Rehearsal Dinner Invites

Some people believe you need to mail a separate card, but I don't think that's such a big deal anymore. FH was in a wedding last March and they just included another card in with the invitation inviting us to the rehearsal dinner.

It shouldn't be that hard to include. When you're putting together the envelopes just make sure that the certain people invited to the rehearsal dinner get that invitation added and don't add it to others.

I don't see anything wrong with including the rehearsal dinner info with the wedding invitation! The only thing to make sure of is that you only include the rehearsal dinner invites to those who you are actually inviting to the rehearsal dinner and not accidentally sending them to anyone else. Otherwise, I say go for it! It'll save on postage as well. You could also send the rehearsal dinner invites by email or text (depending on whether the rehearsal dinner is a more informal event).

We included rehearsal dinner invites as an additional insert in our formal invitation suite. Our out of town guests were invited to our rehearsal dinner, but definitely not all of our guests. We just had to be careful that we placed the inserts in the correct envelopes. It was very easy and worked well!

I think it’s perfectly fine to send it along with the invitation suite. It’s more cost efficient and saves you multiple trips to the post office.

We have rehearsal dinner information on our website, and it's only available to those that are invited and designated to go to it! When they go to RSVP, it shows the events they're invited to and has all of the details on the wedding website.

I don't think it's necessary to include a separate info card or anything with invitations. Honestly, word of mouth is also a simple and free way to spread the word about it, unless your event is black tie or extremely formal. You can also just make a group message with all of those invited and send out a mass message.

Every rehearsal dinner invite I have received and heard about from others is a word of mouth or text. The dinners were casual too. You can do something super cheap on Vistaprint if you want to mail it for a keepsake.

Thanks for all of the input everyone! Unfortunately I don't think word of mouth or group message will work in this instance, as we are tallying ~50 people (I wish it was less but my family is too large to do anything less).

Its good to hear that including a separate insert for specific people doesn't seem too complicated, and I think that's the route I'll be going.

Much appreciated!

Every time I’ve been invited to a formal rehearsal dinner in came in the invite suite but on a separate card. The only “trouble” is you need a separate RSVP system. One I got recently had an email listed on the rehearsal invite card for rsvps.


I’ve been to more casual RDs where it was just an e-vite sort of thing, but everything about those ones was casual (think like backyard taco buffet), so similar to weddings, the invite style tends to match the formality

I think it probably depends how you are sending out your invitations. If you are the one sending them out I don’t see an issue with it but if you are outsourcing to a company I can understand how those could get mixed up.

Both ways are fine - of course the rehearsal dinner invite included in the suite would only be for certain people. Maybe the planning team is concerned it will be a challenge making sure there aren't any accidental invites.

Sending a separate invite is done to. I recently one separately - it was a completely different style than the wedding invite, and the groom's parents were the hosts. Maybe your planning team has only dealt with a separate hosting situation?

My rehearsal dinner consisted of only our wedding party, their SO's, and our immediate families. We did not feel the need to send our formal invitations for the rehearsal. We sent everyone a text, or told them by word of mouth, the rehearsal details.

We didn't send invites for the rehearsal. We just told the necessary people where to be and when. It was easy because my husband's bach party was the night before so he was already with them the day before and my girls got their nails done the morning of the rehearsal so we already had plans with them that made it that much easier.

We just did word of mouth invites for the rehearsal dinner (35 guests). We sent out a wedding weekend itinerary via text to those in the wedding/invited to the rehearsal dinner, so everyone had it in writing where to be and when. I don't see any issues including it in the invitation suite though. That wouldn't have worked for us because we finalized rehearsal dinner details after ordering our invitations.