Support and Planning Tips for the MOG
Your son’s rehearsal dinner is one of those moments where you get to step forward and do something meaningful. You’re not just the mother of the groom here—you’re part of the hosting team, and that shift matters. The thing about rehearsal dinners is they don’t have to be fancy or expensive to be memorable. They…
Rehearsal dinner planning for the MOG is supposed to be straightforward. You ask a few questions. You get a few answers. You make a plan. Except, as most of us find out the hard way, that is not how this goes. Episode 4 of the Mother of the Groom comic strip is called The Rehearsal…
If you are the mother of the groom planning a rehearsal dinner, let me save you some trouble right now. I did it myself. I cooked a full taco bar for a crowd (I had help), stayed on budget, and lived to tell about it. But I would do a few things very differently next…
I was not prepared for the silence in my own head when it came time to plan the rehearsal dinner. That’s how the Mother of the Groom Rehearsal Dinner Planner eventually came to be. I had my trusty MOG checklist, sure. But when I sat down to actually plan the thing? I needed more than…
Here is something I did not fully understand going into my son’s engagement. I assumed the mother of the groom rehearsal dinner was mine. Not in a demanding way, not in a controlling way, just in the way that water flows downhill. In the South, that is how it has always been done. The groom’s…