Category: Rehearsal Dinner
Here Comes the Guide brings you expert articles and blog postings about planning your California rehearsal dinner. We spotlight great restaurants for your event and tell you how to rethink the traditional RD. Don’t forget you can use our location search tool to select your rehearsal dinner location.
REHEARSAL DINNER LOCATION OF THE MONTH:
Gainey Vineyard
Tucked in the grapevine-cloaked hills of Santa Barbara Wine Country, Gainey Vineyard hosts Tuscan-style rehearsal dinners inside the Wine Cellar, a long room whose walls are lined with to floor-to-ceiling bottles of aging vintages. Larger gatherings celebrate in the tiled Tasting Room, a handsome space with a grand scale fireplace.
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Kitchen On Fire Offers a Twist on Rehearsal Dinners
For San Francisco Bay Area brides, have we got an idea for you: how about a rehearsal dinner celebrated with the folks at Kitchen on Fire in Berkeley? You bring your guests, KoF provides the ingredients, kitchen facilities and tools and you and your fam cook your meal together before sitting down to eat. KoF’s professional chefs are on hand the whole time to provide guidance and support if needed. All the preparations are taken care of by KoF and the group can enjoy a completely private dinner (unlike simply reserving a table at a restaurant). You are also welcome to customize a menu that would be meaningful to you and your family (like an Italian-themed meal before the honeymoon in Rome.)
Read more…Ode to Restaurant Week
Wedding Planning Tip: if you’re still hemming and hawing about where to have your rehearsal dinner , Restaurant Week’s a great way to test drive your faves without breaking the bank!
Read more…Good Wine, Good Holiday
I can’t be the only one who thinks the holidays are always better with some good wine. If you agree, grab your honey and make dinner reservations at the Duck Club Restaurant at the href=“http://www.herecomestheguide.com/location/detail/lafayette-park-hotel-and-spa/”>Lafayette Park Hotel and Spa for December 5.
Read more…A Vice Presidential Rehearsal Dinner
What kind of setting is fit for the rehearsal dinner of Sarah Gore, daughter of Vice President Al Gore? Truly, only a restaurant created by a princess will suffice. Crustacean Beverly Hills was the dramatic location of Sarah Gore’s 75-guest rehearsal dinner celebration…
Read more…Confessions of a Rehearsal Dinner Junkie
You’d think with my job, running Here Comes the Guide, that I’d be a wedding junkie. And I do love weddings, don’t get me wrong. The pomp, the emotional gravity… But, I gotta say, I am a sucker for the rehearsal dinner.
Read more…Laid Back Luxe in Half Moon Bay
Recently, I decided to treat my sister to a fabulous 30th birthday (it’s a long story as to why the splurge, suffice it to say, I wasn’t a good big sister when we were young and I have a lot of latent guilt), and so we headed to the quaint town of Half Moon Bay.
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