Wedding Project Revisited: Advice Cards

Remember those advice cards I made for everyone to fill out at the rehearsal dinner?

(Photo by Sarah Immel Photography)

Well, we still have ‘em and we LOVE going through them when we hit one of the milestones listed on the envelopes.  I thought you might like to see how we’re storing and saving them!

We keep the unopened cards in one of the baskets we used for our “Tears of Joy” tissue packets at the wedding.  Man, I love these little baskets!  They’re so stylish and the envelopes fit perfectly inside them.

As for the cards we’ve opened? We keep those in a simply black photo album.  They fit perfectly!  And since there’s usually two cards to open for each occasion, this little album works great.

We store the album and the unopened cards underneath one of our side tables in the living room.  You can see we’re using another of those baskets to hold all of our coasters.

The cards have been SO fun to read.  This was the list of occasions we used (the ones that are bolded are cards we’ve already opened):

On Your Wedding Night
On the First Night of Your Honeymoon
On the Night You Come Home from Your Honeymoon
On the Night of Your First Married Fight
On the Night One of You Burns the Dinner
On Your First Night as Homeowners
On Your First Anniversary
On Your Fifth Anniversary
On Your Tenth Anniversary
On Your Fifteenth Anniversary
On Your Twentieth Anniversary
On Your Twenty-fifth Anniversary
On Your Fiftieth Anniversary
On the Day You Find Out You’re Expecting
On the Birth of Your First Child
On the First Night Home with the New Baby
On Your First Child’s First Day of School
On Your First Child’s High School Graduation
On Your First Night as Empty Nesters
On the Birth of Your Second Child
On the Night One of You Loses Their Job
On the Night One of You Leaves Their Job
On the Death of a Parent
On the Death of Your Animal

Some of the cards have been funny, some have been heartfelt, and some have been a mixture of both.  My favorite one so far came from my dear friend (and one of our ceremony readers!), Jordan:

(And such a lovely reader she was, too!  We actually fist-bumped
through the air across the church from each other when she was finished. 
It was awesome.)
(Photo by Sarah Immel Photography)

She wrote On The Night One of You Burns the Dinner…

“Throw it out and order a pizza…on me!”  She included $20 in the envelope.

And Jordan, we did just that.  Thanks, doll!

What fun projects have carried over from your wedding plans? 

City Chic Nuptials: Fiesta!

Last we left off, we had finished up rehearsal and walked over to the restaurant for our rehearsal dinner.  If you’ll remember, we planned a fiesta theme…and I am happy to say all my fun projects and centerpieces turned out really great!

So we ate, we talked, we had people fill out our advice cards…and then we handed out our gifts.  And then—AND THEN—I fell on my ass.

Literally, I fell on my ass.  Down three steps.  And totally cried my eyes out and felt so embarrassed…and got a huge bruise on my arm.

I can look back at it now and laugh, but honestly, at that moment, it ruined my night.  I cried a lot and was a complete emotional wreck after the fall…and I will admit that I HATE that that is pretty much the only memory I have of our rehearsal dinner. 

So, here’s the pictures to remind both you and me that despite me falling on my ass, it was a really fun time!

Bride and Groom, getting ready to hand out gifts!
I really love this photo of us–it is one of my favorites
from the whole weekend, actually.

Handing out gifts—not sure what the heck I am doing here, haha.

Me with a  few of my girlfriends

My mom showing off the diamond rings we got our mothers!

Brad and some of his friends

Andrew and Guido showing off part of their groomsmen gifts

UGLY CRY FACE.  This is post-fall, obviously.  My mother-in-law gifted me with a beautiful necklace for being her first daughter, so I was crying about that from happiness, too!  (Oh, and hello, boobage.)

Me with my family.  Um, typical.

And our new combined families!

The one thing I didn’t get a picture of was me and my bridesmaids.  I really wish I would have done that!  So note for you future brides out there:  hand someone your camera and tell them what you photos you want.  We were lucky in that we have a lot of snap-happy friends and family who took tons of photos for us, but I still miss that shot of my bridesmaids.

Speaking of photos, remember all those projects I did for the rehearsal dinner?  Well, they all turned out great.  The advice cards were really fun and they have been awesome to read over the course of our marriage so far—I actually have a separate post planned to show you how we are storing and saving those!  Our photog also snapped a bunch of great photos of some of our rehearsal dinner details (I had a lot of the stuff stored in my hotel room)!  Here they are:

The nametags
Photo by Sarah Immel Photography

The Advice Cards
Photo by Sarah Immel Photography

Bridesmaid Gift Bags
Photo by Sarah Immel Photography

And our centerpieces!
Photo by Sarah Immel Photography

And with that, we were ready to get married.  I headed back to the hotel and Dr. Groomy stayed out a little longer with his friends.  I was really tired, really emotional, and feeling all sorts of different things.  So here’s my advice, kids:  don’t sweat something small (like falling on your ass) but don’t deny yourself those feelings either.  I was really glad I got everything out on Friday instead of being really sad/fucked up/emotional on our actual wedding day.  It’s OK to feel that way—getting married is a huge thing and a lot of times, the planning gets in the way of really wrapping our heads around that.  Take some time and really reflect upon it!

Next week starts the actual wedding day recaps…woo woo!  Stay tuned!

Missed something?
First I got a mani-pedi with my sister, then I cried.
Next, we headed to church to rehearse.

*All pictures by my friend Jenna, unless otherwise noted.

City Chic Nuptials: We Rehearse!

Last we left off, I was an emotional mess in the hours leading up to our rehearsal.  Soon enough, though, it was time to gather with our family and friends at church and go through the events of the next day.

Our church is gorgeous, isn’t it?  Sigh, we love being a part of this parish so much.

Our rehearsal was actually really easy.  Our awesome priest, Father Mike, totally handled the whole thing for us! 

His ‘stache is the most awesome thing.  EVER.

First, we all gathered at the front of the church.  We sat down, while Father Mike addressed us out front, going through the whole Mass for everyone.  Then we walked through everything, and that was pretty much it!  Super easy.

My dad and I walked down the aisle…

We practiced our vows…

Up at the altar

Hanging out at the rehearsal. 
I was finally feeling better and was SO happy the whole time!

Everyone recessed…

Our Flower Girl & Ring Bearer.  Look, it’s the candy ring bearer pillow & lollipop pomander I made!  Cass is already eating a lollipop, haha!

Here are the girls hanging out at the rehearsal while we were up at the altar.  You can see the awesome practice bouquets I made!  My sister and Hayley’s faces in this photo are classic:  “Uh, WTF?!”

And some of the boys hanging out.  Looks like Lem, the guy on the left, is the only one paying attention! And of course, Guido has one of the kids’ lollipops.

Maid of Honor and Best Man recessing.  Jeff is REALLY into his role, obviously.

Kristin & Bill. 
He’s most certainly thinking, “Thank goodness this is over, let’s have a beer!”

Andrew & Beezus

Hayley & Guido.  Oh, Guido…our most inappropriate friend by far.  I’m not sure what’s going on here, but you can rest-assured he is saying something either a) totally gross, or b) totally sexual.  God bless her for grinning and bearing it!

Kate & Lem

And with that, our rehearsal was over…but our night was just beginning!  Up next, we feast!

Missed something?
First I got a mani-pedi with my sister, then I cried.

*All photos by my father-in-law or my lovely friend, Jenna.  Thanks for being great photographers, guys! 

For Practice

So, as I told you on Monday, I finished a lot of miscellaneous projects this past weekend.  One of them was a project I have had in mind for a long time, but wasn’t sure I was going to be able to do.  Then I was a really lucky bride who had multiple showers, and I knew it would work!

BRIDESMAIDS:  PLEASE LEAVE NOW.  This is a little somethin’ somethin’ fun for you!

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I don’t know where I first saw or heard this idea, but someone once said to me that it’s always good to have your bridesmaids practice holding their bouquets, just as the bride does, for good placement during pictures.  So, since I had two shower bouquets, I used the one from my first shower thrown by Brad’s parents to create mini rehearsal bouquets for each of my bridesmaids!

I used some leftover silk flowers from our rehearsal dinner centerpieces,  some bows from my first shower bouquet, small paper plates, pipe cleaners, and a few pieces of ribbon I had laying around the house.  I also used some Crate and Barrel grosgrain ribbon from a few of our wedding gifts to wrap each stem! 

 
Close-up

And from the side.  Notice the cat hunting an unsuspecting bird on our deck!

I know that a lot of people probably think this project was totally unnecessary, and I am sure it is.  But, it only took me around 20 minutes and now each of the girls has a mini bouquet to rehearse with when I rehearse with my big bouquet!  I thought it would be a fun little extra.  I plan to create a lollipop aisle pomander and ring bearer “pillow” for our little ones to practice with, too!

A quick word on proper bouquet placement:  Don’t carry your bouquet too high or too low! A great tip I learned is to think about keeping your thumb near your belly button, so that your forearms fall nicely across your pelvis, like so:

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For more great tips on holding your bouquet, check out this GREAT blog post by Monica from the former White Box of Wedding Design here in Milwaukee (sadly, now closed).  It has some great pictures of the right and wrong ways to hold your flowers!

Besides proper bouquet placement, what are some other tips you can share for bridesmaids?  I’ll go first…my number one tip?  SMILE when you’re walking down the aisle!!

*All photos by me unless otherwise noted.  Please do not use them without my permission!

Rehearsal Dinner Centerpieces

So remember when I said I had a lot of projects to blog?  Here comes round two…I finished our rehearsal dinner centerpieces!

I decided to use tin cans and fake flowers for these centerpieces…not only to save on cost, but so that I could get them out of the way now rather than later.  Plus I think the more casual tin cans go great with our fiesta theme!

Making these was really easy.

Step 1.  Collect a lot of tin cans.

Step 2.  Soak said tin cans in a sink full of soapy water, so the labels are easy to get off.

Step 3.  Scrape off the labels on each can—this should be pretty effortless.  If not, soak a little longer!

Step 4.  Rinse and dry the cans.  Soon, you’ll have them stacked on the counter like this:

Step 5.  Print your design in Microsoft Word or the program of your choice.  I went with our casual monogram (seen here, here, and here) and the words “Amy & Brad’s Rehearsal Dinner” plus the date. 

Step 6.  Measure your cans and cut the design accordingly.  Run through Xyron or use another form of adhesive.

Step 7.  Attach design to tin can!

Step 8.  Stuff flowers.

And that’s it!  You’re left with this:

 
Front

Back

As you can see I alternated colors on the design.  I also bought both red and blue flowers…I am thinking I might rearrange so that some centerpieces are just blue and some are just red.

What is/was your rehearsal dinner like?  Did you do a lot of hands-on decorating for it? 

Real Wedding Recap: Noah & Jill, I

This past Sunday, our dear friends Noah and Jill tied the knot.  These two are so special to Dr. Groomy and I, and we were so excited to be invited to celebrate with them.  [Back story:  Noah, Dr. Groomy and I all attended college together at UW-Madison.  Dr. Groomy and Noah were very good friends, but as can sometimes happen, they drifted apart a little after college.  Last year, at the wedding of another set of wonderful friends, Andy and Amanda, in the Dominican Republic, we were able to reconnect with Noah and his lovely girlfriend, Jill.]  Over the last year, we have become incredibly close with them, and I cannot tell you how much we value their friendship.  It has been wonderful getting to know and celebrate them as a couple, and it all culminated in their big wedding weekend in Chicago!

I took over 90 photos this weekend, so this recap is going to be in three parts.  Let’s get started with Saturday evening and the rehearsal dinner!

We arrived in Chicago via train around 4:30pm and immediately headed over to the wedding hotel, The Ambassador East.  It was a lovely hotel, with beautifully appointed rooms.  Many of our friends were there already and it was wonderful to see everyone.  Once we checked in and headed up to our room, we were delighted to find we had received an Out-of-Town Gift Bag!

The bag contained the following treats:

 Left to right:  Two water bottles, some BBQ & Original Jay’s Potato Chips, Garrett’s Popcorn (holy yum, that stuff is one of my favorite Chicago staples), and two boxes of Fannie May chocolates.

Jill also included a welcome note for all of the guests, as well as a second page with plenty of information on how to get around the city.

 
Getting an OOT bag was such a nice gesture and it definitely confirmed my plans to do some for our wedding!

After freshening up and changing, it was time to head over to the rehearsal dinner, hosted by the groom’s parents.  The rehearsal dinner was held at Sapori Trattoria, a lovely little Italian restaurant near the hotel.  The party was held in the back room, and all of the out-of-town guests were invited.

(Our Table)

The food was DELICIOUS and you could just feel the excitement in the air.  Behold, the happy couple:

After the rehearsal dinner, we went out with the bride and groom to a bar down the street.  Needless to say, it was a late night, but a great way to start out the celebrations!

Once we got back to our hotel room, I stepped out of the bathroom to see this:

 
Um, that would be Dr. Groomy’s version of closing the curtains after a night of drinking.  He didn’t realize there were blackout curtains behind the white panels!  Hilarious.

Stay tuned for part II of the celebrations tomorrow!

Past Real Wedding Recaps:
Charity & AJ
Nikki & JT

*All photos by me.  Please do not use without my express written consent and permission.

Rehearsal Dinner Revisited

Well, kids, I’ve had the “four-month-freak-out,” which means a lot of sudden spurts of DIY!  Remember this post, where I talked about the advice activity I wanted to do at our rehearsal dinner? Well, I completed the component parts last night!

Since our rehearsal dinner guest lists tops out at around 50 people, I decided to do two envelopes for each life event.  Here are the life events I used:

On Your Wedding Night
On the First Night of Your Honeymoon
On the Night You Come Home from Your Honeymoon
On Your First Night as Homeowners
On the Night of Your First Married Fight
On the Night One of You Burns the Dinner
On Your First Anniversary
On Your Fifth Anniversary
On Your Tenth Anniversary
On Your Fifteenth Anniversary
On Your Twentieth Anniversary
On Your Twenty-fifth Anniversary
On Your Fiftieth Anniversary
On the Day You Find Out You’re Expecting
On the Birth of Your First Child
On the First Night Home with the New Baby
On Your First Child’s First Day of School
On Your First Child’s High School Graduation
On Your First Night as Empty Nesters
On the Birth of Your Second Child
On the Night One of You Loses Their Job
On the Night One of You Leaves Their Job
On the Death of a Parent
On the Death of Your Animal

I wanted us to be able to open some right away, but save others for years!  It will be fun to open them throughout our marriage, I think. 

This project was really quick and easy.  Using our rehearsal dinner motif, I made labels for each of the envelopes that listed the life event on them.  On coordinating, pre-cut cardstock, I glued a piece of regular paper, again in our motif, that says “Please Share Your Advice, Wishes, or a Special Message on this Life Event.”  Here’s what the coordinating pieces look like together:

(Sorry for the use of the flash—I took these pictures at night and just could NOT get enough light on them!)

And some close-ups:

Open the envelope, and…

 

 Knock another one off the DIY list!  I also recently finished up the other paper products for the rehearsal dinner.  Behold:

Nametags drying…

And our “Thank You” Banner for the table where we’ll put our wedding party’s gifts!

I finished the invites, too, but you’ve already seen those.  Up next is finishing off the menus, centerpieces and favors…and then the rehearsal dinner will be all done.

What’s been your easiest DIY so far?

All photos by me.

Share Some Advice, Hey?

If that title doesn’t sound like  a Wisconsin accent, I don’t know what does!  Haha!

First off, great feedback on my last post regarding guest list/save-the-date issues.  It’s nice to know we’re not alone in dealing with this type of thing.  It seems everyone has drama at some point or another, so it’s great to be able to discuss it openly!  Today, though, let’s discuss something a little bit more fun.

I am not sure where I read about this next idea, but the minute I read it, I flagged it as something I wanted to do at our rehearsal dinner:

“My MOH brought all the accoutrements for what was a brilliant idea: she had everyone take a piece of paper, a pen, and an envelope, and write a major life milestone on the envelope (i.e. the day you get back from your honeymoon or when you have your first big fight or the day your first child is born) and then write us a message for when that time came. It was a really sweet idea and I was so touched that she orchestrated the whole thing. We’ve already opened a few and they have been so thoughtful and have contained such fabulous advice.”

What better place than a gathering of our close family and friends to ask for advice and messages on our major life milestones?!  I immediately sent this idea to my maid of honor and one of my bridesmaids with the message, “Remember this, I want to do it at our rehearsal dinner!  One of you remind me!” 

My MOH, otherwise known as my fabulous sister, Ali, did remind me of this this morning, since I have been working so diligently on the details for our rehearsal dinner.  I’m thinking I’ll get envelopes and card stock to match our rehearsal dinner invitation suite, and provide everyone with a pen and piece of cardstock that has printed paper mounted on it.  Picture this:

I’ll print the major life events on a cute label that will be stuck on the envelope:

 

And everyone will write on paper (mounted on the colored cardstock) that looks like this: 

Neat idea, right?  I am so excited for this!  I just need to finish up the invitation suite and I can purchase the supplies for this project and get that out of the way, too—and I need to come up with a long list of major life events!  Ideas, anyone?  🙂

Are you incorporating a way to receive advice from family and friends into your wedding?

Rehearsal Dinner: Fiesta!

If you’re here for a Fitness Friday post, I am sorry to disappoint!  Unfortunately, the person who does my fit evals no longer works at my gym—something I just found out last night.  So, I have to make an appointment with a new guy to do an eval and I won’t be able to get in until next week.  In the meantime, however,  I wanted to talk a little more about our rehearsal dinner.

As a reminder, my “goal” for wedding planning is to have absolutely nothing to do during wedding week, ala Miss Star on Weddingbee.  As such, I have been trying to tackle everything and anything I can ahead of time, to continue to stay ahead of the game.  Since we booked our rehearsal dinner last week, I decided why not go ahead and plan the food, decor, and invitations right away, so that it’s all out of the way and done…so this week, I’ve been doing just that!

When we were exploring different options for our dinner, one idea we tossed around was to hold the dinner at a local Mexican restaurant.  Dr. Groomy is WELL KNOWN among our friends and family for his love of insanely spicy foods (I swear, he has no taste buds), so Mexican is one of his favorite meals to eat out.  We ended up nixing the idea, as we were afraid that authentic Mexican would not bode well for some of our guests.  When we booked our dinner at Flannery’s, though, we were delighted to see that they had an option for a taco bar!  Perfect…everybody loves tacos, and guests can customize them how they like.  Once we decided that, it was very easy to pick out a “theme” for the dinner:  we’re having a fiesta!

I was very inspired by this rehearsal dinner seen on Style Me Pretty.  Here in Milwaukee, we are very lucky to have Broadway Paper, a lovely paper and stationery store in town.  I immediately hopped over there to get my creative juices flowing, and ended up picking a color palette we both really love!  Then, I set about designing invites and other stationery to go with the theme.  Let’s start with the invites first, shall we?

I fell in love with long envelopes and decided they would be perfect for these invites:

(Front)

(Back)

I created a wrap around label thanks to some help via Twitter from these lovely ladies.  Em is even going to send me some of her labels to use—thanks girl!  Close-up:

Let’s open it up!

I am seriously in love with this color combo—it’s like an aqua and a deep red.  Perfect for a Mexican fiesta, I think!  And here’s the actual invite:

You may notice the wording is a bit different from most rehearsal dinner invites.  Well, we did this on purpose.  Since we are hosting the dinner, it felt funny to have the invite read as though we were honoring ourselves (Example of more traditional wording:  “Please join us at a rehearsal dinner honoring Bride & Groom.”).  Instead, we decided we wanted to use this opportunity to really thank—and honor—our family and friends.  We are keeping the guest list small for this party on purpose—just our immediate families & wedding party (and anyone else who is involved with the wedding, like readers and gift attendants)—because  we really want to take this time to celebrate and appreciate THEM.

You may also recognize the monogram and fonts I used:  yep, they’re from our Save-the-Date!  What can I say, I love the motif!

[Random side note:  I am thinking about rounding the corners of the invites.  What do you guys think?  Can anyone give a recommendation for a good corner-rounder?]

Because we will be giving out our gifts to the wedding party and family at this event, I decided to make a banner for the gift table.  I still need to string it with ribbon, but the letters look like this:

 

Cute, no?  I also read somewhere that to make rehearsal run more smoothly, it’s a great idea to have nametags for everyone…so your officiant or coordinator knows who everyone is and can better run the rehearsal.  Most people at this event will know each other, but I still decided to make nametags so people like my grandparents can get to know our friends.  Here’s what they’ll look like (I just used my mom’s and dad’s for example!):

I still have to laminate them and attach a pin to the back, but at least you get the idea!

And here’s the whole shebang thus far, all together:

I am so excited—this project has been really fun so far and it has brought a lot of joy back in to my wedding planning.  Not that I wasn’t enjoying it, of course, but I have been feeling really stressed about other parts—namely registering and our invites for the actual wedding.  These projects and planning this dinner have been a welcome change!  I have a lot more tricks up my sleeve for this party, including cute table decor (hot sauce bottles, anyone?!), menu tents for each table, and a super awesome idea for a cheap and easy—yet totally awesome—favor.  Stay tuned!

Are you having a themed rehearsal dinner?  What are you doing for invitations, decorations, and the like?

*All photos by me!

Rehearsal Dinner: Check!

As I mentioned on Friday, we booked our rehearsal dinner location!  It feels great to have another thing checked off our list.  When we started researching our options, we had a list of criteria we based it on.  Namely:

*Close proximity to the downtown area…extra bonus points if the location is close proximity to the church.

*Affordable and laid-back.  Listen…it’s no joke that our wedding is going to be costly AND pretty damn formal.  We wanted the rehearsal dinner to be more casual, and we didn’t want to blow a whole wad of extra cash on it.

*Private party area.  The rehearsal dinner guest list is pretty small in comparison to our actual wedding, but we still wanted a private space where we could entertain family and friends.

*Relating to us somehow.  We want to make sure that the rehearsal dinner really feels like “us,” since we’ll be celebrating with only immediate family and friends that evening.  We wanted a place that had a bit of history for us.

We physically looked at a lot of different places, and we probably researched at least a dozen more.  Dr. Groomy created a big spreadsheet on Excel for us to work off of—it was actually really great to have his involvement with this, as I was feeling pretty overwhelmed by the whole thing.  Because our rehearsal dinner isn’t being hosted for us in the traditional sense (we are acting as the hosts), it was really on our shoulders to narrow things down and pick the place.

A top choice for me was our favorite restaurant in our neighborhood, Palms Bistro & Bar.

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We love this restaurant, and it’s where we went for dinner the night we got engaged!  It’s not as close to the church as we would have liked, but it is in the general area we were looking.  Alas, their catering menu was too expensive for what we were looking to spend.  Onward!

Next we took a look at the Milwaukee Ale House. 

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We love this place.  Great location—again, right in our neighborhood—and they have AWESOME beers made right there on site.  They also sport good food and a private party room downstairs.  We thought this would be the clear winner, but again, their catering menu was ridiculous—in some cases, the prices were nearly twice as expensive as their regular dinner menu.  Um, no thanks!

It was at this point that we decided to move our search closer to the church.  We really didn’t want everybody to have to worry about parking and there are plenty of restaurants right on the same block as the church, so everyone would only have to park once for the rehearsal and then could walk to the dinner.   We started our search at Taylor’s, which is a martini bar right on Cathedral Square in Milwaukee.

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Admittedly, this is not my favorite place to frequent.  They have good drinks but to be honest?  The clientele tends to be a bit pretentious.  It’s just not as laid-back as we are; however, on researching their options, they seemed to have a pretty great set-up:  no charge for party space and they’ll help you cater (as they don’t have a full kitchen).   It seems like they really want to help you throw a fun party.  I was all about it…until we walked in.  We hadn’t been there in awhile (see aforementioned pretentious-ness) and we neglected to remember that their “party space” is actually just a small bar area off to the entrance.  Albeit their great location, there was no way we’d be able to fit our party into that space.  Boo.  So, we sat and had a drink and pondered our next move…when Dr. Groomy suggested that we head around the corner and check out the bar next door.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!  Flannery’s Bar & Restaurant is caddy corner across the street from our church, so the location is perfect.  Everyone can park for the rehearsal and not have to move their cars again (as parking in downtown Milwaukee when you don’t want to pay for a ramp can be a bit hectic).  They have a huge party area we’ll be able to utilize, complete with three booths, a bunch of tables, and our own full-size bar (not to mention dart boards, too!) We will also have our own bartender and server.  The food prices are great and the alcohol prices are really good too—plus bar service is fully customizable, so we can tell them exactly what we’ll pay for—and what we won’t.  (Read:  I will not be forking over cash so our groomsmen can get Dr. Groomy drunk on whiskey shots, haha!).   But what about that last little detail we wanted—a place that relates to us as a couple?  Well, ironically enough, we actually ended up celebrating at Flannery’s the night we got engaged.  After we went to dinner at Palms, we met my bridesmaid B and some friends out at this bar to celebrate.  And then when B and her boyfriend Trav got engaged?  We celebrated here again too!  I can’t believe I didn’t think of it earlier.

So rehearsal dinner is checked off the list.  What a relief!

Have you booked your rehearsal dinner location yet?  What factors mattered to you?