Weddingbee Blog

Do you want to know why I love the hive?

Well, there are a lot of reasons. But one of the biggest reasons is because, when I posted about our rehearsal dinner restaurant closing down, I got so many amazing suggestions from you all about other alternatives. You guys are seriously the best!

Unfortunately, after making a ton of phone calls, no restaurant could offer us prices even close to the low prices that Arbol had quoted. We asked our hotel if we could rent out a conference room and bring in our own food, but the conference room rental fee was exorbitant, and they wouldn’t let us bring in outside food. We were thisclose to just shoving everyone into our hotel suite and ordering pizza, but then, I had a call with our venue coordinator, and everything changed.

She told me that, because of an event the night before our wedding, Bartram’s Garden would be closed to the public, and she asked if we could have our rehearsal sometime between 1-4 in the afternoon.

And our problems were solved, y’all.

Because that way, we could have a rehearsal lunch!

Bartram’s has an adorable little outdoor picnic pavilion that they are letting us use for free, as long as we bring in our own food and clean up after ourselves.

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We can eat lunch at 1PM, rehearse afterwards, and then have the rest of our day to do whatever we need to do.

So all we need to do is find some very cheap, very casual catering. Luckily for us, there are a lot of options. We can do sandwich trays, pizza, Chinese, or anything in-between. Lunch is cheap, y’all!

And we can check one more thing off the list.

Did anyone else have a rehearsal lunch instead of a rehearsal dinner?