I posted on the local San Diego board but have not received any responses, so thought I might try here for additional ideas. Since it’s not a local board, I thought I might reach out for general suggestions on other rehearsal ideas (instead of local restaurants), that would be helpful! We are getting married on Mission Bay in San Diego close to the water. We will have about 25 people total at the rehearsal dinner and want to spend $1,000 or less. We would prefer to have Italian or American food, to keep it different from the food we will serve for the wedding. I have found some restaurants with okay food prices, but they make you rent out rooms with a group that large, and once the costs are all factored in it becomes well over $1,000. We considered getting a meal catered by a place, but we do not have a place to serve it (we are from out of town). We checked with our hotel to see if we can use space there, but they charge for rental fees, have a $1,500 minimum, and do not allow outside food vendors. Our wedding is late November so there is a good chance it could be too chilly to hold it outside at a public park. Any suggestions on what we can do to keep it under 1k??? Also.. cutting people from the rehearsal dinner is not an option, and neither is a rehearsal lunch/brunch due to us being required to have the rehearsal later in the day <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />