The Best Man's Almanac

Within a year of being a best man twice, I got married, made an offer on my first house, and began trying to start a family. It’s not a coincidence. Acting as a best man comes at a pivotal time in a man’s life, usually in the sweet spot when anything from your professional career to love life has finally started to take off (If your best man is single and his greatest achievement to date prominently involves an arcade machine or eating contest, you might want to rethink your options). For most guys, the experience of being a best man can be a defining moment and a chance for a man to enjoy transitioning into adulthood with some of his closest friends. It feels good to be reliable. It’s what a man should feel like.

When I was searching for my responsibilities as best man, I talked to brides and looked at a lot of bridal magazines and websites- I even sat for several minutes in the relationship section of my local bookstore. It was a struggle, but I endured it because bearing the yoke of relationships tests and didactic articles exhorting me to remain sober was the price I believed I had to pay to succeed. I am still visited by nightmares of hurricane globes amid wedding centerpieces. Over time I found bits of the information I needed and cobbled the rest together from common sense and the sage advice of romantic comedies. But what I couldn’t find was a text that was authored by a guy in my position- someone offering frank advice from the perspective of a best man in a way that I wanted to read.

And so THE BEST MAN’S ALMANAC was born. It is a collection of those stories, male intuition, and historical moments that have defined the role of best man. This work is the happy result of a career spent writing for Hooters Magazine and Bust Magazine, which despite their similar nomenclature, have radically different editorial missions. Yet, it is not written at the expense of women or from a crude male perspective. It’s an honest and funny look at what you have to do in the weeks leading up to a wedding as a best man. It’s the book for men who want to help make sure a wedding goes smoothly and would ask for advice if they only knew who to ask or where to look.
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