Support and Planning Tips for the MOG
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…
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Nobody warned me about this part. I knew things would be different after my son got married. But grieving your son’s marriage while being genuinely happy for him? Nobody prepares you for that. He was building a life with someone, and that was exactly what I raised him to do. I was proud of that….