Results: Hen & Stag Parties
Published on 09/22/2018
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Hen & Stag (Sten) parties are those where the bride and groom both attend to celebrate a pre-wedding event. These parties or get togethers are very popular in Ireland and in the rest of the UK. Activities include skydiving, island retreat, spa retreat, river rafting, costume party, etc. If the parties are individual, then they are called "Hen Do" and "Stag Do" Which have you heard?
Hen & Stag Party (generic terminology)
16%
380 votes
Hen Do (Bachelorette Party)
12%
289 votes
Stag Do (Bachelor Party)
15%
364 votes
Not Applicable
70%
1691 votes
Sten Parties
2%
44 votes
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Check off the definitions that you know:
hen (n.) The original masculine word survives in German, Swedish, Danish, etc. German also has a generic form, Huhn, for either gender of the bird. Extension to "female of any bird species" is early 14c. in English. Hen as slang for "woman" dates from 1620s; hence hen party "gathering of women," first recorded 1887.
17%
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stag (n.) late 12c., probably from Old English stagga "a stag," from Proto-Germanic *stag-, from PIE *stegh- "to prick, sting" (see sting (v.)). The Old Norse equivalent was used of male foxes, tomcats, and dragons; and the Germanic root word perhaps originally meant "male animal in its prime." Meaning "pertaining to or composed of males only" (stag party) is American English slang from 1848.
25%
604 votes
Sten: where both bride and groom attend
4%
104 votes
Not Applicable
68%
1660 votes
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Now check off which answers are true for you:
I had a Sten party for myself or hosted one for another couple
3%
80 votes
I've attended a Sten party
6%
141 votes
Both
3%
84 votes
Neither
87%
2121 votes
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Here are some fun facts regarding Hen & Stag parties. Check off the ones you relatively knew:
Numerous sources suggest the male pre-wedding celebration dates back to the fifth century in Sparta, a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, where a raucous feast was held in order to toast the groom-to-be.
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In Wiccan religions, Celts worshipped a horned God called Cernunnos - sometimes referred to as Herne the Hunter.
5%
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The term 'stag do' for a party held for a man getting married could well have been influenced by Cernunnos' connection with the stag in rut, which led him to be associated with fertility.
5%
120 votes
The first record of a stag party getting out of hand was that of Herbert Barnum Seeley - grandson of American politician P.T. Barnum - whose stag party in 1896 was raided by police tipped off that a belly dancer was performing naked.
3%
68 votes
The use of the word 'bachelor' in the context of 'an unmarried man' is found in Chaucer in the late fourteenth century
6%
139 votes
Meanwhile the phrase 'hen do' reportedly dates back to the 1800s, where it was a term used to describe a gathering of women - though originally there was no pre-wedding context.
3%
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In America, The Deseret News noted in 1897 that a hen party was a "time honoured idea that tea and chitchats, gossip smart hats, constitute the necessary adjuncts to these particular gatherings".
4%
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In 1940, politician and activist Eleanor Roosevelt was described as hosting a Christmas time "hen" party for cabinet wives and "ladies of the press".
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By looking at Google's N-gram tool, which shows the rise and fall in popularity of keywords and phrases across five million books, use of the phrase grew from the mid-1960s onwards.
2%
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It was first used in its modern-day wedding context in inverted commas by the Times newspaper in 1976.
2%
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It featured in a story about a male stripper fined for behaving in a "lewd, obscene and disgusting manner" by Leicester Crown Court.
2%
37 votes
Not Applicable
80%
1944 votes
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Here is a list of movies that featured either Stag (Bachelor) party or Hen (Bachelorette) party. Choose the movies that you've seen:
Bachelor Party franchise
9%
224 votes
Hangover Franchise
21%
507 votes
Last Vegas
9%
227 votes
American Wedding
10%
240 votes
Jerry McGuire
30%
734 votes
Rough Night
4%
97 votes
The Stag
2%
55 votes
Best Night Ever
4%
94 votes
Very Bad Things
3%
77 votes
Bachelor Party Vegas
4%
86 votes
Bachelorette
7%
173 votes
Brides Maids
23%
567 votes
Another not mentioned
1%
30 votes
Not Applicable
47%
1132 votes
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If you were to marry now, which of the parties would you prefer?
Basic Hen Do .. bachelorette party
8%
195 votes
Basic Stag Do .. bachelor party
5%
123 votes
Sten .. for the bride and groom and their friends
14%
337 votes
No preference
16%
388 votes
Not Applicable
57%
1383 votes
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