The Rehearsal Dinner Slide Show

As promised, a post devoted solely to the highlight of the rehearsal dinner- a slide show of J. and I through the years.  I promise not to make you sit through 15 minutes of photos of the two of us as babies, toddlers, kids, teens, and later as a couple... but it was gosh darn cute.  J.'s brother D., our best man, put the show together so that photos of us were shown back to back in the same context- the "Sears baby photo", the "bathtub photo" and so forth.  And he set the whole thing to music.  I have seen slide shows of photos before, but never like this- even my brother A. got misty and it is nearly impossible to make that guy cry!

As an extra-special touch, D. made DVD's for our parents and for us, with a copy of the slide show on it to keep.  I cannot possibly emphasize enough what a great touch this was for our rehearsal dinner.  As an added bonus, it filled up some time so J. and I didn't have to give a long, boring speech (everyone hates wedding rehearsals with too much speeching, am I right?)  We just let the slide show do the talking.  I think everyone should do this.  I mean, look how cute we were!!

[caption id="attachment_2164" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... as chubby babies!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2165" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... dressed up and old enough to sit up too!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2166" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... at the beach!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2167" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... tub time!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2168" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... with grandparents!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2169" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... me just generally looking cute"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2170" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="... let's talk about how much HAIR J. has in this photo!  :)"][/caption]

Did you or will you plan anything special for your own rehearsal dinner?

And how did we get here?  Checking In;  Practice Makes Perfect: The Rehearsal!; The Rehearsal Dinner!