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Jennifer
Dedicated October 2019

Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner invitations

Jennifer, on August 20, 2019 at 3:54 PM Posted in Parties and Events 1 8

I like the idea of sending out an online invitation (eVite or Minted) for the rehearsal dinner - how did you word yours if you also did this? Our rehearsal will take place at the venue, with dinner at a restaurant very close by (about .3 miles). Should we put the address/title of the venue on the invitation, or the restaurant?

My instinct is to put the venue's address and the rehearsal start time on the invitation, and then just have let everybody know to head to the restaurant after the rehearsal is complete. There's about 15 adults & 2 children, so I'm not sure if that will be the most efficient.

Please let me know what's the most clear/logical, thanks in advance!

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Latest activity by Rachel, on August 20, 2019 at 9:23 PM
  • Courtney
    Master December 2019
    Courtney ·
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    We're sending out email to each of the bridal party and heads of families.

    Rehearsal time and address

    Rehearsal dinner time and address.

    This way if dates or spouses only want to join us for dinner they know where to find us.


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  • Caytlyn
    Legend November 2019
    Caytlyn ·
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    You are inviting people to the dinner that you're hosting, not to the rehearsal. You should put the time and address for the dinner on the invitation. Anyone included in the ceremony who needs to attend the actual rehearsal, you can give them that information by word of mouth. Dates, out of town guests, or others that you're inviting to the dinner who aren't involved in the ceremony, don't need to receive those details, which is why they aren't typically on the invitation.

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  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    I put the info of both just so they had it handy
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  • Lauren
    VIP September 2019
    Lauren ·
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    I wrote: Please join us for the wedding rehearsal honoring X & Y on DATE at TIME at Z venue (address). A rehearsal dinner will follow at TIME at W restaurant (address).

    I needed to make sure all that info was available for all bridal party, parents, and out of town guests without having to text each person individually day of when they needed the address. I only texted the very few out of town guests that they didn't need to attend the rehearsal and could just meet us at the dinner.

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  • MrsD
    Legend July 2019
    MrsD ·
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    We did paper rehearsal dinner invites and they said "join us for a rehearsal dinner fiesta honoring the bride & groom" then had "please RSVP to the bride at XXX-XXXX". We put the restaurant name & time, since we could just text the bridal party about the rehearsal.

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  • Nemo
    Master August 2018
    Nemo ·
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    We did a physical invite, but this was ours:

    Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner invitations 1


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  • Mary
    Expert July 2019
    Mary ·
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    Our evites only had the address and time for the dinner itself. It was a 15 minute drive away from the rehearsal location and there was a two hour gap in-between. (We also invited more people to the dinner than the rehearsal.) For the rehearsal location and time, we just contacted the family and wedding party members directly with the details.
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  • R
    Super September 2018
    Rachel ·
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    We did the evite specifically for the rehearsal dinner only.

    We sent an email, google calendar invite and followed up by text with the rehearsal details. Our venue we required we do a midday rehearsal. And I treated my ladies to lunch after the rehearsal (while my husband did something similar with his guys). We still wanted to host a traditional rehearsal dinner later that night, so it just made most sense for us to have a separate evite for the dinner.
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