The Knot Guide for the Groom Book

While I'm sure most of the tips and advice in this book will be stuff that will come in handy as I prepare for my own wedding, there's a few issues I have with the book itself. First there's the assumption that either of our parents are paying for the wedding. I suppose that's usually to be expected, but there's not even the pause of a moment to say "the bride's parent's are PROBABLY paying. And if they're not, here's some budgeting ideas." Perhaps this just isn't the book for that topic, but it stuck in my craw.

The other issue is that it assumes one of us is a woman. Obviously that's just the nature of a book about traditional weddings, but it also assumes that the woman in question verges on a blabbering idiot because her wedding it happening. There's some fairly masochistic moments in the book, including a mad libs style sample for vows which read "When you cry, I will [manly verb]". By the final page, I don't know that the couple described in the book should actually be married. With all of the advice, the groom will have an excellent and beautiful wedding, but will face the ultimate moment of truth where it seems entirely likely that the bride, instead of gracefully walking down the aisle toward him, will flip her dress up over her face and spin around and around until she knocks herself out by running into a wall.