Boys’ Night Out

The bachelor party. The very utterance of the phrase can make young wives cringe and their bridegrooms turn away with sheepish smiles. The event is a rite of the nuptial passage, as much a part of pre-wedding tradition as selecting a china pattern and sending out calligraphic invitations on heavy-stock paper. It is the night when a man prepares to leave the wild, wide-open landscape of bachelorhood for the quieter, more manicured setting of married life.