Rehearsal dinner – to decorate, or not?

Oooo! If we were having a large rehearsal party, I would totally be up for decorating. Since we’re not having a formal wedding party, it’ll just be us and our parents most likely at the rehearsal, we will just make reservations at a restaurant if we can or have some food delivered. Heck we may even have a BBQ if the weather’s nice.

But love your inspo pics...here are a few from our’s...of course we were inspired by the paper moon and our love for all things astronomy and astrology related.

Yes!!! They were the first “decor” item that I purchased. I have 2 of the hurricane moon candle holders and about a dozen of the Orbit candle holders. I would love to hang stars but the ceilings at our venue are really high and there doesn’t seem to be anything to hang them from. I have a friend who is taking up welding and is going to make silver stars for our table tops (I want a mix of Silver and Gold with the Midnight Blue).

I think doing some lights and using the candles twice wouldn’t be a bad idea. Are you thinking of using the same decor or changing it up a bit for the rehearsal dinner?

Thanks! As far as I know the Moon Candle Holders have been discontinued...I believe I got the last 2 that were in Stock on Wayfair but maybe if you do a reverse image search you’ll come up with something. Also the orbit candle stick holders were discontinued too....

You may be able to still find the plates on West Elm, but wait for a sale! They often put them on sale.

My mom, grandmother and sister-in-law decorated the venue for our rehearsal dinner. My mom was really upset about two weeks prior to our wedding. My husband was in Alaska at the time so I spent the weekend at my parents' house so I called him to inform him that my mom was so upset and crying because she thought she'd be more involved in planning. My husband came up with the idea of having her decorate the venue. Our colors were red and black so that's what colors she decided to use to decorate. We weren't allowed to put anything on the walls so she primarily decorated the tables. She had one of our engagement photos blown up and had that at the entrance on an easel with lights around it.

Of course they were just laying around

FH asked what we’re going to do with all of this decor and the plates after-the-fact and I’m like “Keep them, DUH!”

We have one long communal table we’re going to have a runner of moss with some assorted bottles and vases with sprigs of ferns spread out. We have a few smaller tables as well where I thought we would place the Orbit candle/candleholders with orange and blue vintage glass votive holders. The flames have to be covered so that’s why we didn’t opt for tapered candles. I have some wire lights too...of course there have to be twinkle lights

We did not decorate. Our rehearsal dinner was in the tasting room of the vineyard we got married at, so it was pretty enough in itself. We decided to leave it as it was .

I would skip decorating the rehearsal dinner. i skipped that for mine aha just cause i felt like there was already so much going on

We skipped decorating for the rehearsal dinner. For a dinner that lasted a couple of hours in a busy restaurant ...we didn't see the need to add more onto our plates.