It wasn’t your typical rehearsal dinner, but it was
everything Liz Jones and Josh Dilworth hoped it would be — authentic, casual and
relatively cheap.

Guests by the dozens gathered in a barn on the Jones family
farm for a simple picnic-style meal. Afterward, they played croquet, horseshoes
and badminton, shadowed by towering grain silos and within earshot of lowing
cattle.

When the sun set, they returned to the barn for an “open
mic” that included guitar-playing, poems and the bride’s 5-year-old nephew
singing “You Are My Sunshine.”