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A friend is loaning us her house and backyard for rehearsal dinner. Since the actual wedding festivities are formal, the rehearsal dinner is going to be a Texas style backyard big family barbeque. Long banquette tables. Margarita machines, sweet tea, the works. Everyone in the wedding party are bringing a side: mash potatoes, mac and cheese, etc. S'mores in the fireplace for dessert!
@ Miss Yap - that is totally awesome! I love that RD concept =)
since he is a caterer, one of his company's biggest clients is a winery. They do parties AT the winery and so we are having our RD there. :)
course, the awesome thing is, too - this means our wine/champagne for the wedding will be CHEAP AS HECK! hehe.
that is so awesome, JuneBride!! cool locale and you will get rockin pics!
We are having a hard time finding our ideal RD venue!! Hopefully it'll come together soon!
We're going to be having the RD at my Mom's place. She's an awesome cook and it'll be nice and cold out, so I'm thinking stew and fresh bread! *drool*
We're trying to figure this out right now. We're looking at 3 very different ideas (the wedding is in Bar Harbor, ME):
(1) A lobster bake -- comes out at $40 per person, plus the cost of rentals for tent (maybe), tables, chairs, and table linens
(2) A restaurant in Bar Harbor -- about $30 per person before drinks, tax, & tip
(3) a BBQ restaurant -- by far the cheapest option, and seems really fun and tasty (and a good contrast to our wedding night food!), but we're still looking into whether they can accomodate our group
We had our RD at my sister's house. We wanted it to be in her backyard, but the weather didn't cooperate, so we were inside. We had Italian food (which represents my family heritage)--my mom's lasagna and garlic bread. We wanted something super laid back and relaxed. It turned out great and was an awesome opportunity to just chill out with our friends and family before the big day.
we're 1.5 years away but right now we're planning to have a huge bbq at our house, which from the sounds of it is a very popular idea!!
We're renting out a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place. I'm going to avoid eating the food, even though I love it. I just want as little sodium as possible. :p
FI's parents decided on the place, its this really old style BBQ joint in Austin. The place looks like an old country store from the outside & we have an area reserved in the back "yard" they will have a live band there too, so I'm super excited! Plus it gives me an excuse to wear my new cowboy boots!
We are having it at this Italian place called Sonny's, the food is awesome, it overlooks a lake, and best part is FI's parents are footing the bill. It will be really fun and a little more fancy than what we could have afforded if we were paying for it ourselves.
@fiftyfootbride - I'm with ya. No matter where we end up having it, I'll be watching my sodium and carbs.
We are debating between an awesome Mexican place that gets rave reviews, a sports grill that has pool tables and darts, etc, and small family-owned Italian place. We are going to check each one out on our next trip up there.
Grape Creek vineyard in Fredericksburg, Texas. It has an Italian feel to the event room and beautiful Oak trees with white lights strong from tree to tree. If weather permits we get to eat outside under the trees! I am not sure what we will eat just yet because my FMIL wants to do a tasting. But I think it will be a carving station because she keeps talking about that menu selection. I have the centerpieces figured out which are wooden wine boxes with our logo branded on the sides and beautiful mix of flowers in shades of red, peach and pink! The vineyard will have us select wines from their selection and we get to do a wine tasting with them too! My favorite part :)
We have some time before we really plan our RD but we've always wanted to have it at the bar/restaurant where FI and I are regulars. Our wedding will be quite formal so we're thinking of a more relaxed atmosphere. I think a less formal location will really help break the ice and encourage everyone to mingle.
We are having ours at a resturant on Mackinac Island where the wedding will take place. I am not sure what restuarant though. I gave this job to my FMIL :)
Both me and my FI voted for Italian! (it's our fave food) So FPIL reserved a private room at The Macaroni Grill.
I've been seeing a lot of RD on blogs and some couples go ALL OUT. Like, it's practically another wedding reception. It would be fabulous to have such a posh RD, but I can't imagine spending that much right before the wedding.
Our RD is at the same venue as the engagement party last February. It's both of our favorite restaurant, and most of the WP couldn't make the engagement party anyway. We're serving three options due to the variety of dietary issues...1) The Vegan: Pasta, basil pesto and portobello mushrooms (mostly for FH and me) 2) The Vegan + Chicken (for our non-red meat friends) and 3) Beef Marsala (for the red-meat freaks)
Each of these will have a Farmer's Market Salad with apple, goat cheese (except vegans) and raspberry vinaigrette and for dessert a wild berry tart. FI's uncle owns a liquor distrubutorship (thus why I'm marrying him...j/k) and he'll be supplying wine and champagne. Very excited!
We're having ours at McCormick and Schmicks, a seafood chain. Sooo yummy. I think our RD food is going to be better than the wedding food hahaha. Looking forward to eating some tasty salmon (I haven't been watching what I eat before the wedding....so why worry the night of the RD...bad bride I know).
Upscale restaurant down the street from where we're having the wedding.
MEXICAN! My FI are known for being in LOVE with Mexican food. I am not a big chain resturant fan and I was looking to take my OOT guests to something unique. I just found it this past weekend. Modern, fun atmosphere. I can't wait to actually plan the menu and send the invites to our guests.
If you have a big wedding party and are planning on giving them gifts with a few speeches try and get a seperate room from the rest of the restaurant. That way everyone will hear you and everyone can enjoy themselves together away from regular resturant partons..i.e. nosy eaters.
@Noelle-a-Belle: mmmmmmmmmm yummy. Can I come? ;)
We're probably going to have the RD at the venue, because it's the only restaurant that is convenient to get to from there and all of our VIPs live in different directions around LA. That means it will be formal American style food, which... bores me. It's a different menu from the wedding, at least, but I *really* wanted to go with something much more casual!
We had our rehearsal dinner at the Queen Mary in Long Beach in a private room. It was gorgeous and we had the back of the boat's deck all to ourselves. My in-laws chose the place, FIL always wanted to have something there and it was right down the street from my wedding venue so it was perfect. We had hors d' oeuvres and a chicken dinner!
We're having ours at Buca di Beppo. (It's a family style Italian restaurant). We wanted something more casual since the reception will be more formal.
We really want to go to this yummy Thai restaurant that will privatise the upstairs room for us (hard to find private rooms for 30 in Paris...), but FFIL would prefer if we chose a French restaurant for the Americans.
FMIL is hosting our RD at the House of Blues!! It has a really funky/urban vibe, with fabulous southern cuisine and live music! We are really excited and know that our guys will really enjoy it!
I am so excited for the RD!
We're having a horseshoe bar at a local pub (in Springfield IL). If you watch Man vs Food on the Travel Channel, it was featured on the show recently. It's awesome, and with lots of out of towners, we wanted to showcase a local specialty.
It will be really casual and laidback. Perfect for the night before the big show.
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I'm back with a RD post!!
Where are you eating? What are you eating? How did you decide on that location?