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Here Comes The Groom PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 18 May 2007

ImageEveryone knows wedding presents are really for the bride. We love our crystal candy dishes, two dozen monogrammed linen napkins with their sterling napkin holders and our vases, from bud to bouquet.

The guys are feeling left out. They spring for the ring, and watch the women run the show. But not any more. Now they can hop over to www.groom2b.com and register for gifts and maybe even get a present that has a practical, everyday use.

The couple behind the website, Dana Weisberg of Warren and her fiancé Steve Zeller of Manhattan, launched the business in November. Their slogan is “because men get married too.”

The groom2b website offers gifts like entertainment centers, outdoor barbeques, dartboards, pool table equipment, and humidors. Things for the rec room or to put around outside around the pool. Not to decorate the dining room table or breakfront.

What inspired them? Steve told us, “a lot of my friends are getting married and they’re tired of all the Pottery Barns and Tiffanys.”

Also, when a close male friend living overseas married a woman who was unknown to Steve, he was at a loss as to what to give the couple. Gifting for the groom was the only solution.

“Women still dictate what goes on in a wedding,” says Dana, “but men need to have a present too.” The men were “feeling a little neglected” Steve says. Now, they’re on equal footing.

For now, Dana and Steve are living the life of their customers, and planning their wedding, and thinking about their wedding gifts. Some will be from Bloomies and Tiffany, others, from groom2be.

They’ll be learning the first lesson of marriage: the art of compromise.

 

 
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