Your best friend is getting married, and you’re responsible for sending him to marriage in style. You would like to throw him a bachelor’s party he will remember for years.
However, with the option of booking a venue, food, beverages, activities, and transportation, expenses quickly balloon out of control. The last thing you need is to run into cash or tax your guests at an unreasonable cost.
The good news? You can have a great bachelor party without breaking the bank. Make things different, go places, organize parties, and make people experience unforgettable moments without running everyone out of money.
Here are ten bachelor party ideas to provide excitement without breaking the bank. It’s time to send your friend off to marriage in a big way!
Backyard Games Battle
Throw a backyard game fight at someone’s house to be informal and cheap. Grill up burgers and dogs and some barbecue favorites. You should have cold brews on hand to keep the party going.
The big thing? A battle royale of lawn games, such as cornhole, giant Jenga, bocce ball, spike ball, or ladder golf. Divide up and shuffle games and keep a scoreboard for friendly competition. Prize a team who wins!
Since the backyard will make space for it, you will mainly deal with party food requirements. This fact lowers expenses and provides hours of entertainment and connection. So, take the fraternal competitiveness of fumble games and throw a brilliant bachelor party.
Camping Trip Guys Getaway
For a guy who is just looking to escape in the great outdoors, book a campsite for a boy's weekend. Pack them up - tents, sleeping bags, lanterns, camp chairs - and hit a local campground or state/national park.
Day hike nature trails, fish, play cornhole or frisbee and enjoy the outdoor surroundings. Then, when it gets dark, make a fire, cook hot dogs and marshmallows, tell jokes, and be silly.
Most of your costs will be on campground fees and gear, making costs minimal. Planting your roots is a perfect low-key send-off to marriage.
Beach House Bash
For bachelor parties along beaches, rent a beach house together for the summer experience. Get to the beach early to surf and hang by the sea. Then, get ready for the main attraction.
Turn the radio or Spotify, set up the grill for seafood and kebabs, sip iced tea on the deck, and relax under the sun with the best guys. Go out in the evening for bonfires along the beach, bars with a band, or an informal poker or cornhole tournament at the beach house.
Divide the rent, and you'll have a place to sleep at an affordable price. Stick to low-key fun, and you'll have a stunning beachfront bachelor party without the high prices.
Sail & Sip
For bachelor nights by the sea, consider Sail & Sip cruises. These low-cost floating parties include dining and drinks as you sit back and watch the view from your window. Depending on the package, live entertainment, dancing, and other activities onboard are also available.
A floating feast and dance! It only costs your ticket for the two-hour boat ride. All the rest comes included, from the food and uncapped drinks to gorgeous waterfront views. You are boasting ice-cold beers and having the groom’s big day at home without breaking the bank.
DIY Brewery Bike Tour
Make a DIY bike brewery tour if the bachelor party loves bikes and beer. Figure out a plan to go to about 2–3 local breweries within biking distance. Bike racks to store bikes and pedal everywhere.
Tour the tanks, meet brewmasters, and taste flights. Make it a riding-and-tasting experience! Ride through parks and trails between stops to pump up the adrenaline. Tow up at a local watering hole for dinner and more drinks.
There’s a fee for samplers and food; otherwise, the bikes and riding are reasonably fun. Party ahoy, pedal time!
The Ultimate Arcade Night
What about video game entertainment without the Vegas prices? Please bring it to a fully equipped arcade bar with skee ball, air hockey, pinball, racing, and shooting games.
Give them tokens so they can enjoy the games all night long. To keep the party going, serve pub fare such as wings, nachos, and sliders. Cash bars allow customers to order their drinks.
Entertainment is, for the most part, in entry tickets or token packages. These are gaming, bonding, and battling hours at a decent price—no betting required! Let the arcade war begin.
Bar Golf Pub Crawl
Hold a bar golf tournament to give the pub crawl a bachelor party twist. Turn bars and pubs around the city into "holes" and send teams to go bar-to-bar, solving ridiculous "hole" challenges.
Hole contests include karaoke, dance-offs, club sandwiches eaten in 60 seconds, team selfies, and more crazy-spinning bar competitions. Set up scorecards and pencils and give a trophy to the winning team at the end.
The price you pay is the transportation between bars and your drink. And if not, you'll save little money and rack up laughs and memories in this clubbing bachelor weekend. Fore!
BBQ & Bocce Bash
Get out the grill and the bocce ball for a laid-back bachelor party in the park. Go to a park nearby with a grill, tables, and space for bocce balls and other lawn games.
BBQ mainstays: Brisket, ribs, chicken, hot dogs, and more. Play yard games all night. Imagine bocce ball, corn hole, giant Jenga, spike ball, ladder golf, or croquet. Add a foot race or water balloon toss.
With public park space as your setting and everyone bringing food and games, it’s a Sunday bachelorette bash.
Pub Crawl Poker Run, Washington, D.C
Combine two of your bachelor party favorite activities – pub crawling and poker – and host a poker pub run. You can start with the "hole" bar and give a card game to each guest. They take that hand with them when you go out to eat and play, drawing cards from that pile as you go. The final 5-card hand gets to keep a prize!
At every stop, pause for specials on food and beverages. Bring silly mini games such as beer pong sink shots or jukebox karaoke. Ultimately, you’ll be friends over laughs, hands, and pubs.
Bar tabs and taxiing back and forth keep this poker-pub-crawl affordable.
Paintball Wars
Prepare for battle in the paintball adventure. Go to your local paintball range and grab a mask, vest, and carbon tanks. Break up into groups and fight it out in adrenalin-charged paintball terrain.
A day spent running into turrets, crawling behind barricades, and smearing your opponents with spray paint. Stop for meals, drink, and socialize before returning to combat. You can dress up the groomsmen’s crew in camo fatigues and face paint.
Many parks offer low group rates with all the gear, so you get a day full of action-packed thrills that won’t run your pocketbook.
Final Thoughts
An epic bachelor party doesn’t have to be pricey. Using any of these low-cost ideas can give the groom a great time without breaking the bank.
Design the places, engage in low-key connection over food and drink, and transform games and outdoor adventures into star attractions. It’s the memories - not the money - that count.
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