Our Rehearsal Dinner

So many of my friends had told me that one of their favorite parts of the wedding festivities was their rehearsal dinner. Needless to say, I was very excited about ours and could not wait for it to be here!

Loving our rehearsal dinner!

From the very beginning Taylor & I knew we wanted to make sure a couple things were included in/at our dinner.
1. Mexican food
2. As much of our family that could come
3. Our closest friends
4. Slideshow of our lives & relationship
5. & an OPEN MIC!

We were so blessed to have all of these things!

Taylor's mom found a great Mexican restaurant in Sugarland that was a short 20 minute drive from our wedding venue where the rehearsal was. It had a delicious fajita buffet and a great party room. The room was perfect for our large families & wedding party. The room also had a great set up for our slideshow & open mic!

Taylor & his mom, Sherrill

We had SO much family there! It really was incredible. All of our grandparents came, so many aunts & uncles, cousins and lots of parents! We also were so blessed to have a large portion of our wedding party that was able to make it.

With my parents, Pop & Mrs. B!

The slideshow went off without a hitch and then it was time for open mic. It was truly perfect. Some of our best friends got up and said the sweetest things about us, to us, and gave their best wishes. Even some family members had sweet things to say! Taylor's dad wrote us a fairy tale that was super sweet and that we will forever cherish.  I don't have any pictures from the speeches, but believe me they were wonderful! But this is a good time to share the sweetest photo ever of our sweet flower girl, Izzie.

We also had a BEAUTIFUL sign in for the rehearsal. I had wanted to do this for our wedding, but we had far too many guests at the wedding to make it happen, so the rehearsal dinner was the perfect place. Our good friend Natalie (who is a very talented artist & has an Etsy shop - Natty2Shoes), drew this tree and framed it for us as our wedding present. It was one of our favorite gifts without a doubt!

Our awesome sign in tree - now hanging in our home!

 One of Taylor's uncles also made us something! Uncle Chuck makes these for family member's weddings and big events - so it definitely made me feel even more like a part of the family!

A carved watermelon!

And at the end of the night my ladies were still there, being amazing friends and gorgeous as ever! We are so blessed.

Megan, Natalie, Ashley, Ryan, Cali & Lauren - Back Row
Grace, Bayley, Paige (me), Jacklyn, Melissa & Caitlyn - Front Row

Overall, Taylor & I had an incredible time! I do wish we had more pictures, but we were having too much fun to take photos. Good thing we have amazing memories from the night that will last forever. We will never be able to thank our family & friends enough for being there and helping to make the night so perfect. And we will never be able to thank Taylor's parents enough for all the thought and love they put into that night or ever be able to explain just how wonderful that night was. It was a perfect introduction into what an amazing day our wedding would be! We are so blessed!

Love you all!
-Kauffman Krew