What did you do about favors/rehearsal dinner at your Intimate wedding?

[o0IrishEyes0o]

Well we've finalized the guest list at 18.

We're getting married at SBZ point at 2:30. We have dinner reservations for Citricos at 5:30.

Did any of you who did something similar provide favors? Or did you do something else (i see a lot of tote bag references)? Did you have a rehearsal dinner?

 

[purplegirl247]

Congrats on narrowing down the guest list! That's a pretty big accomplishment!

We are getting married at noon at the Yacht Club Gazebo. With pictures and first dances and toast/cake, etc, we won't get to our "reception" at downtown disney until 2:30, so my centerpieces/favors tie into this. If you click on my planning journal below, on page two you'll see pics of my centerpieces and favors. Basically, I made them edible so the guests could munch on them. (We're having the limo pick up half the wedding guests and take them to the luncheon site, then coming back to pick the rest of us up. I didn't want those sitting at the restaurant to feel awkward about ordering appetizers without us OR sitting around and starving to death waiting for us; lol!)

I'm debating now whether to have the favors on the chairs at the ceremony (both to have something to munch on and to hold down our programs in case it gets windy) or save them and put them on all the plates at the luncheon.

We aren't having a rehearsal dinner, per se, but we're taking all of our out of town guests to Buca di Beppo (a family-style Italian restaurant off site) the night before, so we all have a chance to relax and catch up before the wedding. There won't be a reharsal, technically, so I'm just calling it a "pre-wedding dinner."

Hope that helps!

 

[purplegirl247]

Oh, and I just noticed your weight counter. You're doing a great job; you're more than halfway there! Keep up the good work!

 

[o0IrishEyes0o]

I didn't want those sitting at the restaurant to feel awkward about ordering appetizers without us OR sitting around and starving to death waiting for us; lol!)!

That sounds like what I want to do. How did you arrange that with the restaurant? Would you just drop them off the evening before?

And thanks for your kind words I'm working out so hard, lol. But most of that weight came off naturally after I had a baby, so I can't take all the credit for it

 

[purplegirl247]

When we decided we wanted the luncheon at Portobello's, I called them directly. I spoke to the sales manager there, Lindsey, who said that since our wedding was on a Monday, if we wanted to drop the centerpieces off, she preferred we do it the morning of (she isn't there on Sundays and couldn't guarantee anyone else would know what to do with them!). That seems like an awful lot of work on the morning of our wedding, so I'm just going to give them to my officiant, who happens to be a trusted friend of ours, and tell him where to place them when he gets there.

I believe the rule of thumb is that if you aren't asking them to set anything up that's too elaborate or for too many people, Disney restaurants are usually pretty accomodating.