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Stag & Hen Party HQ

Did you know 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.

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.

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 It was first used in its modern – day wedding context in as little as 1976 by the Times news paper featuring a story of a male stripper fined for behaving in a “lewd, obscene and disgusting manner “by Leicester Crown Court