I’m getting married tomorrow, so today will be my final post about the origins of various wedding traditions:
FACT: The bachelor party dates back as early as the 5th century B.C., when the ancient Spartans celebrated the groom’s last night as a single man by holding a dinner and making toasts on his behalf. The term “bachelor,” originally meaning “a young knight-in-training,” was first mentioned in the 14th century to refer to an unmarried man in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.