A hen night is often a raucous occasion, even more so when the hen is one of your closest friends. With my best friend’s hen night happening just last week, I thought it was time to share my top 5 ways/tips to survive your best friend’s hen night.
1. Pre-prepare
If you are only going out for drinks, make sure you have a stodgy meal such as pasta or something just as heavy to soak up the alcohol. You’ll be thankful later on. If you are going out for a meal, do the same – that meal will help you later on.
2. Stick to one drink
I am awful for doing this – and even mixed my drinks last weekend, feeling the worse for it on Sunday morning until I took some painkillers and had some caffeine. Sticking to one drink may be hard if there are other options available but it definitely won’t make you as ill.
3. Drink water in between alcoholic drinks
If you really don’t want to wake up with a hangover, drinking water in between alcoholic drinks will help. Alcoholic drinks dehydrate you which is why you always want more. Drinking some water in between will quench your thirst and stop you from drinking a few too many – after all, you’ve got a hen night to enjoy – you want to remember some of it!
4. Keep what you take out to a minimum
It is so easy to be tempted into getting really drunk on your friends hen night – and this could lead to you losing your personal possessions or even getting them stolen if not careful enough. Keep the contents of your bag to the absolute minimum – that way if you do lose things, you haven’t lost everything.
5. Enjoy yourself
Yes, you do want to make sure that the hen is enjoying her night but you also need to let go of the worries and make sure you enjoy yourself too. Have a couple of drinks (soft drinks if you don’t drink alcohol), throw some shapes with your friends and make some memories. After all, it’s your friends ‘last night of freedom’ – you want it to be a good night, right?
Nice tips 🙂 This would have been useful last year when I was in that situation haha
Mixing drinks..something I may be guilty of!
I’m always guilty of it, oops!
One glass of water to one glass of wine seems to work a treat.
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It really does!
Oh yes, mixing drinks all night long isn’t going to be good in the morning!
Great tips Rebecca, thank you!
No problem!
One pint of water to an alcoholic drink always works well for me, not that I ever drink any more. Great tips for any night out!
Thanks Erika!
This made me chuckle – Hubby has just returned from a stag weekend and lets just say at the age of 42 he came back broken – he didn’t follow any of your advice!
Haha, men eh?
Tips 2 and 3 make a lot of sense but I find that sense goes out of the window on a hen night!!
It really does, haha!
I simply cannot stick to one drink, I have to have a different cocktail overtime I get a drink, thankfully I have a sensible head and as soon as I start feeling tipsy I stop drinking – I learnt the hard way in my teenage years LOL
I know what you mean, so many cocktails to try haha
Great tips! I am guilty of mixing my drinks….Oops! You’d think we’d know better the older we get…lol
Ah but where would the fun be in that? lol
haha great tips i loved being at my best friends hen do it was deffo a crazy one
Thanks Lisa!
Spacing yourself out and drinking water is so important. Might not be able to stick to the one drink though 😀
I agree, so important! Haha, no I know that too!
Aw I hope you had a nice time and stop mixing those drinks Bex!! lol x
Sorrryyyy x
I got married this May but did not have a hen do like that as not my kind of thing we went for afternoon tea and spa treatments .x
That sounds perfect!
Sounds like you had a good night!
Good tips, especially about mixing your drinks. I’ve come to the sad realisation that wine gives me terrible hangovers, I’m better off sticking to spirits.
Yeah, wine sometimes does the same with me!
I hope you have enjoyed the night and no-one ended up with too sore a head :-)!xx
We all felt fine – still not sure how! Haha x
Great tips =)
Water is a great tip, it use to really help me in my student days!
Can’t beat good old water!
I should have been reading this a few weeks ago! Now I have another on the horizon so some tips learnt x
Have fun!
Oh gosh, not sure I could cope with the resulting hangovers again these days, but oh so many funny memories!
They’re so much fun!
Great tips, I will have to take notice now that I suddenly have hangovers, I think it may be related to turning 30 last month!
I think we start to get them more as we get older… not good 🙁
I am a non drinker, which makes it great for being the designated driver!
Great tips although I find my inability to have one means everything else goes out of the window. Except having fun! I hope you all had the most amazing time 🙂