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	Bachelorette Parties
	A bachelorette party, hen party, hen do, or hen night, is a party held for a woman who is about to be married. The term hen party or hen night is more common in the UK, Ireland, and Australia, while the term bachelorette party is more common in the United States. The term stagette is used in Canada. It may also be referred to as a girls' night out or kitchen tea (South Africa in particular) or other terms in other English-speaking countries. The bachelorette party is modeled after the bachelor party, which is itself historically a dinner given by the bridegroom to his friends shortly before his wedding. Despite its reputation as "a sodden farewell to bachelor days" or "an evening of debauchery," a bachelorette's party is a normal party, given in honor of the bride-to-be, in the style that is common to that social circle.
	History
	The bachelorette party is consciously modeled after the centuries-old bachelor's party, which is itself historically a dinner given by the bridegroom to his friends shortly before his wedding. Although the practice of giving a party to honor the bride-to-be goes back for centuries, in its modern form, the bachelorette party may have begun during the sexual revolution of the 1960s. It was uncommon until at least the mid-1980s, and the first book on planning bachelorette parties wasn't published until 1998. Its cultural significance is largely tied to concepts of gender equality. Compared to the bridal shower, which helps the bride-to-be acquire possessions or a dowry and reinforces traditional gender roles, a bachelorette party is an expression of social and sexual freedom. Initially, parties in honor of the bride-to-be that were labeled as bachelorette party often involved displays of sexual freedom, such as trading intimate secrets, getting drunk, and enjoying male strippers. Parties that honored the bride-to-be without these elements avoided that label. Now the term is used for a wide variety of parties. The term "hen party" comes from the henna plant which is part of wedding traditions in North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. In these traditions, henna tattoos are applied to the bride's hands on the night before the wedding to protect her from the "evil eye". Henna is believed to purify the bride and thus prevent her from being affected by the influence of any evil agents.
	Entertainment
	Friends toast a bride-to-be.  Many different kinds of entertainment are selected, depending on what the organizers think will best please their guest of honor. While notions of a bachelorette party as a night of drunken debauchery persist in some social circles, it is becoming widely seen in America as an opportunity for female bonding. According to etiquette expert Peggy Post, "Whatever entertainment is planned, it should not embarrass, humiliate, or endanger the honoree or any of the guests." When held in a private venue, such as the hostess's home, the party may take any form that pleases the hostesses and honors the bride-to-be. Dinners and cocktail parties, which provide comfortable opportunities for participants to talk or to give intimate advice to the bride-to-be, are common. Other hostesses choose a themed party, such as a "pamper party," with guests indulging in spa treatments, or a cooking class. While proposing a toast to the bride-to-be is common at most bachelorette parties, some center on drinking games and host male strippers. Some parties take place in public venues, such as a restaurant or bar. Some parties are bar tours. On occasion, some bachelorette parties are organized as holidays to destinations such as Las Vegas, Nevada or other party cities. Sometimes a daytime picnic or other outing is organized in preference to the more common dinner party. It is becoming popular, at least in the U.S. to have a more formal Tea style Bachelorette party, especially in circles where female bonding is the goal of the party.
	Organization
	Participants are usually all women. Bridesmaids (if any) are typically invited, but any of the bride's close women friends may be included. This party is typically hosted by one or more members of the wedding party, although it is possible for any friend to host a party in honor of the bride-to-be. Formally, a party in honor of the bride-to-be is never hosted by the bride-to-be, although she may participate in its planning. While it is normally the duty of a hostess to pay for the entertainment she gives her guests, it is common in most English-speaking countries for participants to share the costs of this event. Whether the bride-to-be pays her share, or whether her share is divided between other participants is something to be determined by the organizers and the bride-to-be during the early stages of the planning process. Participating in a bachelorette party is always optional, and many brides decline these parties altogether. Neither bridesmaids nor other friends can be required either to attend or to pay for any part of this party. Since it is derived from a formal dinner, a bachelorette party is properly held in the evening, usually about a week (or at least a few days) before the wedding, and usually includes dinner, although alternative approaches are not uncommon.
	Commercial interests
	Many companies sell products aimed at the organizers of bachelorette parties, including packs of themed games, pre-printed invitations, decorations, novelties, and sex toys. Hundreds of websites provide ideas and suggestions for parties.
	Alternatives
	A more traditional alternative is the bridesmaids luncheon, hosted by the bride and/or her mother during the day, usually several days or a week before the wedding. At a bridesmaids luncheon, the bride often presents a small gift to each bridesmaid. If a significant aspect of the party is presenting small gifts to the bride-to-be, then the event is properly called a bridal shower. For the convenience of the bride-to-be, bridal showers are usually held earlier than a bachelorette party. A stag and doe party, also called a "Jack and Jill", "buck and doe" or "hag" (hen + stag) party, is a similar party that includes men and women. It may combine aspects of a drinking game with fundraising.
	Bachelor Parties
	A bachelor party (USA, Canada and South Africa), also known as a stag party, stag night or stag do (United States, Canada, UK, Ireland and New Zealand), a bull's party (South Africa), and a buck's party or buck's night (Australia) is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new partner might not approve of, or merely to spend time with his male friends (who are often in his wedding party afterwards).
	Events
	A bachelor party may involve activities beyond the usual party and social gathering ingredients (often drinking alcohol and gambling), such as going to a strip club or hiring a stripper, and in some traditions more hazing-like tests and pranks at the future groom's expense, which shows the whole thing is also a rite of passage from bachelorhood (associated with an adolescent lifestyle, often in the common past of most participants, e.g. in their student years) to ""more responsible"" marital life. The task of organizing a bachelor party is often traditionally assigned to a male sibling of the bachelor or to the best man. Otherwise, any (close and/or reputedly party-minded) male friend will organize it. The planned activities of a bachelor party are traditionally kept secret from the groom.
	Variations
	A stag party in MunichIt has also become common for a similar party to be held for the bride-to-be. This is known as a bachelorette party or Hen party. Formally, a party in honor of the bride-to-be is hosted by others. The expenditure, however, needs to be carried out by the person entering into wedlock. Some also chose instead to hold a so-called Stag and Doe party in the US or a hag party or hag do in the UK (""hag"" being a combination of the words ""hen"" and ""stag""), in which both the bride and groom attend.
	Australia
	Buck's nights may feature a stripper, topless waitresses and/or poker games. The groom's friends often, after heavy drinking, subject the groom to various humiliations, sometimes in public. These can include leaving him tied naked to a pole or placing him on an airplane to a remote location. It has also been quite known to start the humiliation at the beginning of the night by dressing the buck up as a female or making him wear a ""mankini"". Due to the advent of cheap travel, many parties may even travel to ""party"" destinations like the Gold Coast, thanks to a multitude of clubs, strip clubs, hotels, beaches and private ""bucks"" entertainment.
	Denmark
	In Denmark this event is called Polterabend. The typical polterabend involves the group of friends meeting for breakfast, activities such as paintball, go-karting or kayak polo during the day, dinner at a restaurant, and a night on the town. The last event sometimes, but not always, involves strippers. The groom-to-be is often unaware of exactly what day the polterabend will take place.
	France
	In France, the bachelor party is called ""enterrement de vie de garçon"" (for the groom-to-be), which literally means ""(the) burial of the life as a boy"" or ""burial/funeral of the life as a bachelor."" For women, ""enterrement de vie de jeune fille"" (for the bride-to-be) translated as ""burial/funeral of the life as a young girl."" As in English-speaking countries, such parties often feature heavy drinking and various (although gentle) humiliations, and sometimes the presence of a stripper.
	United Kingdom
	Shooting in BratislavaIn the United Kingdom it is now common for the party to last for more than one evening, hence the increasing prevalence of the phrase ""stag weekend."" A spin off has been the growth of the stag weekend industry in the UK with various companies taking over the preparation of the event. Stag Do is used more in search engine searches than stag weekends. In the UK, stag weekend trips are becoming mini-holidays with the groups taking part in various day time activities as well as the expected night out on the town. Popular locations include Brighton, Bournemouth, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Blackpool, Newcastle upon Tyne and London With the rise of budget airlines, some stags go abroad, with Krakow, Dublin and Riga topping the list, followed by Prague, Amsterdam, Bratislava and Budapest. Groups of friends attending weekends away in the UK and even into Europe with their best friend leave home on a Friday and embrace two days of fun. The groom who normally is called ""the Stag"" will have a selection of tasks to complete on the stag weekend. Group activities might include paintball, kart racing, poker parties, quiz machining, and clay pigeon shooting.
	United States and Canada
	In the United States, Las Vegas, South Beach Miami, Chicago, and New Orleans are popular bachelor party destinations; they are also popular wedding locations. Increasingly, ""destination bachelor parties"" are replacing standard nights out, with Americans traveling to Montreal (Montreal VIP has planned about 1,000 bachelor parties in the past year)and Mexico. Bachelor parties in the US often entail the mass consumption of alcohol, the hiring of a stripper and general rowdiness toward which the bride might not have a positive reaction (especially since the bride is not typically among the invitees). Increasingly, bachelor parties have come to symbolize the last time when the groom is free of the influence of his new wife. Canadian cities such as Montreal or Vancouver or Niagara Falls are popular stag party destinations due to their large number of strip clubs with ""dance contact"" (lap-dancing). Montreal in particular is popular for this purpose with both Canadians and Americans alike. The female equivalent of a stag party in Canada is often known as a ""stagette"", ""doe"" or ""bachelorette"" (in Québec)."