How to Throw a Bachelorette Party

When you throw a bachelorette party, it is a chance for the bride-to-be and her bridesmaids to just hang out and be girls together. You don't need a lot of fancy stuff for the party. Heck, you don't even need too much of a plan. Just go with the flow of the evening and see where the night takes you.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Set up a time and location for everyone to meet in the morning. Your first stop, after a leisurely breakfast, is a hair and nail salon for some special treatment. Get the bride-to-be feeling her best.

2. Run to the local costume shop next, and get a swanky tiara for the bachelorette. A wand is optional, but strongly recommended.

3. Get lunch somewhere decadent. Top off at a good coffee bar.

4. Prepare a plain, white T-shirt by painting "Off the Market" in bright purple on the back. Attach dozens of hard candies to the front of the shirt. Bribe, threaten or wheedle the bachelorette into wearing this shirt for the rest of the night.

5. Trot the bachelorette through every bar in town, and require her to ask strange men to "suck for a buck." Continue with this practice throughout the night.

6. Go to at least one karaoke bar and, as a group, belt out one or both of these songs: "Summer Nights" from the musical "Grease" and/or "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meatloaf. Accept no substitutes.

7. Rent a limo for the ride home at least. All night if possible.

8. Toast the bachelorette at every opportunity. Get others to give her a good word, too.

Tips & Warnings

• A video diary of the high points of the party can be a source of hilarity for years to come.

• Sure, this list of steps assumes you'll be drinking, but you don't have to drink to have a bachelorette party. Every one of the steps above can be done whether you're drinking cranberry juice or straight tequila.

• Rent some rooms to use as bridal party headquarters for the day of the bachelorette party.

• Please drink responsibly. Take a cab, hire a limo or designate a driver.