Invite Wedding Planner and Officiant to Rehearsal Dinner?

I don't think it's necessary to invite ether since you don't have a relationship with them other than a contractual one. I would think they would want to get home to their families anyway.

No, you do not need to extend an invite to any vendor. The exception is if they are a friend of yours (not recommended to hire friendors) or a friend of the family.

We will only be extending an invite to our officiant who is FH's youth leader from high school who he is very close with. Otherwise we would not be extending an invite to any of our vendors.

Maybe it would depend on your relationship with each of these people. For me my officiant is the pastor of my church, and friend, so he and his wife will be at the wedding. I am not sure if it would be different if I didnt know my officiant on a social level, whether I would invite them or not. I probably would sebd an invite and leave it up to them for their responses.

Thank you for your responses... but due to what I read in articles, I already did extend an invite to the officiant! So it's too late. With that said, should I now feel obligated to invite the planner since I invited the officiant?

We went back and forth. No to the planner but that never crossed my mind. Yes to the officiant, we got so close to her during our counseling. She and her husband will be invited to he welcome party and reception.

We didn't do a RD, but if we had my planner would have been FIRST on the list!

Totally up to you I invited out wedding planner because we love her and she is doing and has done so much! She will be there for rehearsal and dinner is at the hotel where we are having our reception so she’s going to be setting up the venue with her staff as much as she can. So just a heads up they may not be able to! Our officiant is my FH uncle so he will for sure be there!