Rehearsal Dinner - Invitations and Dessert

I think it would depend on how formal/casual you want the event. If you want formal, you'll want physical invites. Based on the food, it sounds more casual so i think you can do e-vites. Even expecting a few to decline, you need to plan that everyone will attend. I feel like if you gave the groomsman a plus one to the wedding, you'll want to keep that consistent with the RD.

I don't think you need to put 'His Favorite' & 'Her Favorite' just leave it as is.

We are inviting a handful out OOT guests to our rehearsal dinner so we are looking at about 30-35 people. We actually did physical invites and love how they turned out! We rented out a local winery for the dinner so we thought these were fitting.

I would't make a big deal over the dessert. I would pick whatever dessert you want the restaurant to serve and leave it at that.

Agree with PP - if the single groomsman has a plus 1 to wedding, should be the same for the rehearsal dinner.

We had a nice rehearsal dinner (private room at an upscale seafood restaurant at the beach) and skipped physical invitations and just did word of mouth. We had around 25-30 people and it was just the bridal party and their SOs, plus immediate family on both sides so basically everyone at the dinner was already coming to the rehearsal anyway so it didn't warrant the money on a separate invite in our situation.

I think I will do e-vites, then, since it is definitely informal, and there's not that many getting invited.

I'll leave the cakes with nothing on them - well the frosting, of course!

I had planned on giving the groomsman a plus one to the rehearsal dinner, but as I was typing it out, I wasn't sure if it seemed weird since he's really not dating anyone.

We actually gave all our single guests a plus one to the wedding because we wanted to pad our numbers to get to the 100 person minimum (we invited 135). Even so, I think we're gonna be paying for a few empty seats (we've already gotten more than 20 declines after we sent STD's).

@Kimbo - you got declines on STD's?? I barely got acknowledgements from people that they got them....definitely no declines. Which we had gotten some...lol!

@StarWarsFan - Yes, we got a few friends saying they were NOT going to bring their kids. My sister is overseas and will not be able to bring her husband/kids, and a few aunts/cousins are teachers/in school and won't be able to come because school starts just before the wedding. Oh well!