Hors d'oeuvres for Rehearsal

The rehearsal dinner is actually honoring the wedding party, not the bride and groom. You are thanking them for their support of the relationship and for standing up for you in the wedding.

View Quoted Comment Makes sense, however everything I've seen online for examples has the names worded that way

What time is the rehearsal and what time is the 'meal'? I am hoping it's not a meal time. I do agree with pp, the wording is strange as this isn't to honor you.

I'm trying to find rehearsal invites online without the words honoring Bride and Groom or in honor of Bride and Groom but can't find any....

What are your suggestions alternative wording?

Found this blog entry on Wedding Wire... it has the couple's names as being the honorees too..

https://www.weddingwire.com/wedding-ideas/rehearsal-dinner-invitation-wording

It doesn't seem the honoring wording is an issue given that most of the templates I have seen for rehearsal dinners do say 'honoring the bride and groom. Some do say "please join bride and groom for a rehearsal dinner"... but most are the former. As far as your wording, the only suggestion i have is maybe not using hors d'oeuvres twice. Maybe just join us for hors d'oeuvres and dessert under a phrase like "before we say I Do" or something else celebratory. "Rehearsal Hors d'oeuvres" is of course awkward and you want to make it clear there's not a dinner, per se.

I wouldn't say an app rehearsal... I would dress it up as bit and say like a cocktail reception

I might have to steal this idea!!! 🙂🙂🙂.... i don’t want a rehearsal dinner AT ALL so this seems like a compromise I can make with fiancé

View Quoted Comment Thanks, I thought of that but I didn't want to confuse the people with kids... they may see that and think it's adults only.

View Quoted Comment Awesome our venue charges $25 a person for a plate and that's out of our budget... I will be paying about $13 right now. My parents still complain where my brother had his when he got married (backroom of a bar), so I've decided a little more upscale venue...

We have a large food selection, two of my bridesmaids are picky eaters and will only do the veggie tray anyway. I've had two other of my bridesmaids help pick out the food so I think I'm good as far as selection goes.

We've been to fundraisers across town that have served less food for our $75 ticket.

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Maybe cocktail style reception...

I would just say please join us for the rehearsal and dinner rather than honoring the bride & groom. I think the hors d'oeuveres is mentioned enough though, people will know what to expect! Are you inviting anyone to the RD and not the rehearsal?

We did an alternative to using a room phrase honoring. You could replace rehearsal dinner with “Request the pleasure of you company at a cocktail reception immediately following the rehearsal.” Then give date and time. We just put the time for the dinner in ours because there are quite a few people invited to the dinner but do not need to be at the church for rehearsal. We’ll directly communicate the time of the rehearsal to the wedding party.