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We haven't even begun to plan our rehearsal dinner yet, but we know it's going to be very casual. It'll most likely be in our home and we might just have it catered with something like sandwich trays. Or maybe we'll have a backyard barbecue.
But I feel like nobody does that anymore. All the blog posts and forum posts I see about rehearsal dinners are usually about semi-fancy events.
Are any of you going the super-casual route with your rehearsal dinner?
I am having TONS of family from out of town and I couldnt possibly invite some family and not others. So I am having a giant bbq at a forest preserve with volleyball nets and softball games! It should be fun and stress free! Im also making it potluck style :) I never got the point of big expensive rehearsal dinners!
Indian food and pizza at our place-is that casual enough? LOL We will have 12 out of state Indian friends and a few of my friends and mom (who don't like Indian food) so Indian food and pizza it is! :) I think it will awesome...first time my friends and his are meeting (from out of state)...can't wait!
Ours is super casual! We are having a BBQ at my FIL's house. I'm super excited about it!!! :)
BBQ at a local park. I am so much more excited about this than I would be about a stuffy restaurant rehearsal dinner. This way we can save money by making all the food ourselves and still invite everyone we want!
We're having a casual rehearsal dinner at a local chinese restaurant. It's the place where my family always goes to celebrate birthdays and other special events, and we know the service is stellar. We're going buffet style, and the place is really homey, so I'm not having a crazy ornate formal rehearsal dinner. We're not even going to decorate, unless my FMIL decides to bring things along to my hometown, which is 13 hours from where she lives.
We are having ours at the pizza place Mellow Mushroom. We are just ordering pizzas and getting several pitchers of beer. I don't know how much more casual than that you can get. :)
We went super casual and had pizza, fried chicken, etc. in a local park. We all had a blast and everyone got to know each other so much better than if we'd been sitting in a restaurant all night.
We were going to have it at a small pizzaria in my town but the pizza was gross. The Mister's parents really wanted to host something a bit more special as well but we didn't know when we were looking for sites. So we ended up going much more formal but I am missing the casual idea. I would have loved doing signature cocktails and some crafty decor.
We have the farm where we're getting married for the weekend, so after the rehearsal, we're hauling out the grill and hosting our own backyard BBQ there (not inside the barn where the reception will be though). Paper plates, maybe a keg and some sangria, an ipod for music..we're absolutely keeping it very casual (which I'm THRILLED about!)
My brothers was a spaghetti dinner at my parents house. My friends' back in November was Willy's catered at the groom's parents' house.
Ours is so so so casual. Its more of a BBQ with some catered dishes than a rehearsal dinner. At first I was bummed about it, I'd always envisioned it being in a restaurant. But now I'm happy about it. It'll be at my Mother's house so I can just sleep there when everyone leaves. And its where I'm most comfortable. We will be having mostly catered stuff though. We don't want to fuss on that day, just heat up and serve. It won't be fancy, maybe some chicken parm, a deli platter, whatever. Anything goes!
We had ours at a restaurant but it was the casual one @ our hotel. Plates less than 10, red stripes, etc.
Have your casual shindig! i'm sure people would rather attend that, to be honest.
I would LOVE to do a backyard rehearsal dinner. I think it's such a fun idea. However, our venue is a good 45 minutes away from anyone's home, so we're going to have to do it at a restaurant!
Yay, glad to hear that I'm not the only one.
I just had a good idea: we could have Qdoba cater it for super cheap (around $10pp) and then we'd buy a bunch of Corona and Dos Equis and I'd make sangria and margaritas. Fun, no?
Before reading online on various wedding communities about rehearsal dinners being uber-fancy, I was never aware that people did that, to be honest. I have always experienced and been told by everyone in "real life" that rehearsal dinners are extremely casual. Everyone has to decide what works for them and their budget. Not everyone feels comfortable at formal dinner parties either because they feel they can't relax and enjoy themselves which is what they should be able to do at a rehearsal dinner. Personally I would never want a fancy rehearsal dinner, just because the concept is foreign to me. But in the end, it really doesn't matter what other people do. It shouldn't make any difference if someone else is having a fancy formal rehearsal if you choose to have a simple casual one. As far as people "not doing that anymore" in terms of casual rehearsals, the wedding blogs and alot of the online communities have a skewed perspective of reality. What is common online is usually unheard of in real life, and most social circles do not do the same things as the ones down the street or across the country, nor do they keep up with the supposed trends that the online world wants you to believe everyone has been doing already for the last 5 yrs, when likely no one has even heard of it yet.
we are going casual with ours in the sense that the food will be casual. my dad really wants to cook for everyone, but the venue we chose for the rehearsal dinner doesn't allow crockpots or any heated items so it will be hard to keep the food warm. we thought this would be okay because we could pick up pizza from our favorite local place, pump up some good music, and let our friends/families get to know each other. (my fiance's husband is from california and our wedding is in north carolina... this is one of the few times they'll all get to meet!) and the venue (clubhouse in our neighborhood) has a balcony overlooking the pool, so the kiddies can swim if they want too! i think it'll be a really fun, family time.
i'm still wearing a cute dress to rehearsal though!!!! :)
We are!! We are going to have ours at my FIL's home in the back yard! I am super excited! FFIL is going to smoke some kind of meat and my FMIL is going to prepare the rest. After dinner we are going to play yard games!
we had a rehearsal brunch. bagels and lox, lunch meat and challah for sandwiches. my mil did it at her house, we had all family and oot friends come. very casual and very fun!
my brother's rd was at our local pizza place, followed by chicken wings and snacks at the baseball park where all of the oot guests joined us.
Ours is casual. FI and I have a favorite pizza place and since we have so much family from out of town we wanted to invite to rehearsal dinner we looked into having it there. The pizza place is going to actually close for the public and set up a buffet with lots of choices. It'll be nice where everyone can hang out and spend time together.
Ours is going to be very casual, yet meaningful. We are going to have it at the park where we had our first date.
We are going to have a casual BBQ at the lake house my parents are stying at that week. I'm really excited that we can invite everyone who is able to make it to hang out before the wedding.
We threw a burger BBQ. It was great because nearly 70 people were in attendance. We killed a whole keg that night though (so beware of how much alcohol you provide!)
Backyard BBQ over here!!!!!!
Burgers, salad, lots of grilled veggies, lots of wine and beer and we got ourselves a good time!
We had a lunch! We had our rehearsal in the morning and then lunch at an italian restaurant afterwards and it was so relaxing and fun! And lunch is much less costly than dinner is.
We are going to one of our favorite restaurants, just up the street from us. I would have liked to have something more formal.. but he is going to give us a great deal & their food is great!
Since our wedding reception dinner is a nice, sit-down meal, we wanted a different feel for our rehearsal dinner. So we are going really casual with a fish boil where all of this food is cooked in a massive pot over a giant fire outside, and then everything bursts into flames. Everyone grabs a tray, gets some grub, and takes a seat outside. Real casual. Fish boil, beer and pie :-) I don't want two nights of meals that are almost identical. I want to keep things fun.
Totally casual!! We are ordering a giant sub from Subway (We have always wanted to do that haha!) as well as pizza, garlic bread etc! Just in the backyard or something, depending on the weather!
Very casual!
We're hosting a dinner at an Irish pub. Very laid back food, beer.
I'm really looking forward to having the contrast between the RD and our formal wedding.
We're planning to having a burger/hot dog BBQ at a community shelter near Mr. Snow's grandmother's house. Not fancy at all (and not even any booze for us at this shindig), which I like!
We're having BBQ for the reception, so we wanted something even lower key than that for the RD.
I LOVE the Qdoba idea. Mr. Snow's family's handling our RD details, but otherwise, I'd totally get behind some Qdoba chips and queso!
We're having a pizza party rehearsal dinner on the 37th floor party space in our building. Pizza and opening up our liquor collection, and a great view of the lake and downtown Chicago. Super casual.
a friend is giving us her backyard for our rehearsal dinner. BBQ style, which makes me relieved!
rather have out of towners come and be a part of the special times....
We are just having dinner at our favorite mexican restaurant. I'd love to have a BBQ at my parents, however I don't want to burden anyone with cooking/cleaning the night before the wedding
We're hosting and serving a mix of regional favorites and family recipes. We both have family in Texas, and he's from the Rocky Mountain West, so we went with a cowboy theme.
We had a dessert bar and you-call-it speciality coffee 'welcome party' (we didn't do a rehearsal) for all our OOT guests. It was awesome. We had the exclusive use of a little mom-and-shop coffee bar after hours--they had a giant table of homemade desserts for us (cheesecake 'lolipops', mmmmmm) and baristas made up whatever drinks folks wanted.
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