “It's an all-male, intimate gathering of people close to the Groom” or something similar. However we’ve found you can pretty much throw this definition out the window at any point you want, so for this article we’ll cover the ‘Intimate’ bit (No, not that kind of “intimate” unless you’re REAL close with your homies).
Small
This is the classic option which happens more than most people expect, sometimes even just one to three friends. Now this is not to say the Buck isn’t a social bloke, he may have plenty of friends but be only truly close to a couple, or maybe he just wants to share what really is an important event with guys that he trusts. If he’s planning on going out on the town, maybe he’s looking to keep it low profile, or only wants the guys who’ll not get too rowdy, leaving him to arrive bruised, battered, and covered in tomato sauce for his wedding. Regardless, small buck’s parties are quite common and usually involve a few blokes getting away for a day or even a night, could be fishing, could be camping, could just be setting up a LAN party at someone’s house and playing through every COD, Halo, and the new WOW expansion, who knows.
Medium
In the medium buck’s party range we’re starting to hit a bit more between 5 and 10 people, maybe a little over. Now, whilst it’s still perfectly possible to do something like camping still, in general you’ll start to need a bigger venue and a more coordinated method. This is where we start to see the ‘classic Buck’s party’ emerge- a night out on the town, getting loud, running amuck and having the best night of your lives. More people means you can spread out the cost a bit more so now you can afford that hotel room, that steak dinner, or VIP access to the clubs.This is a great option for budget yet also being able to keep track of everyone, with people still getting to spend time with their friend (the Buck), whilst also mixing and matching with not a huge amount of icebreaking needed.
Big
Okay we’ll call this one anywhere from 15 and above. This can be a massive amount of people and well done you for knowing so many. If you’ve got this many people to invite then well done you’ve won at the game of having friends! Here the budget opens up a lot more, with two trades to be careful of 1) If it’s a bunch of different friendship groups then be careful they don’t separate, you know work colleagues stick with work colleagues and highschool friends with highschool friends type of things. 2) Keeping track of people and getting to talk to everyone. This is more for the buck and the organiser, obviously everyone wants to spend time with the Buck and if there’s 20 people clamouring to talk to him this can be a little stressful, and trying to coordinate 20 people to be in the same bar and making sure nobody gets left behind if you’re moving on can be a nightmare. However, with the right group of people who know what they’ve signed up for and a ‘choose your own adventure’ mindset this can totally work, and you’ll find it’ll be one of the best nights of your lives!
As long as you have fun, it's all gravy
So, there's your three basic options and their run-downs! Remember you can mix and match any way you want, for instance you can start off and spend the day with a small party, just the closest bunch, maybe even go camping the night before. Then you can have a night out with a medium sized group, get into everywhere you’d like, not stress so much about budget etc. Finally you can end the next day off with a big house-party type gig with a BBQ, BYO, and tunes in the backyard. The possibilities are endless and it’s up to you!