Rehearsal dinner alternatives?

If you have a rehearsal, you need a dinner. We chose not to have a rehearsal so no dinner was necessary.

I've heard of people doing a real casual pizza and beer rehearsal dinner. How many people are you expecting or wanting to come?

If you don't want to pay for a dinner, cancel the rehearsal. In many cases, a rehearsal isn't necessary. If you still want dinner, you may have to settle for something simple, like pizza.

If you don’t have a rehearsal then you don’t need a rehearsal dinner but if you are rehearsing you must feed people. It can be as simple as pizzas and beer.

View Quoted Comment Did you regret not having a rehearsal? At the risk of sounding dumb, I’m still not entirely sure why a rehearsal is necessary... my brother is our officiant so maybe we could run through things with him the night before, but I don’t see what exactly needs to be rehearsed by everyone else...?

View Quoted Comment We didn’t regret it. We were fairly confident all our friends could walk in a straight line and they did! Lol You can always run through things with your brother quick or take him out to dinner and go over everything during the meal.

View Quoted Comment We were going to invite about 20. FH and myself, 6 bridal party members, 5 of my family members, and between 5 and 8 of FH’s family (3 of them we aren’t sure if they’ll be coming since they are from OOT and said they may not be able to make it)

You could always do a taco bar, pizzas, grill burgers at home, something inexpensive that will still feed everyone.

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I'm not sure if you'd want to, but maybe you could have it at your home and grill some burgers?

View Quoted Comment You would need to invite all wedding party members’ SOs also.

View Quoted Comment Ok good so I’m not missing something, for the bridal party it is actually just them rehearsing their walking? Lol. I guess that is super unnecessary 😂 FH and I both live with my brother (we’re saving up living with my family until after the wedding) so we could literally just walk across the hallway to his bedroom and rehearse with him whenever hahah.

Youre right a whole “rehearsal” with everyone does seem really unnecessary. I think I just mostly liked the idea of getting all our nearest and dearests together the night before :/

View Quoted Comment Agree with this, do pizza and salad or something similar. It doesnt have to be fancy and expensive. If i showed up to a rehearsal and was fed pizza id be happy! Lol

My sister skipped the rehearsal and the RD. The DOC ran the ceremony and it all worked out fine. People, for the most part, know how to walk in a line to a spot.

View Quoted Comment Oh yeah, only one of them has an SO that is coming though! The rest are either single or I know aren’t bringing their SOs at all

View Quoted Comment That’s something I was thinking of actually, that could be a good idea!

It's not traditional in Jewish weddings to have a rehearsal. The rabbi just tells anyone a few minutes before the ceremony in what order to walk, and where to stand. I've never seen any issues with this.

We're going to do a rehearsal dinner similar to what others have mentioned. A majority of our immediate family/bridal party is from out of town so we're getting pizza from our favorite local place, salad & having a cooler of beer/drinks. We are getting married at the church so we were able to rent their hall out for really cheap - I believe it would have been free if we weren't having alcohol so they didn't need to buy a liquor insurance policy.

View Quoted Comment This is so not true. I've been in 4 Jewish weddings, not including my own, and all of them had rehearsals. The Rabbi wasnt there though, the coordinator ran the rehearsal.

This doesnt mean you need a rehearsal OP. Just stating a fallacy.

I am not planning on having a large rehearsal dinner. If it is not a destination wedding, I would have it at your home and just buy some food or even do a potluck! We are just having a small gathering with Pizza the night before with our wedding to save a little money.

We are having a rehearsal and doing a casual BP only RD. We are invite approximately 35 people, and its costing around 800$ for food, beer and wine. We are buying the food (full service set up and serve from Famous Daves BBQ) and we got the beer and wine from Total wine so anything unopened we can choose to keep to stock ourselves or can return to total wine at a later date, plus a case of waters, and a few assorted cans of soda. We are using the meeting room at our hotel, which they are letting us use for no additional cost so the room cost us nothing. We felt more comfortable going over everything without having the rush before the ceremony the next day, and we felt it was important to have a dinner where we could give out thank you gifts and really spend some time with our VIP guests