'Man Shower': Twitterers React To Possible New Trend For Grooms

It's no secret that brides receive a lot of attention during the wedding planning process.

But let's be honest: Grooms often get overlooked in the flurry of wedding dress shopping excursions and elaborate girls-only bridal showers. If a wedding is an equal union between two people, why shouldn't the groom partake in the excitement and festivities, too?

That's why idea of a "man shower" -- the male equivalent of the bridal shower -- has emerged in recent years. These showers give friends and family the opportunity to celebrate with the groom and shower him with (often stereotypically masculine) gifts that he might appreciate for married life, such as tools and gadgets.

For many in the wedding industry, "man showers" aren't a surprise. "[Grooms are] saying, I've been doing all this work. Here's my opportunity to have some fun," Summer Krecke, executive editor of WeddingChannel.com, told MSNBC in 2008. “They're wising up to the fact that there are gifts involved."

According to Krecke, the parties are a natural progression of the grooms' increased involvement in wedding planning -- and stores are taking note. In 2006, Lowe's Home Improvement launched an online wedding registry -- a sign that "man showers" might be on the rise.

We wanted to find out what you think of "man showers," so we polled our Twitter followers to get some answers.

Click through the slideshow below to see the responses.

Comments

[fivehole84]

09:48 PM on 04/15/2012

It is almost like you wont stop until every guy is gay. Remember when you tried to force us all to be metro-sexuals? We told you no then, and we will continue to say no. You want us to be all sensitive but when it comes time to fix something, all of a sudden you want us to be manly again.
Men do not like bridal showers, or shower showers. We like not owning an iron, sleeping in a bed without sheets and drinking bourbon for breakfast. I like owning 3 tvs and no tables. I like that I own milk older than I am. Stop trying to change me.

[bkmil]

09:42 PM on 04/15/2012

Arnold Schwarzeneger was right when he said it a few years ago, but then wimped out, and had to take it back, men today are a bunch of girlymen. With the acceptance of homosexual marriage, these weird wedding trends will unfortunately continue.

[Joseph Leslie]

09:39 PM on 04/15/2012

I thought that it was a replacement for the Stag Party. I thought the Groom got to take a shower with a woman of his choice, before marriage and kids ended his sex life!

[lunarsnowstorm]

08:13 PM on 04/15/2012

Next thing they will have the men wear wedding dresses. Find your nuggets and just say no.

[mxwllk]

06:33 PM on 04/15/2012

There really isn't any need for anyone to have a shower. Aren't the wedding gifts enough?

[blinn8656]

06:26 PM on 04/15/2012

Where is the booze and strippers?

[mission impossible]

05:41 PM on 04/15/2012

A man should not be having a shower all he needs is a keg party. Men are so losing their masculinity. I feel sorry for women today. There are no more real masculine men in the world. They're either gay, metro sexual (and take longer pampering themselves than their girlfriend does), or just plain weak and lazy. So sad.

[bkmil]

09:43 PM on 04/15/2012

Thats what the feminist movement wants/

[nornor13]

04:16 PM on 04/15/2012

The only shower a man needs is to wash his dirty butt b4 going to bed enough said !

[dd00405]

04:11 PM on 04/15/2012

wow, I don't think I've ever read something so ridiculous in my life. If your "man" has a shower, and your a woman about to marry him...I'd worry a little. C'mon now, totally unnecessary.

[imatowncrier]

04:06 PM on 04/15/2012

The only "Tool" a Guy needs is Between his Legs!

[hman570]

03:52 PM on 04/15/2012

wow this is so news worthly that I can't think a much to say, except Huffington has got to hire better reporters.

[Jake Masterson]

02:35 PM on 04/15/2012

Now people will be stuck with giving MORE gifts. Bridal shower, bro shower, engagement gift and then wedding gifts. Then divorce shower.

[Dancenownzen]

02:29 PM on 04/15/2012

all these backward comments about " Man" and "sissy" etc

the ONLY thing that makes a "man" a "man" is anatomy PERIOD

[wildtill9]

08:06 PM on 04/15/2012

Thank god that intelligence isn't one trait or you would be in real trouble

[Dancenownzen]

02:24 PM on 04/15/2012

Why have a shower?
Why have a wedding?

with a 60% divorce rate ........... buy YOUR OWN STUFF and live together

[ebuist1825]

03:45 PM on 04/15/2012

Makes sense to me! Fanned & faved!

[mrbill7820]

01:53 PM on 04/15/2012

Showers have just become " Gimme Parties". The purpose of a shower was to set up the couple in housekeeping, to give them gifts like dish towels , pots and pans, a broom!!! Now it is all atrocious wish lists from bridezillas... and now we have groomzillas to attend to? BTW, second marriages DO NOT need wedding showers!!