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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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…

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.

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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