We were fortunate that we were having a small wedding, with one attendant each and no small children involved in our ceremony.
Stay with me, here, and I'll explain in more detail.
Stay with me, here, and I'll explain in more detail.
To get married at the Four Seasons, they charged $500 for the wedding rehearsal to be held at the venue. If we had small children involved, rehearsing at the actual location would have been money well spent. But since we didn't, we were free to find a location that we could have a practice run-through, and for those involved in our wedding to know what to expect and all of this for hopefully, next to nothing in cost.
Which we found right under our noses.
My husband worked in a large business park that had several open green spaces throughout the blocks. And right across the street from the building his companies office was in, there was the Wells Fargo Bank tower, with a more park-like area in between the street and the parking lot. This area included trees, lawns and a wide cement path and courtyard that was professionally landscaped and maintained. And, if we played our cards right, free and nearly around the corner from our rehearsal dinner venue.
Invitations were sent to those family and guests who were involved in the actual wedding ceremony, with a map to the spot within the business park and details about the rehearsal dinner, afterwards. After getting dressed for the rehearsal that evening, we picked up some balloons at the grocery store to attach to the street sign at the corner where people needed to turn, to alert them that they were in the right spot.
The rehearsal was scheduled to start at 6 pm, which in the desert in late October, still gave us enough light for one, maybe two run-throughs before we needed to be moving on to the next part of our evenings pre-wedding festivities.
Parking wasn't an issue for anyone with the parking lot directly next to our designated rehearsal spot. It was a Friday night and most people who worked in the tower across from us were either already gone for the day or just leaving by the time we and our wedding party participants got there.
We had two run throughs of the sequence of events for the wedding and answered any questions folks had before we departed in our cars off to Buca di Beppo for our 6:45 pm dinner reservation.
I have to say, I was pretty happy with how this turned out and thought it was creative and clever while it cost us nothing, other than a couple balloons from the grocery store!
I have to say, I was pretty happy with how this turned out and thought it was creative and clever while it cost us nothing, other than a couple balloons from the grocery store!
