Invites for Rehearsal Dinner?

Ideally, a rehearsal dinner is you , the BP and SO's and parents. Jsut tell them.

They don't need to be printed invites. Send an email or evite or text.

I think word of mouth is fine for the RD, as long as it's just the BP, their SO's and your parents.

Totally agree with Celia. We're just verbally inviting our parents, officiant, and bridal party. To pizza. In the church basement.

We (by which I mean my mother in law, she did all the work) sent printed invites. You can do whatever fits the formality.

Yeah I don't think you need them. Nice touch, but not mandatory by any means.

We're going to skip the invites. I think we'll either spread the information by word of mouth, or maybe by email/e-vite.

I'm with you on being sick of all of the envelopes and stamps! I just finished putting together my invites, and thought "YES! No more sealing and stamping." And then I remembered alllll of the thank you cards we'll be sending out. Haha

We didn't send invites either, we just called everyone.

We did evites, but even that wasn't necessary. I think I sent them a month in advance?

My FMIL is doing invites - they're hosting the dinner. I've gotten an invite to every RD I've been to, even one where I was MOH. I think it's more polite than required. I would've been fine with an evite. We're inviting everyone in the wedding, including the church coordinator and DOC, the officiant and his wife, the musicians, the readers, the wedding party and their +1's, and immediate family. I wish we'd been able to invite OOT guests as well, but that wasn't feasible.

I mailed them because 2 days before the wedding i didn't want to deal with people asking me via email or phone questions. I even put directions on the back of the invite on how to get from the church to the were the dinner was. I did the invites via word on some paper samples i had bought, bought envelops from michaels and i was done. They weren't fancy or anything.

I am going to send out rehearsal dinner invitations in the form of a self printed postcard with the wedding invitations for those individuals. My reason for doing this is because no matter how many times I tell and retell people or post information on the wedding site I feel like there are still a lot of questions. "What time again? Where is it? What's that address?" I by no means think sending them out will all out stop those questions but it might minimize them. I know for my sisters wedding she just told everyone and I fielded a ton of those questions for her guests.

MIL/FIL hosted our RD. It was formal so they sent printed invites with rsvp cards/meal choices, the works.

I sent simple ones printed up at Office Max from a design file I purchased on etsy. I don't think it's a necessity, but I did it mainly for the reason others have stated...so all invited would have the info written in front of them and not have to call us. I chose a design that included a space for including the actual rehearsal info too. It worked...everyone showed on time and I didn't get any annoying calls or texts.

Eta: and it was relatively inexpensive!

I would verbally pass the message. I didn't even know people sent invites for this till we received one for an upcoming wedding. Just make sure to talk to each BP member (rather than have people pass the word) and get a confirmation from them since apparently one of the bridesmaids for the upcoming wedding didn't know she should attend the rehearsal.

We're skipping the rehearsal but I wouldn't spend the time or money on a formal invitation for the RD if we did have the rehearsal.

FH was the best man in a wedding in December. None of the SOs (including myself) thought we were invited to the RD (it's a common practice in our circles that the RD is ONLY for those participating in the ceremony and no SOs are expected to attend), let alone where/when it was. Needless to say all the female SOs were a little put out by the fact that we all found out really last minute 1) that we were expected to attend, 2) where it was being held, 3) when we had to be there. An invite would have gone a really long way because guys are not always very good at communicating lol. The groom provided his groomsmen w/ very little info and they, in turn did not pass along what little info they had. If you have more than the immediate BP attending, then I would suggest doing invites - especially if you're including people like OOT guests.

As our dinner is quite formal, we are doing printed invites. We got them on Wedding Paper Divas for $50.

I'm mailing mine but really only because I got a template off etsy for $5 and it's going to cost me about $7 to print them on vistaprint. I Just think it's easier for me to do it this way and then everyone has the info so I'm not answering questions from 15 people two days before. And a lot of people don't always check their email so that wouldn't help.

We're doing a postcard invite and online RSVP. We're not doing a traditional RD, but a welcome picnic for all of our guests instead.

Every RD I've been to (except one) has had a mailed invite.

For you girls that did mail an invite what kind of information did you put on it? Did you put the rehearsal info and then mention that there will be a dinner to follow? How do you reference that they are able to bring a SO only. I do not want everyone bringing all their kids, that would be way too much for me to deal with. I just want my BP and their SO, parents, ring bearer and their parents, flower girl and her parents, readers, both our sisters, DOC, Pastor, and Coordinator. That alone puts us at about 50 people.