Rehearsal Dinner

Ours was very casual and we just invited our immediate family, bridal party, and datse, so we just invited everyone via email. For a more formal event and/or more guests, an invitation would be appropriate.

I mailed out rehearsal dinner invites (and then postponed the wedding a week later). I found cute ones on sale on Zazzle. I don't think a formal invitation is required (maybe send formal invites if you're hosting a more formal rehearsal dinner), otherwise you could also send out a text/email to everyone invited. Just as long as everyone knows the plan and you are able to get a count of who's attending, you should be fine with however you choose to invite them.

We just told everyone info via text. We didn't want to spend anymore money than we already had.

We used evite to invite everyone to the rehearsal dinner.

I sent evites for those

We are just texting everyone or word of mouth. We are inviting my FH's aunt, uncle and 1 cousin to our dinner because they are coming from out of state and the only family coming to our wedding on his side for his extended family. Otherwise we just stuck to the wedding party, significant others and parents/ siblings.

I would do it via text it’s not that important

Usually it's word of mouth to those participating in the rehearsal and their significant others. But you can send a casual invite if you want.

It depends how formal your rehearsal dinner is. If it's casual then I think an evite or email would be ideal. We included an insert in our actual invitation with the rehearsal dinner info for those invited, but that was because we invited a LOT of people. If you're not having a particularly large rehearsal dinner, and it's casual, then I'd recommend an e-vite or email

Ours is pretty casual, but I decided to do invites anyway because I found a cheap template on etsy.

We are planning on inviting immediate families, wedding parties and their dates. I do want to send out invitations just so we are communicating more. I was recently in a wedding where the communication was lacking and I didn't know what was going on all weekend. I think it is also a sweet touch

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We Plan On Having Immediate Family Members, Bridal Party, And A Few Other Friends And Relatives. 15 People Max. Im Thinking An Evite But I Also Love The Idea Of A Real Invitation.

View Quoted Comment We're inviting a similar group, only without additional friends or relatives, but for us that's 28 people. We may also (depending on covid) be having a brunch the morning after with more people. The invitation to/information about those events will be printed on the opposite side of the details card. We'll only include the information about the events each person/household is invited to. People who are only invited to the wedding will just have a one sided details card.

Because of the relatively large number of OOT guests and a large wedding party, the guest list for daughter and SIL's welcome/rehearsal dinner was close to 50 people (for a 100 guest wedding). The invitation suite was from Zazzle and daughter designed a separate coordinating invitation card for the dinner and included it with the invitations, so everyone invited received both at the same time. The RSVPs for both the wedding and the welcome dinner were on their Knot website, so it was really easy to manage the responses.

I ended up creating a Facebook event and printed postcard invites for the people who didn’t have Facebook. It made things so much easier as far as posting updates!

We sent out paper invites with our wedding invites, and people texted me to RSVP.

For the guests not involved in the ceremony but are invited to the dinner, do they witness the rehearsal as well or just show up to a restaurant?

We did invitations for ours, but that's only because I got an ad that VistaPrint had a sale for these super cute flamingo invites. I think if you're doing a more formal rehearsal dinner you could consider invites, but otherwise I think save the money

View Quoted Comment They usually just show up to the dinner. About 80% of the guests who attended our rehearsal dinner were not at the actual rehearsal (we had a large rehearsal dinner—only our wedding party, parents and officiant needed to be at the actual rehearsal). As a guest, I’ve attended about a dozen or so rehearsal dinners without being at the actual rehearsal because I wasn’t in the wedding party but still invited to the rehearsal dinner

We had a separate insert created that was sent out with our wedding invitation to those guests invited to both our Rehearsal dinner and Wedding celebration. It was a simple insert with the information on it, no separate RSVP.