Rehearsal Dinner

If you want to make your own food, bbq, italian and tacos are the cheapest options. You can do a tray of ziti with meatballs, green salad and bread for relatively cheap. Mac and cheese, sausage and peppers, etc. Anything that can be made ahead of time would be best that way you can just pop in the oven or crockpot.

I think BBQ sounds like fun. Maybe you could order pre-made sides (potatoes, macoroni, etc) from a local grocery store to cut down on the amount of prep work you actually have to do? For the guests coming later, I would suggest fruit and cheese platters, and maybe if you are going to grill anyway you could prepare some finger foods like chicken skewers or wings so they don't feel left out of the BBQ fun.

I think BBQ is great, and it is what we are doing! We are having a local grocery store cater it. As long as you feed them something for coming to the rehearsal, it doesn't need to be "fancy" or expensive!

There is no mainstream grocery store just a small market and even their food is more expensive. However, farther out of town there may be, let me look into that. Thanks for the idea.

That's a good idea. Thanks Dayna!

I was thinking Italian too. I thought about mexican (tacos) but there are so many toppings and things to prep that I ruled that out.