No rehearsal dinner?

The only thing I would be concerned with is time... will you still have enough time to get your hair/makeup done and relax before the ceremony. you don't want to be rushing and trying to fit everything in... if you are comfortable with the time line of things I see no reason that wouldn't work. It's nice that you are taking everyone into consideration. Also, you don't really NEED a rehersal dinner. As long as people know how to walk at a steady pace and the order they go in they should be able to figure it out lol

We are not planning on having a rehearsal dinner either. However, we would like to have our bridal party and immediate family members over the evening before for a drink and some barbecued burgers or something like that. We would just like something very casual.

I have heard from some vendors that a rehearsal dinner is not needed. Especially if there are no tiny children involved in the wedding. Because adults can easily know to walk down the aisle when after the person in front of them.

We'll have plenty of time. Breakfast is at 8:30, ceremony is at 3...and since we have no travel time it will be a pretty low key morning for most of us until around lunch time.

We can always run through rehearsal that night too once everyone is in, and include the kids in the morning. That's the bonus of staying at the venue where the ceremony is happening - I can make them do it 500 times if I wanted to, haha! (I won't though!)

We did not have a rehearsal dinner! But we also had only a few out-of-town guests, so I had lunch with them the day before.

The *rehearsal* and *rehearsal dinner* are separate things. The rehearsal is where you do a run through / practice of the ceremony. The rehearsal dinner takes place after the rehearsal as a thank you to the wedding party for attending the rehearsal, as well as close family.

If you aren't doing a rehearsal, then you don't need a rehearsal dinner. If you ARE doing a rehearsal, then you should feed people something afterwards. A breakfast the morning of is fine though if you aren't doing a rehearsal the night before.

We're having a lot of OOT guests, and obviously want to see them more than once but cannot afford to host a 50 person reversal dinner! So we're doing a happy hour, after our rehearsal, where we will pay for our wedding party and parents but everyone else is on their own dime. They can come and go as they please, or skip it....we just wanted to create the opportunity.

We're not doing it. Our wedding party is very small and includes close family which gets together regularly, so we're skipping it.

@Christine, having drinks and burgers IS a rehearsal dinner. It doesn't have to be fancy.

OP, I'm a bridesmaid in a wedding in November and we are just doing a quick run through the day of the wedding, so she's not doing any dinners. She is doing a post-wedding brunch though! So what you have is fine, I think.

I think you've made a good decision that will accommodate everyone. Depending upon the size of the bridal party, the rehearsal should be pretty quick. If everybody pays attention, twenty minutes should be fine. You're doing a morning rehearsal after a beautiful breakfast. It would work for me.

"Rehearsal breakfast" sounds great! We're having a dinner but it's just going to be low-key and at my house

I like the breakfast idea! Go for it!

My college friend just did a rehearsal with no dinner afterwards. I can say I was surprised and not prepared to not go to dinner afterwards but that was only bc no one had informed us. If you inform your guests that there will not be a rehearsal dinner provided and that you prefer just to have a rehearsal after breakfast is served morning of I think it should be fine. As one of the ladies said above though, as long as you don't feel rushed as well.

Our venue is booked most Fri, Sat & Sun so any rehearsal would have to be during the week. I'd like to at least do a dry run early that week. But if we can't get everyone together (since it would be a weekday during business hours) no biggie. Since our wedding is Sunday, we're having family & OOT guests over for a cookout on Saturday. I can't wait!!

If we do do a rehearsal the night before it probably won't be til 9 at night, so I doubt my guests will want to eat dinner at 10pm. We won't be able to do a full rehearsal til the morning of when the kids are awake, anyways!

We'll probably just bounce ideas off each other the night before (I don't really care how my party gets down the aisle - if the guys want to stand with FH and girls walk alone, or guys and girls go together, it's up to them - I won't be there to see it!) and then do an actual rehearsal in the morning after breakfast!

Due to budgetary concerns we decided to devote the money that would go to the rehearsal dinner to our dream venue. We might still do a backyard BBQ the night before the wedding, but that's up in the air right now. If you think your wedding party can handle the walk down the aisle without a formal rehearsal then I don't think it's necessary to have one, but that's just me!

Sounds like a great plan. Most of my couples do a dinner the night before, but very few of them do rehearsals. It's just not necessary.