Rehearsal Dinner Questions

Some say it’s just the bridal party and parents but I’ve also heard about inviting immediate family members. I’m still trying to figure it out as well.

Bridal party with significant others and if they are single we gave them plus ones so their plus one, parents of the bride and groom, reader and significant other, officiant and significant other, if you have ushers and their significant others, ring bearer, flower girl, their parents, siblings of the bride and groom and their significant others, and grandparents (optional). We had approximately 30 people. All of our siblings, but one were in the wedding. The one who wasn't is the father of our ring bearer, flower girls and usher. My husband's dad and his fiancee didn't attend because his dad didn't realize they were expected to so he didn't take off work. Our officiant and his wife also choose not to attend. I only invited my grandmother and grandmother on my mom's side because my grandmother was the reader at our wedding and my grandmother on my dad's side doesn't like driving far and the wedding was 1.5 hours from her house so I knew she wouldn't attend if I had. We had it at an Italian restaurant that had a private room as we wanted privacy.

Everyone was traveling from out of town including us so we invited everyone. It was nice spending some extra time with our guests who we never see and many of them hadn’t met my husband til that day. We had chicken, lots of sides and finger foods, lemonade, water, tea, hot chocolate and s’mores. I wanted to have beer but we couldn’t have alcohol at our venue without a bartender which is fair enough. After dinner we played games and I handed out gifts to parents and wedding party.

Mine will be 26 people. We're inviting our immediate families (plus any spouses and children), the officiant (my uncle), the bridal party and their families (including spouses, parents if they're young, and kids), and finally, my wedding coordinator (who is also a good friend) and her family. It'll be at a nice British restaurant (in a private room) 2 blocks away from the church. Basically, anyone who needs to be at the rehearsal should also be invited to your rehearsal dinner.

Ideally, you should do the rehearsal dinner at a place close to your actual wedding venue (since you'll be doing the rehearsal there).

We did everyone in the wedding party. The officiant. The av sound guy who is a friend. And we let the married ones bring their spouses.

The bridal party and their guests (as most of them are from out of state as well), and our immediate family (parents and brothers), and I did my grandmas. We are having something really low key, it's going to be at my dads house. Probably with pizza, munchies, dessert. Something at a restaurant was too pricey for us!

We invited all out of town guests (we had a lot!) and everyone in our bridal party including the flower girls. My husband’s parents offered to pay for it since 95% of OOT guests were their family. Rehearsal dinner was at a popular bar and grill in our area that was perfectly in the middle between the venue and the hotel block. So the bridal party rehearsed at the venue, then took a 5 minute drive to the dinner. We had about 50 guests at the dinner.

1. We invited wedding party and their plus ones and kids, immediate family, aunts/uncles/cousins, and out of state guests.

2. We invited 70 people (large rehearsal dinner for sure).

3. We had it at a local mexican restaurant across the street from our blocked hotel in a private dining space. The whole dinner was $3,000. My father in law paid. That included 2 drink tickets per person (wine, margaritas, beer), a queso & salsa & chips appetizer, an entree (5 options), and brownies for dessert.

We included paper invites with our wedding invites, and told people to RSVP via text.

Traditionally I believe you just need to invite the wedding party, your immediate families, and the officiant. We have others coming from out of town we want to spend time with so we're inviting all of them as well, and all our wedding party's families are coming, so in total we'll have about 30 people. We're having a taco bar at my brother's house to make it easy, but you could order pizza or go to a restaurant. It's really up to you and your budget. Wedding rehearsals can be anywhere. My tip to you would be to figure out your budget first because then you'll know how many people you can feed, or what kind of place you can feed them at. Doing something at home (like ordering pizza and having beer) is likely going to be cheaper than going to a restaurant, but you can also have something catered to your house that's higher end. It will all depend on the budget.

We are inviting the bridal party and their SOs and kids. Our parents. And his grandmother.
I think that's about 45 people total.
Our ceremony and reception are in the same place. We plan to have our rehearsal dinner there as well.If that wasnt an option our choices were a party room at a restaurant Party room at a bowling alley a friend's parents ownWe are doing pizza