Rehearsal dinner

Usually done the night before but if everyone participating in the wedding are avail I do not see why not.

My best friends weddin is a Saturday but the venue only has Thursday rehearsals so whomever can make it can make it. It’ll be fine

It should be fine as long as everyone is available.

In my opinion you should be fine just letting everyone know in advance

I'm pretty sure my fiancés best friend had their rehearsal one weekend and then got married a week or two later and that went perfectly fine. I think it works as long as people are available. I think the only reason people really do it right before is because everyone will be in town for the wedding.

I feel it should be fine just give everyone a heads up

I was in a Thursday wedding and they did the rehearsal Wednesday and dinner Wednesday night. It would seem odd to do it early because people fly in and travel in for the wedding and it's pretty festive so it gets you in the mood for celebrating the next day.

I think that actually sounds like a good idea because then you can "celebrate" the upcoming wedding the weekend before AND the day of AND most likely the weekend after!!

Local weddings, rehearsals have always been done mostly in the week or two before the wedding, and often if the rehearsal is a weekday evening or weekend early in the day, the rehearsal dinner is given on the previous weekend, because most churches, synagogue, and wedding venues are not free the late afternoon or evening before. It is only recently, with fewer ceremonies in houses of worship, and more weddings far from home, or bridal party chosen from far away, that they have shifted to commonly happening the night before. And the rehearsal dinner party is a thank you for being WP, not for coming to the rehearsal itself which is usually a half hour thing, and mostly unnecessary except for B and G and officiant, often music person. Traditionally, those at a distance or working, have not been expected to travel far for a half hour thing, or take off work Friday to get to rehearsal stuff the day before a wedding. So often the dinner has been the priority and set on one of the two weekends before the wedding, when SO can make it, and those attending have nothing ( including a wedding) the night before. It keeps from having rehearsal and wedding on two consecutive nights, unless people are traveling and can only do it together, night before. So schedule the rehearsal any time you, groom, officiant, and sometimes music person can make it, for the rehearsal itself. And if either of the two previous weekends, or other day off works for more people to drive an hour or so to a dinner and home again rather than spends the night, do it. It is still the more common thing than the night before. Though media/TV find it more glamorous to feature hotel and resort weddings with everyone jetting in from here or there , and lasting from Thurs pm to Sunday, in fact more than half of weddings are local things within 30 miles of home, and most WP spend the night before in their own bed. So separate times rather than back to back work out better.

As long as everyone participating is local and nobody in the wedding party has to travel, then I don't see why not!

View Quoted Comment That is the exact thing I had in mind this hole time , being that its already like a weekday the day of my wedding I know people work and stuff some of my bridal party friends have kids too , I know they probably wont mind and they are super cool but an extra day off (if they work late) and then the weekend after our actual wedding day off as well dont want to be too much !! ha thanks so much for your comment. Im sure everything will be find and everyone. Might just be over thinking it :-)

View Quoted Comment Yes! Everyone is pretty much local. Ty