Who Forgets the Food for a Rehearsal Dinner?

The day that Jenna got engaged she, like many newly minted brides, started planning her wedding. A lot of women will tell you they are very relaxed and they do not want to be over aggressive about the little things. Jenna would never be one of those ladies. She wanted to be in control of every detail and aspect of each minute throughout the day and days leading up to her big moment. One of the things that she was certain of was the location that she wanted to have her rehearsal dinner. She picked a restaurant that she and her fiance had gone on their first date, which made it special to her.

As the planning went along, reservations were made, dresses picked out, details sorted through, flowers decided on, and a myriad of other decisions made, the rehearsal dinner was pushed to the back burner. The convenience of having the event at a restaurant is that most of the options are already built in, so once the location is picked there is not a ton of work to do. But for a bride that spent a lot of time on the details, and aspects of each day that most people would never think of, it was interesting that the few decisions that needed to be made were put off.

About two weeks before the wedding, Jenna had still not done anything about picking the food, drink, or desert options for the rehearsal dinner, but the restaurant's deadline had arrived. So she picked options off of a menu, having never tasted the food that was going to be served to her closest family members and friends for the evening. It was almost funny, because there had been discussion about if the groomsmen should all wear the same color boxers under their tuxedos, but it did not occur to Jenna to go try the food.

So as her wedding party gathered around after the rehearsal for the dinner, she hoped that the food was going to taste good and that she had made good choices. As it turned out, the food was decent. It probably did not achieve the standards of choices she could have made had she tried the food, but it certainly was not bad. In looking back, it seems likely that Jenna will realize that when planning a rehearsal dinner, it is probably important to pay attention to the detail of the food that is to be served.

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