How To Plan A Rehearsal Dinner
Top wedding pros share their expertise on ways to plan this significant and personal celebration. By Elizabeth Jenkins; from Summer 2006
WORK BACKWARD
Your rehearsal dinner should end no later than 11 p.m. to ensure that you and the groom get some beauty sleep. Therefore, planners suggest working backward to calculate when the dinner, and the rehearsal preceding the dinner, should begin. Most recommend calling the rehearsal for 5 p.m., to allow for late arrivals, plus 30 minutes to run through the ceremony.
SERVE COCKTAILS
“Have a short cocktail hour,” suggests Robert Downey Jr.’s planner, Sofia Crokos of Sofia Crokos Events in New York City. “Make it 30 or 45 minutes long, with a few passed hors d’oeuvres.” Keep beverages simple too. East Hampton, N.Y., planner Jill Gordon suggests serving just sangria and beer.
Your rehearsal dinner should end no later than 11 p.m. to ensure that you and the groom get some beauty sleep. Therefore, planners suggest working backward to calculate when the dinner, and the rehearsal preceding the dinner, should begin. Most recommend calling the rehearsal for 5 p.m., to allow for late arrivals, plus 30 minutes to run through the ceremony.
SERVE COCKTAILS
“Have a short cocktail hour,” suggests Robert Downey Jr.’s planner, Sofia Crokos of Sofia Crokos Events in New York City. “Make it 30 or 45 minutes long, with a few passed hors d’oeuvres.” Keep beverages simple too. East Hampton, N.Y., planner Jill Gordon suggests serving just sangria and beer.
See our premiere advertisers in this month's issue of
