I’m a wife and mom of two daughters. My daughters are 12 years apart so that keeps me quite busy and a little crazy at times. My life is a jumble of mixed up mishaps, but it’s always centered around my family.
Rehearsal Dinner
June 3rd, 2009 by Connie RobertsOy vey! I never knew that a rehearsal dinner could cause such drama. Since all of the guests on my daughter’s side of the wedding are coming from out of town, it would be nice to have them invited, but that’s the problem, there’s a lot of us. And we’re not paying, the groom’s family is.
So the rehearsal dinner is going to be two nights before the wedding. Then there’s going to be another, smaller dinner the night before the wedding. My daughter said that she and her fiancee are going to pay for that. I can’t see this happening so I’m sure we’ll be paying. I have no clue what my family is going to do Friday night. I’m hoping that most of them won’t be there. This is quite embarrassing.
Any advice?
June 4th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
No useful advice. But hang in there!
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June 4th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I’m trying. Weddings are pretty darn stressful.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
We had the same problem with out of state guests. We ended up ditching the formal rehearsal dinner idea and just did a big BBQ. One of the hotels had a pavillion and grills that we could use, otherwise we would have used a local park. But it turned out to be great fun. The wedding party was all there, everyone involved in the wedding, and then we got to spend some time with the folks who had driven 12 hours to be there for us too that we probably wouldn’t have had otherwise. It ended up being most of my family and friends since I was the out of stater, but you could add in key groom’s family too…
June 10th, 2009 at 12:40 am
I’m going back oh let’s see 27 years is it… but we did the BBQ thing, too. And it was lots of fun, I think more fun than sitting down to a formal-type dinner at a restaurant or what have you. People were relaxed, comfortable, could walk around and do their thing. It just worked out very well for us.
Good Luck!
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