Helen agrees to cook rehearsal dinner

Lori’s Sister-in-law Helen is from the Philippines. In the Philippines it is customary for the family to cook the wedding dinner and Helen offered to head up this task for our wedding. However Lori and I would rather Helen joined the party to celebrate our nuptials and we struggled with the task of declining Helen’s offer without offending her. As Lori and I discussed this we came up with the idea of Helen cooking our rehearsal dinner. Lori spoke to Helen tonight she agreed to cook our rehearsal dinner on the 23rd and party with us on the 24th.

This has me really psyched as I absolutely LOVE Helen’s cooking (what fat guy doesn't love bacon wrapped shrimp) and can’t imagine any of our friends not enjoying it as well. So now we begin our hunt for a location big enough for 40-50 people and will allow us to use their kitchen. No worries where there is a will there is a way and I am strong willed about this.

Another good side affect to this is it should save us some money on the rehearsal dinner that we might be able to apply to another part of the wedding.