Invites for Rehearsal Dinner?

You don't HAVE to. Personally, I think an invitation is really useful to be clear about who is invited (like SOs but not children). We have always received a mailed invite to RDs I've gone to. However, maybe do an e-vite? Just something with written info on it that's not a text, so people can refer back to it easily and hang it on the fridge to remind them.

Just make sure you tell them in enough time. The last wedding I was at didn't inform me until the day before she was having a rehearsal.

@CareBear My RD template came from Etsy. Our RD was not at our venue, so we needed space to list 2 addresses and 2 different times (we had a bit of a gap between the rehearsal and dinner because of a Friday night wedding at our venue, during which we had a little happy hour at the dinner venue).

I would say something like:

Please join us for a wedding rehearsal

x time

x address

followed by a dinner celebrating the future Mr. and Mrs.

x time (or immediately followed by a dinner...)

x address

Please RSVP by x date to x at 111-111-1111

You indicate just SO by inviting them by name on the envelope. By having them RSVP, you can make sure no one is bringing anyone uninvited! No one else other than who you listed should be at your rehearsal or dinner. ETA: Send them about 3 weeks/month before your wedding.

We used Paperless Post for the RD. It was fine.

For my baby brother's wedding, details were included with everything else the BP needed to know. For my younger brother's wedding, I got no formal information about it-- it was just word of mouth. Go as fancy or as simple as you want.

I agree that you don't need printed invitations, however, I disagree with verbal invites. People need the information in writing for both the rehearsal and RD - they need to know where to be at what time. It is easy to forget when you have nothing written down to reference. Send an email or an e-vites to everyone invited.

I invited all out of town guests to our rehearsal dinner so we could spend more time with people. I had an enclosure card with my invitations stating that if they were out of town, they were invited.

Looking back I should have included a RSVP for the rehearsal dinner too but we had decided to have the extra guests as we were sending the invites.