Thoughts on a combined bachelor/bachelorette party?

We didn't have one, but it sounds fun! We considered a combined camping trip but decided to do our own. It might be fun to plan a morning/early day event separately then come together for dinner and some other event too?

My fiancée and I did separate but both joined on each other’s. 😂 It was a lot of fun! We had a little time by ourselves before joining each other.

I want to do a group axe throwing class! We have mutual friends so it felt weird to separate for the bachelor parties.

So we are only combining some activities of the bachelorette/bachelor trip. We are all traveling together to Vegas, staying in the same hotel (different suites). We will have a nice dinner together and probably meet up to do the ziplining together but otherwise we are doing things separate. It's only 2 days really so there isn't too much that can get packed into those days. It doesn't sound bad to do everything combined if you would like! We just know we wanted our girl/guy time separately. Plus it would be too many to coordinate without getting overly annoyed.

We are actually doing something similar. We have a lot of friends in the community and feel it would be weird to have two separate parties for many of the same people. We almost skipped the whole thing but we want our friends to have a chance to celebrate with us before the big day. Especially since some can't make the wedding. She even got the idea of throwing garters since we will not be doing that at the actual wedding. And like you said it will be a great way for some of your guests to hang out before the wedding.

We ended up deciding to do different things, but at one point talked about having separate groups barhop through downtown with the intent of meeting up at some point during the night. I liked the idea of things with just the girls, but also have a ton of guy friends that I'd like to celebrate with too.

We want to do this. I am not a big partier and neither is he. We don’t want to go out and do the “normal” party stuff. We are thinking of just having a BBQ!

We didn't have that but we coincidentally had our separate ones on the same day aha.

I think that would be so much fun. We did ours separately because most of my bridesmaids live in a different state, but if everyone would have been local I think this would have been really fun. If you still wanted to have some time with "just the girls", you could plan something during the day where the guys do one activity and the girls do another, and then you could meet up for dinner/drinks that evening.

I haven't done that for us, but I have been to one like that. It was fun for the guests, but they only did it because they didn't trust each other LOL The other ones i've been two have been individual. I wouldn't mind doing it if we were having them.

My FH’s first real wedding input was that he wants to do a joint bachelor/bachelorette party. We each only asked two people to stand with us, and since his GM lives in South Korea it would be hard to come for a bachelor party and the wedding a few months later. My bachelorette party wouldn’t have been just the girls anyways and I think it’ll be fun to all hang out together for at least part of it. My MOH really wants to take me to Vegas and FH was excited about that, but we have several ideas of local things to do too. There’s an archery dodgeball place in Denver that I suggested too, because healthy competition 👍 lol. Other ideas my MOHs and I brainstormed were winery/brewery/distillery tour, Dave and busters, cabaret/burlesque show, dueling piano bar, ropes course, zip line, baseball game.

I haven't done one but my FH and I are considering doing one.

I attended a Jack & Jill party and it was the worst! It was really the groom's bachelor party with some bridesmaids in attendance. The bride caved and let the groom and his family have full control. It was a night of pizza, video games, and laser tag. The groom also invited his 13 y/o brother (usher), so that immediately eliminated anything that involved drinking.

I think it's not a bad idea! I'd just make sure the activities are enjoyable for everyone

Ours is this Saturday actually! We are doing a joint “battle of the sexes” party. We are playing games like corn hole and flip cup etc... not sure what the prize will be but I’m sure the girls will win

We had one. We both had two people in our parties and got married in a city where none of us live. So we had our party at a bar/restaurant with a pool - played some games, swam. It was good fun. Plus, a lot of our friends hadn't met each other before so it was a great chance for people to hang out before the wedding.

We considered it, but ultimately the scheduling didn't work out. We did have a combined shower, though!