Anyone else not doing a rehearsal?

If you are having a pretty simple ceremony you won't need a rehearsal. Those are more suited for people with larger bridal parties plus lots of things going on in the ceremony; music, communion, readings, etc.

We had no rehearsal as we just sort of gathered, had a seven minute ceremony and were done.

That should be totally fine. Don't worry about it.

We didn't do one either and my entrance was from the top from a pretty terrace, I walked down I think 3 or 4 terraces before I got to the bottom. My husband and his mother walked in from the first terrace, my sister (moh) and sil (best woman) went behind my hubby and his mom. My boy cousin held my arm was we walked down and my hubbys boy cousin held my veil, plus they were both there incase I needed them. My mother has rheumatoid arthritis so she waited for me down right before the aisle, when I arrived at the bottom terrace I switched to my mom and let my veil fall. We had 2 different songs also one for hubby and the sisters and one for me. We practiced the night before the wedding and the morning of on the stairs at the house before we left for the venue and we never really agreed on anything. When we got to the venue I basically told my sister and sil to count 10 seconds before the next one goes and everyone told us it looked like we had rehearsed it lol. All you need to do is be on the same page.

We aren't going to do a rehearsal in the traditional sense, but I need to figure out if the speaker we are bringing will work and where to place it, etc. I think it will just be my FH and I and my friend who is officiating just to do a quick run through and I will have the order of the processional printed out so everyone knows who is doing what. I don't want to complicate things. We are going to do a get together for the wedding party and their significant others in the evening so we can thank them, give them some gifts, etc.

Rehearsals are rarely necessary if at least some of WP have done it before. You can talk people through it in 10 min of instructions. What is helpful, that you can do way in advance, is timing the walks. One person can do this, with a second person with a stopwatch. This way you know how long music pieces should be. It really helps people to step out on cue, and walk at a stately pace, when tempo and length of the music pieces are matched to the length of your walk, or that of a procession of WP people. Good advance prep on your part eliminates the need for everyone going through a rehearsal.

This is exactly what we did. We had a lot of out-of-towners, and our venue was an hour drive from our home, so scheduling a rehearsal dinner was complicated. We scrapped it altogether, and instead, a few days before the wedding, we sent everyone info sheets telling them processional order and the plan for the reception entrance. At the wedding, the day-of coordinator went over it with everyone 15 minutes before we started walking, and everything went totally smoothly.

To make sure we still got time with people we would’ve normally seen at the rehearsal, we took the local wedding party members out to a relaxed dinner Thursday before the wedding, and my mother in law hosted a breakfast the morning after the wedding. That was this morning, the wedding was yesterday, and everything was perfect. Good luck to you! Your plan sounds great.

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That's a really great idea thank you for the tip! Our wedding party is kind of large, 7 bridesmaids and 7 groomsmen. I didn't even consider the length of the songs they'd be walking in to.

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That sounds perfect, quick instructions from our day of coordinator should be all we need.

Congratulations on your wedding!!!