My Rehearsal Dinner Dress

Look the dress I wore for my rehearsal dinner was worn as a bridesmaid dress in this wedding! And crap there are a lot of bridesmaids!! The wedding is super cute though!(Photo by Vue Photography)

I'm Back . . . Really

Hi everyone, so sorry I disappeared for a few days . . . I hadn't missed a day since I started this blog till last week, so I am a bit disappointed in myself, but I promise I will make it up to you!

I don't have the professional pics back, but I do have a few from family and friends that I will start sharing soon. In the mean time I will finish up with some of the other things I wanted to share before the wedding and just ran out of time.

Anyway . . . here is a quick few of my rehearsal dinner invites!

I went a bit with the bluegrass theme cuz I thought it was really cute, plus it really fits M and me. We served BBQ chicken with my family's secret BBQ sauce, potato salad, a garden salad with nuts and berries, BBQ beans, fruit salad . . . probably a bunch more as well, but honestly I don't remember . . . oh and the best part . . . strawberry shortcake, with seriously the best shortcakes in the whole world. I wish I had pictures of everything, but somehow not many pics were taken. I have a few and M has a couple as well, but that is about it. I think there is one pic of me from the whole evening and I am taking it (me and my cousin) and maybe one of M as well. Guess the party really wasn't about us! Oh well. I thought my invites were cute. I will talk more about Pink Lily Press (the fabulous designer of these and my wedding invites) when I talk about my wedding invites . . . I promise I will do a blog about them soon too.

And More Gifts

We have lots of people helping with the wedding. Cooking for the rehearsal dinner, marrying us, reading during our ceremony, setting up the reception. Here are some of the things we have bought for these wonderful people! They were all bought at the local Portland Saturday Market (one of my favorite places in the world).
Hand carved wine stopper and cork screw.
Hand carved wooden salad servers.

We also bought a beautiful glass vase, but they packed it up so well that I didn't want to undo it just to get a picture. I will have to take one at the rehearsal dinner so you can see it. Super pretty!

I love this Wedding #2 . . . or should I say rehearsal dinner

This has to be the cutest rehearsal dinner I have ever seen!! And I am jealous . . . she basically got to plan another huge event. I love planning my wedding and seeing all the details come to life. She got to have another theme, another color scheme, another look! I love everything I see and I can't have everything in my wedding without it looking crazy!! I wish I could have a rehearsal dinner like this, but I don't think this bride had the same kind of budget that I do!! Enjoy the pics. Oh I found this on Snippet & Ink.

This reminds me of M too. The bride and groom bought bandanas as napkins. M used to always carry a bandana in his pocket and it was amazing how often we would end up using it. It was one of his cute country boy qualities that I love. Too bad he doesn't carry one anymore. Maybe I wll remind him!

I love strawberry shortcake!! I wish I was daring enough to serve strawberry shortcake at my wedding instead of cake, but I love all the wedding traditions and cannot imagine not have the traditional cutting of the cake pictures and everything. Oh well. I will steal this for our rehearsal though. Berries are amazing in the summer in the Northwest, so it should be delicious!!

Take a look at the napkins . . . they have banjos and guitars on them. M plays the guitar and I play the banjo (or used to) . . . I love this little design! They used it and had a bluegrass theme . . . I love bluegrass!! I love this!!

A pinata?? How much fun!!

A fire pit and s'mores . . . I might be able to do this too.

We are probably going to have our rehearsal dinner in my parents backyard. It will be some kind of BBQ something . . . so this kind of theme will probably work for us!! We shall see. I just love this way too much. Hope you all enjoyed!!