Is a rehearsal necessary??

A rehearsal is not necessary assuming you're not doing anything out of the norm for your professional, but even then you could do a quick walk-through on the day of.

I was wondering the same thing. I don't see where it would be a necessity, and frankly, I am spending enough money on the event and people in it that I would love to axe that expense if possible.

Virtually none of our couples do rehearsals any more; out of town guests and the popularity of Thursdays and Fridays have added to that.

It's walking and standing. Organize it ahead of time (or make your officiant do it) write it down and send it to your coordinator.

I don't think I've done 50 rehearsals in over 1200 weddings.

You really only need a rehearsal if you have multiple people taking part in the ceremony (as in if you have readings or candle-lighting if its not you just and your future spouse). Because about half my wedding party lives about an hour's drive (at least) from our venue I opted to just do a quick and informal rehearsal/walk-through the day of the wedding. Our ceremony was at 5, we did the rehearsal at 2 (DH didn't attend. I should his best man what I wanted to happen) and then had lunch. That was I knew that everyone in the wedding was there early and I knew that no one would forget to eat lunch (the last wedding I was in, we didn't have time for lunch so by the time dinner was served a lot of us were hungry and cranky). I actually just grabbed a plate of food and brought it back to my suite so I could eat while getting my hair done plus that way DH got a chance to eat as well.

It's not necessary, but we are having one. Afterwards, everyone will meet up at a nearby restaurant and hang out.

If you're organized to have everyone lined up the right way and you're not doing anything out of the ordinary you really don't need one.

I don't think so. We are doing one, just because I want to have a night with everyone just relaxing and having fun before the stress of the wedding. But as PP said just write down the order for people to walk, and do your thing.

We are having one... It's actually just an excuse to go out and eat and drink after..

We're not having one because we can only do it on the Thursday before the wedding (which is Saturday). So we'll just do a walk through with our officiant. We'll still do a rehearsal dinner though on Friday night.

We are in the same boat, can't get into our venue until the day of our wedding which is a Saturday. We're still doing a "groom's dinner" the night before the wedding, mostly to have some more fun with a smaller party of out-of-town relatives. We'll do a quick run through shortly after we get into the venue the day of and I'm thinking that's all we really need!

I'm so glad someone asked this. I felt that one wasn't necessary. Just like others mentioned, we have bridal party members that will be coming from out of town/state. Our ceremony will be extremely simple (walking in, asking of who gives this woman, reading by the officiant, then the i dos, that's it.) We only have a total of six bridal party members (three on each side). Again, I'm so glad you asked this and more appreciative for everyone's replies.