Rehearsal dinner?

I’m not doing a rehearsal dinner due to the time of rehearsal. We will have rehearsal breakfast grab and go Chick Fil A chicken minis, fruit, donuts and juice.

Not doing a rehearsal dinner. Extra money that's not needed. With covid , we're already only having mostly family for the wedding so the rehearsal dinner would be pointless. We have our nieces and nephews in the wedding so we are doing a run through the morning of.

We are having a “Destination wedding” I guess you can call it that no one lives in the city we are having it most of my guest are flying in from California... I am conflicted on having a rehearsal dinner I know we will have the rehearsal because it’s included in our wedding Our wedding package. I wanted to do a welcome dinner the night before but I’m still unsure... this is the only things I haven’t made up my mind about because everything is happening out of town.. idk

Traditionally this was so both sides could meet each other and get to know about
But you don’t need to do anything fancy.
We have a few ideas but figured set up and pizza or subs something along those lines.

View Quoted Comment This made me laugh!!!! I’m in the same boat 😂

I agree with Katherine, I feel it’s a nice way to thank the bridal party for being there for you guys and it’s nice to just get together and have a meal whether it’s at a restaurant or even your home with pizza and drinks! Make it your own if you want to keep on a more affordable budget!

We are having a DW and our wedding party is our kids. Soooooo I guess we are kind of doing an”rehearsal dinner” without the rehearsal. We aren’t doing a rehearsal (the venue does mostly elopement a so there isn’t a time to do a rehearsal). Ours is not an elopement, but I’m not too worried about a rehearsal since it’s just our kids walking.
We will do dinner Friday night with the kids, our moms and whoever else is in town that night. And we are doing a morning after pancake brunch for Sunday.

Now that I just want a smaller ceremony ( tie the knot ceremony) at a local farm,no bridal party, I really don't think we need one.

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I am doing a walk through, everyone knows how to walk down an isle yes but knowing when to go, where to go is important. Having everyone knowing how things will be, streamlines the process so you don't have ppl standing in the way of photos blah blah.... For the dinner it's up to you but if you have out of town guests it's nice to do a dinner for them to introduce them to ppl or just have a family dinner so everyone can meet and so on.

We had one for a few reasons, it's not just about rehearsing.

-My husband's family had just landed from their out-of-state flights, so this was a welcome dinner to them.

-A thank you to our wedding party for all of their help.

-And nearly everyone was staying at the hotel nearby anyways, so why not?

Our venue is pretty large, and I am planning to do one just to time out the music with the walk. We are also doing a dinner because my fiance's friends are over the country and he is from the east coast and I have never met them, so I wanted a chance to get to know them! Really i think its up to you all! I have been in wedding where the rehearsal was in a back yard the night before and it was great!

We are planning to have a quick rehearsal at our venue. It mostly for me to decide how I want things to work. We talked about a rehearsal dinner, but I think we're just going to do cocktails and apps early enough in the evening that if people are still hungry and want to go for dinner, they can. For me, the rehearsal "dinner" is mostly about seeing my family from out of town and introducing them to my FH a chance for everyone to chat a bit before the wedding. We're planning to have it at the hotel where our reception is and where I imagine my out of town folks will be staying.

We are doing a rehearsal then a welcome party for all of our guests! We are out of town for most and didn’t want a formal rehearsal dinner, but wanted something to show how much we appreciated everyone coming. Plus it takes the pressure off seeing everyone and saying hi before the big day!

We are using the money we our using for our rehearsal dinner to our new MINIMONY but maybe next year when everything is ok we will do a dinner rehearsal since I will have a full bridal party by then

We are doing one. My sister owns a restaurant and is providing the food so I found a small bar where we can host it and I paid for each person to have 2 drinks.

We plan to pass out gifts that day so it is our thank you for spending money and time on us

We aren’t doing a rehearsal dinner because we had to downsize our wedding to just parents & siblings. Not a big deal, in my opinion. With this pandemic, we aren’t comfortable hugging our guests or being in close contact so it works out. And saves $!
I wish you all the best!!

We were going to do a rehearsal dinner, but our venue does rehearsals an hour before the actual ceremony. The event planner assured me that this is the best course of action because it is fresh in everyone’s minds.
My MIL is insisting we do a dinner even so, but our relatives from out of state just cancelled, and we have other things to pay for, so it feels like a waste of money at this point when we’re feeding everyone the next day anyway! If anything we’ll order take out to the house and have the family over.

We are definitely doing a run through the night before and will go out afterwards. But it won't be the "traditional" rehearsal dinner.