No pre-wedding events

We aren't doing any prewedding events besides the rehearsal dinner. I'll do stuff with my bridal party the day before (nail appointments), but other than that we won't be doing anything except last minute stuff for the wedding.

I am not either. 99 percent of my guests are out of town so I don't want to bother them about optional events when they will more than likely be budgeting for attending my wedding, so no shower, or engagement party. There's literally only my mom and maybe 2 couples who live in the same county, and everyone else lives 3-10 hours away, not including my dad who is in Jamaica so I think we'll only do the bachelorette party the day before, after the rehearsal.

Besides the rehearsal dinner; what other pre-wedding events would you host?

We didn’t have a rehearsal, engagement, shower or bachelor party—due to time & money (ours & friends) or friends being too spread out. Was just excited for friends to attend our wedding or local reception.

Two lovely friends did take me to a sweet brunch, not sure if that counts. 🙂

We aren't having any bachelor(et) parties, no bridal shower, and no rehearsal dinner. We did do a rehearsal with our officiant though. Our wedding is small, 31 people (myself and Fh included), and neither of us are having any bridesmaids or groomsmen. We are having a cocktail party 3 days before the wedding just as a meet and greet for mine and FH family to meet, but other then that we saw extra parties as a waste of money lol. Were just going big on our day!

I’m an older bride with a short engagement, so we aren’t having any pre-wedding events. I’ve had my own home for years, FH and I live together and literally need nothing for our home. No bachelorette parties as all our friends are married with kids. I’m not even having a formal rehearsal dinner because we can’t get in the venue the night before our wedding. We’ll have a dinner for any guests coming into town the night before, but that’s about it! Congratulations and have a great time on your day!

We are only have a rehearsal, not even a rehearsal dinner as it it's a big expense that we can not cover. We may all go out after, but it's nothing formal and everyone who would like to join can, all our guests are coming from out of town. So no engagement party, bridal shower, bachelorette party, and I doubt he's having a bachelor party.

We aren’t having any pre wedding events, we also don’t have a bridal party so we’re skipping the rehearsal dinner

We are not doing any pre wedding events either. I am debating on wether I even want to do a rehersal.

We are, but I know of lots of people who didn't. I wouldn't worry about it!

I'm not doing any pre events. Didnt have bridal shower or bachelorette or bachelor party. We r. having very small wedding then going out to eat after. That is very simple for us

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I told people not to organize or to host an engagement party, bridal shower and to do a bachelorette. We do plan to have a brewery tour prior to the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner since my fiancé and I are getting married at a brewery.

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My fiancé and I plan to have a very causal rehearsal dinner at a local no frills restaurant for family and friends who will be around town the day before the wedding. My fiancé and I currently live in MA and the wedding will be held in NH. However, most of our guests are fairly local in the MA and NH area but we do have some people traveling from TX, CT and WA.

We aren’t doing any pre-wedding events! And rehearsal/rehearsal dinner is nothing fancy and super casual, just rehearsal at the venue and probably go out for dinner at a restaurant 💕

I only had bachelorette. I did not have bridal shower. We did not have rehearsal dinner or engagement party.

We personally are most likely not going to have any pre-wedding events, other than (maybe) a bridal shower with family and rehearsal dinner. We didn’t have an engagement party, either. I honestly don’t have many girlfriends to want a bachelorette party.

My fiancé may or may not have a bachelor party — I don’t think he’s decided, but it’s totally up to him!

The pre-wedding events are not really your concern. It's not up to you to plan the engagement party, shower, or bachelor/bachelorette parties. Someone else has to do those for you, so I wouldn't stress about whether or not to have one because you really shouldn't be controlling that.