Inviting officiant to rehearsal dinner

This may be a form of etiquette. We're not getting married at the church and our rehearsal dinner, obviously, follows the rehearsal walk through. Our pastor is receiving an invite as well.

I'd be concerned with the poor communication with your coordinator. That should be resolved first and foremost.

The only time I have seen an officiant invited to a rehearsal dinner is if they had a relationship with the bride and groom besides just for that day. We personally didn't - never even crossed our minds to - would have been pretty awkward in my opinion.

I'm inviting mine, but he's also my uncle. Different circumstances. He's a judge which works for our non religious ceremony

I invited mine to be polite.

That's weird....most of my couples do invite me, and I think it's traditional etiquette to do so (though that was before hired guns like me, lol). If you have a relationship with the officiant, that's a given. If not, you shouldn't have to.

Most of us won't stay; I usually stay for a bit of cocktail hour because people usually want to talk to me and I don't want it to feel like I was only booked for a half hour, if that makes any sense.

Oh wait. I read your post wrong, but I'm leaving it up because it might be helpful for someone else.

If your officiant is running your rehearsal, then yes. They get an invite. Will they accept? Who knows. I would find that even more awkward than being invited to the wedding...

My officiant is my MOH's boyfriend... so he's invited. I would invite him.

I am inviting my officiant because he is a close family friend. I would invite them not matter what just to be polite, they may not come. Just send an invite to the church if that is easiest.

Yes our officiant will be at our rehearsal dinner. He has known the family for years.

Son and fdil's officiant is a judge that son (he's a police officer) works with on a regular basis. I would never leave an officiant of any type off the RD guest list and I make a concerted effort to let them know they are truly welcome and not just a courtesy invite.

We invited our officiant and musicians and readers! They were all a part of the rehearsal so it only seemed fair to provide them with a nice meal as a thank you.

We are inviting ours. We are hiring her for the wedding (nto affiliated with a church or anything). We "clicked" really well when we're spoken with her, so I think it would be nice to include her. We also intend to invite her to our reception. I don't expect that she'll accept either invitation, but we'll see.

Our officiant is FH's grandfather so we're inviting him

Hmm.. I wouldn't have ever thought of this! We were married by hubby's best friend, so obviously he was included.

Don't really have any advice but wanted to say HI to a fellow Austin gal!!!