Rehearsal Dinner

Thats exactly who I invited
myself and the groom. Both our parents. Our wedding parties (which include all of our siblings). Grandparents and the people doing readings at our church. It still comes out to 31 people 🙈🙈🙈 and no one except maybe 3 are bringing significant others

That looks like a good list.

I would include any significant others for your family and wedding party, but otherwise I think that looks good!

I just did immediate family and wedding party.
$$$ it added up really fast lol

That’s exactly who I plan to invite to our rehearsal dinner, plus any spouses.

Anyone who is going to have a part in the ceremony and reception should be there!

What you have is right unless you have the funds for more. Its suppose to ne a night to give the people in the wedding party their gifts to say thank you etc and go over event day of timeline and walk through .. so out of town guests dont need to be there but its up to you and your fh ...

Immediate family

The only people who have to be there are the people at the rehearsal and their SOs--so if you don't have a rehearsal, you don't need one at all. Some people invite OOT guests, just because if they have come so far, you want to be able to spend time with them. But it's definitely not mandatory.

In our families literally no one lives in the same town as any other family members, so literally seeing each other at all is "out of town." So our rehearsal dinner was my parents, my husband's parents, siblings (they were all in the bridal party). the rest of our bridesmaids and groomsmen, 3 of their significant others because they were in very serious relationships, my 2 little cousins that were junior groomsmen, my aunt and uncle (jr groomsmen's parents), my grandma, my grandparents and then my other little cousins that were flower girl and ring bearer were invited with my aunt and uncle but they're flight didnt come in early enough for them to make it. So basically just anyone that would involved in the ceremony

I think that's a good rehearsal dinner list. If everyone is coming from out of town, that would add a lot of people

Yes that’s all you need.

We did us (2), our parents (5), siblings not in the wedding party (1), grandparents and my great aunt (5) wedding party (10), their dates (4), parents of the junior bridespeople (2), and the pastor and his wife (2). We had 31 people.

My mom said family, wedding party and close out of town guests are optional. Since 100% of my family will be traveling...we have about 60 people that will be at our dinner. Which is why we are doing it in our backyard lol

I'm not a fan of inviting out of town guests (it just seems unfair to exclude in-town guest simply because they're local) and it's definitely not a requirement. We invited gparents, parents, sibling, bridal party, and ceremony readers/musicians plus their significant others. Essentially everyone involved with the actual rehearsal. It was about 35 people total.

That's a hard one but yes if it's Destination you should invite everyone. My wedding isn't technically a destination but I have only one family member that lives in the same city as me and he (he lives with me) everyone else lives pretty far away so everyone is invited to the rehearsal dinnet. My FHs family lives about 1-2hrs+ away so we also invited them just because all my family is invited. My friends do live in the city but since we already invited his family and my family we invited friends in town as well (most are in the wedding anyway).