Bachelor & Bachelorette Party Shirts: Designs, Names and Group Ordering

In Canada the bachelor party is often called a stag and the bachelorette a stagette. Ontario adds a third party that surprises people from elsewhere: the stag and doe, also called a Jack and Jill or a buck and doe depending on the town. Friends throw it for the couple before the wedding, usually in a community hall, with tickets sold ahead and at the door, games and prize tables, and the money raised goes toward the wedding. Manitoba has the same idea and calls it a social.

Each one needs different shirts, because different people wear them and the shirts do different jobs.

Two grooms or two brides? Same system: one design, and each of you in your own colour.

Stag and doe shirts work the hardest of the three. The crew is on its feet all night selling tickets and running games, and guests need to find them in a crowded hall, so the back does the work: a name, or a job such as TICKETS or GAMES, big enough to read across the room. That crew often spans a wider range of ages and sizes than a stag or stagette, from the couple’s friends to their parents, so collect real sizes instead of guessing. Our event shirts page covers crews like this one, from volunteers to reunions.

The bachelor party shirts and customized bachelorette shirts that people keep wearing follow one pattern: one shared design, something personal on each back, and the guest of honour set apart by colour rather than by a different design. The group looks like a group in photos, and every shirt stays in the same price break.

The front is the shared part. It carries a crest with the couple’s initials, a line you wrote, the place and the date. Our standard full-front print is 11″ wide and starts 3″ below the collar; a left-chest logo is 3.5″ wide. A small chest crest with the big artwork on the back is the version people wear again, because it reads as a shirt rather than a costume.

The back is where each shirt becomes someone’s. The studio’s Team names & numbers chart takes one row per shirt: a name, a number and a size. The name prints across the upper back and the number large below it. Names can run to 20 characters, so BEST MAN, MAID OF HONOUR or a nickname all fit; numbers can be up to three digits, and either one can be switched off.

The number is where the wedding goes: the last two digits of the year (26), the day of the month, or how many years the couple has been together. A four-digit 2026 won’t fit the three-digit box, so put the full year on the front or the sleeve. Our standard sleeve print is 3″ wide, which is about right for a date.

Paste the list straight from a spreadsheet, one shirt per line, like “BEST MAN, 26, XL”. The chart fills the size boxes from it, so nobody counts sizes twice, and before you pay the studio shows every back and asks you to confirm each name, number and size. The names print in one of six ink colours (white, black, red, navy, royal blue or gold), our designer lays them out with your artwork, and each personalized shirt costs a bit more than a plain one. Our guide to ordering names and numbers covers spelling checks and duplicates, and how to design a custom t-shirt covers the front artwork.

No minimum on DTF and DTG — we will print a single shirt. A stag of eight is a normal order, and a full-colour crest with a different name on every back is the job DTF printing does well: there are no screens to make, so the eighth name prints as easily as the first. Full-colour DTF sits slightly higher per piece than screen printing, with no setup fee.

Where the count matters is the first price break. In the studio the per-piece price drops at 12, 24, 50 and 100 pieces, and the lower price applies to every shirt of that garment in the order, not just the ones past the line. If your crew is 10 or 11, type 12 into the size boxes and compare the totals before you decide. Going from 10 to 12 adds less than two shirts at the 10-piece price would, and at 11 the twelfth can cost a fraction of a shirt.

Those extras earn their place. Someone confirms late, someone’s partner wants one, someone ordered a medium and is not a medium. Add them after you save the names chart: it fills the size boxes with one shirt per name, and anything you add on top prints without a name, so it fits whoever needs it. Put them in M, L and XL, where most adults land.

At the other end, a shirt for every guest at a wedding weekend, 100 people or more, is a different job. Orders in the hundreds are usually screen printed and quoted directly, so send the count through the free quote form. A screen-printed t-shirt runs roughly $12–$18 CAD each at 50 pieces and drops under $10 each in the hundreds.

Every colour of the same garment in one order counts toward the same price break, so the guest of honour can stand out without costing anyone more: 11 navy tees for the crew and a white one for the groom are priced as 12. It works across designs as well; in the studio, two designs on the same garment in one order count together. Different garments count separately, so the tees and the caps each have their own count.

Setting it up takes one extra step. A names chart belongs to one design in one shirt colour, so set the groom’s or bride’s shirt up as a second design, with the same front artwork in the other colour, and give it its own one-line chart or a single line of text on the back such as THE GROOM. Each chart has its own ink colour, and that matters: white lettering vanishes on a white shirt, so if the crew’s navy tees carry white names, the groom’s white tee needs navy.

Pairings that photograph well, all from the cotton tee’s colour range:

• Black crew, white guest of honour. The strongest contrast, and the easiest to spot across a golf course or a crowded room.
• Navy crew, Sport Grey groom. Quieter, and easy to wear again after the weekend.
• Light pink, sage or light blue crew, white bride. The classic look for bachelorette t-shirts: white stays the bride’s colour, and a soft colour keeps the crew from looking like staff.
• Two colours for a joint party. Groom squad shirts in navy, bride squad shirts in sage, the couple in white. It is still one price break, because it is all one garment.

The same one-design, several-colours approach works for a family trip or a reunion; see our guide to family vacation and reunion shirts.

The weekend picks the garment more than the design does. Everything in this table is in the online studio, and every colour of each garment pools toward its price break.

Tees. The Gildan 64000 is 100% ring-spun cotton at 4.5 oz (the heathers are 65/35 poly-cotton), semi-fitted and true to size. The 100% polyester tee is a Team 365 performance knit with its own size chart, and it runs roomier in the smaller sizes: a medium measures 21.5″ across the chest laid flat, against 20″ on the cotton tee. We don’t stock tank tops, so the polyester tee is the beach shirt. Open the studio with the t-shirt already loaded, or browse the colours on the design your own t-shirts page.

Caps. The studio cap is a structured trucker with a solid front panel, a mesh back and an adjustable snapback that fits most adult heads (about 21″–24″). The logo sits on the front, half an inch above the brim, printed or embroidered, and a small crest suits it better than a long line. It is the piece that comes along to the golf course, the boat and the patio; start on the custom caps page.

Hoodies and crewnecks. After sundown at a cottage, fleece beats a tee. The Gildan 18500 hoodie and 18000 crewneck are 50/50 cotton-poly fleece, and the hoodie also comes in 100% polyester. One shop number worth knowing: a hoodie’s front print stops at the pouch pocket, about 9″ down, so the big artwork goes on the back and the front gets a chest crest. The crewneck has no pocket, so its front takes a fuller print. Load a hoodie in the studio to see both sides.

Anything else, such as toques for a winter stag or tote bags for stagette welcome bags, goes through the free quote form rather than the studio.

Every group order that runs smoothly has one person running it: usually the best man or the maid of honour, sometimes whoever volunteered first. One person collects everything, places one order and gets one price break. Twelve friends each ordering a single shirt all pay the 1–11 price and each pay for shipping; one order of twelve gets the 12-piece price for everyone.

Collect four things in one form with a hard closing date: the name or role for the back, the size, the number if you’re using one, and the money. Take the money with the size, not after the shirts arrive; an e-transfer at sign-up saves a week of reminders. Decide early whether the crew is covering the guest of honour’s shirt, and split it. Our guide to organizing a group apparel order has the form and the follow-up in detail.

Sizes are where small crews go wrong, because everyone answers from a different brand. Send the size chart with the form and ask people to measure a tee they already like: lay it flat and measure straight across the chest, 1″ below the armholes. On the cotton tee, a medium is 29″ long and 20″ across. It is a unisex cut, and people who usually wear a fitted women’s tee often find one unisex size smaller fits. Our t-shirt size guide walks through it.

If the groom’s shirt is a surprise, don’t ask him: ask his partner, or measure a shirt he wears often. And before you paste the list into the chart, send it back to the group. People spot a misspelled nickname in their own name in seconds, and the chart prints exactly what you approve.

Standard turnaround on clothing is 1–2 weeks. Most apparel orders can rush — 4–5 business days or 1–3 business days, priced at checkout — and every order shows the dates it will be ready before you pay. The date that matters is the day the group leaves for the cottage or the city, not the wedding, and the shirts have to be in the organizer’s hands before it.

We ship Canada-wide, including the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Montreal; shipping is quoted for your postal code and shown before you pay. Send the box to the organizer’s home, not the rental, so it isn’t left on a cottage porch. In Ottawa, ask us about pickup. Everything is printed and decorated in-house in Ottawa, so there are no cross-border customs holds on the way to you.

A stag and doe counts back from a different date. If the crew will wear the shirts while selling tickets in the weeks before, the shirts need to arrive before ticket sales start, not the night of the party.

A bachelor shirt travels further than the party. It is on the train, at brunch, on the golf course, in a hotel lobby and in the photos that end up in the wedding slideshow in front of both families. A useful test: would the couple be happy to see it on the screen at the reception?

• Tease the guest of honour, not the partner. A joke about the groom’s golf swing is fair; a joke at the bride’s expense, or about the marriage itself, lands badly a month later.
• Keep the front clean and put the inside joke on the back. The front is for the public; the back and the sleeve are for the crew.
• Skip the swearing and the drinking jokes. They don’t survive brunch, the golf course or the family barbecue, and they tie the shirt to one night.
• Write it yourself. A casino logo, a beer-label parody, a sports team’s crest or a famous movie line is someone else’s property. Your own line is funnier anyway, because it is about your people.

Lines that need nothing borrowed: the groom’s surname plus INVITATIONAL for a golf day, ONE LAST CAST for a fishing stag, the lake’s name and the date for a cottage weekend, the bride’s name plus SQUAD for a stagette, or the couple’s initials in a crest with EST. 2026.

Photos. The groom’s face on every shirt is a stag classic, and it is fine when he is in on it. Ask first, and never print anyone who hasn’t agreed to be on the shirt. If it is a professional engagement photo, check with the photographer. Send the original from the phone, not a copy saved from a group chat or social media, which is compressed: at our standard 11″ print width, a print-ready file is 3,300 pixels wide. Most phone originals clear that; a screenshot doesn’t. More on printing photos on shirts and on which photos print well.

Customers can design their own product free at yayaprints.ca/mockup-creator — upload a logo, place it on a real garment, add print-quality text, choose colours and sizes, and order online without emailing or phoning anyone. For a crew, that means: load the shirt, place the shared design, paste the list into Team names & numbers, set up the guest of honour’s shirt in their colour, then check the total at 12 before you settle on a count.

Every order gets a free digital mockup on the actual product before any payment. Nothing prints until the customer approves it. A human designer then reviews the order before it goes to press, checking artwork resolution, colour, sizing and placement. The spelling of the names is yours, which is why the chart asks you to approve every shirt.

Rather talk it through? Use the free quote form, call 613-666-9292 or email order@yayaprints.ca; we serve customers in English and French. Our t-shirt printing page covers the methods behind it. And after the weekend, wash the shirts inside out in cold water and hang them to dry: cotton can shrink a little in a hot wash or dryer.