~THE REHEARSAL DINNER~

Remember my previous blogs about the rehearsal dinner and how I wanted to do cute little place cards made out of tree circles? Well, after my brother so patiently cut 30+ pieces of wood for me...and I lugged them back to Oklahoma...they ended up molding in the Oklahoma humidity. I didn't have the heart to tell my dear brother, and was quite disappointed. So the name cards ended up still being cute, but not the "it" factor that I would have liked.

Part 1: cutting leaves at 1 am. Being that it was a fall New England wedding...the whole idea was centered around leaves changing color. Good thing I picked up these fake leaves at Hobby Lobby before we left because it rained for 2 days before the rehearsal, which would have been VERY nasty to pick up actual leaves in.

Part 2: The actual wedding rehearsal was right before the Rehearsal Dinner, which made it impossible for me to be the control freak I am and get to layout every decoration that I had carefully packed and shipped up to New Hampshire.

These two tables were in the corners of the room and housed a walk down memory lane for Jeremy and Tina. I had been gathering embarrassing pictures of my brother for a few months, and I completely forgot to email Tina's parents to see if they could gather some too. Betsy, her mom, did a wonderful job of getting them to me in a hurry! Thank you, thank you! All of the pictures were a surprise for Jeremy and Tina and will be featured on a Way-Back Wednesday post soon. I've been waiting for months to post some of the pictures!

The Rehearsal Dinner had wonderful food at the Coach Stop, including fish (for the New Englanders) and chicken and pork (for the Okies). There were other great side items too--quite possibly one of the best meals that I've ever had before in bulk like that.

the happy couple--Jeremy got a new hat from the Figenbaum's. It didn't fit his head, typical :)

Mom and Pops with Jeremy

cousins picture again

and the new tradition for the Frost/Figenbaum father's: a purse pic (Bob walked past me holding Betsy's sparkly purse and said, "Lydia, you can't take my picture with this on...". Wrong thing to say to the picture freak, Bob. And thus, a new tradition is born...)

More wedding posts in the near future :)