Sounds like you're getting conned. There's a place in between Ankeny and Bondurant that has a campground, but has a facility or two thats pretty darn cheap. I can't think of the name of it though.
Rehearsal Dinner
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This. My in-laws (mother in-law) wanted extended family to attend. Even though at their weddings, we didn't attend their rehearsals nor did we expect to.
When we said it wasn't happening, mother in-law offers to pay. I straight up just said no, it's not happening, and family could stop by after the dinner and hang if they want to, but this event is just for wedding party and immediate family.
I wish I would have known at the time that that would be the first and last time I got my way, I would have cherrished it much more.
Geisler Farms?
We had extenuating circumstances for a couple family members that led to their invite, but the rest were all wedding party and their direct family members. I didn’t hear any complaints about not being invited.
I think you feel like you should but in reality, nobody really cares that they’re not invited. They’ll just go to dinner on their own or with each other elsewhere. We also did the Sunday brunch too which was great. It helped me remember how my night went.
We got married there on a Friday at 4pm, no booze, 15 people, under $500 for food, rental, and dessert.
I've found this out to be very right/wrong pending the place. I would prefer not to go to many things, I don't really care for groups of people. We live in my wife's town and there is a lot of butthurt here if they don't get special invites to things.
First wedding rehearsal was at the church's fellowship hall and I was told that all out of towners were coming. Had the old man smoke some meat and the church allowed BYOB.
Second wedding rehearsal was at a buddy's house in his backyard, grilled some burgers drank some beers and sent everyone on there merry way.
You can make it as expensive or cheap as you want. It's your wedding and if this doesn't work out, you can always right the wrongs when you go for number 2.
Second wedding rehearsal was at a buddy's house in his backyard, grilled some burgers drank some beers and sent everyone on there merry way.
You can make it as expensive or cheap as you want. It's your wedding and if this doesn't work out, you can always right the wrongs when you go for number 2.
Agreed, we had family from California, Texas, Minnesota, and North Dakota and they were all invited to the rehearsal dinner.
We had some out of town guests at ours, but we did a park here in Ames and had Hy Vee cater. It was the 4th of July, so gave people something to do for the evening. Also celebrated my grandma’s 75th birthday and went to the fireworks after dinner.
1st. We both wanted to keep it low key and have large families. Would have been a 300 person wedding or the 15ish people the way we did it. Saved like 20-25k. We thought it was stupid to start off our marriage in that kind of debt.
I love my booze and parties, but we go to the dog park, run the trails, and play softball out at Raccoon. It was perfect for us.
How many people did everyone invite? We (wife was 85%) were in the 510-520 area. This was after some trimming.
Ours was at Lowe park
We were around 400 invited and I think 300ish showed up. Rehearsal dinner was just wedding party. We had it at Lowe Park (in A/C thank God as it was 100 degrees) and was more of a "tailgate" style thing as we grilled burgers, brats and hot dogs with ladder golf and bags.
We were around 400 invited and I think 300ish showed up. Rehearsal dinner was just wedding party. We had it at Lowe Park (in A/C thank God as it was 100 degrees) and was more of a "tailgate" style thing as we grilled burgers, brats and hot dogs with ladder golf and bags.
