Rehearsal dinner - invite bridal party significant others?

SO's should definitely be invited. BP members do a lot for the bride and groom, and it's only appropriate that they are allowed to bring their SO.

Yes, most people invite their SOs.

SO's should be invited. We are including them at ours.

Yes, SO should be included in the RD.

We invited SOs but only a few of them are bringing theirs

Yup! They should definitely be included

Yes they should be included. That's just awkward that you weren't invited.

We're including SOs

Yes, definitely invite their SOs. Your FH's friends are the outlier here.

Yes, proper etiquette says that they are invited. We are having our BPs SOs invited to ours.

I'm not inviting SO. Only feeding those that rehearse. It won't last long so I'm sure they can part from their SO for 2 hours. When I go to rehearsals and rehearsals dinners I go alone. It's really distracting when there are 50 ppl watching and talking through the rehearsals. The last wedding I went to there was 50 ppl just standing around, the party couldn't hear instructions so then I decided to not invite extra ppl. Without extra ppl they go so much faster. May not be etiquette but etiquette isn't paying for the food either.

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Wow.

Yes inviting significant others to the rehearsal dinner is the right thing to do.

MRSFSG I am detecting a trend

It would be very nice to invite SOs.

@MRSFG your answer makes perfect sense given that you think people aren't a package until they are married.

But you're totally wrong on that so you're giving bad advice.

It's perfectly fine for the SO to decline the invitation, as yours does when you go alone. However, it's not ok for them not to be invited in the first place.

MRSFG that's pretty rude to do to your bridal party and their SO's. You won't take our advice But you should definitely invite them even if in the past you've gone alone.

Definitely include their significant others. We invited them and their kids if they had any.

@MRSFG don't have such a huge bridal party if you can't afford to feed them and their SOs. How do you wind up with 50 people?

Luckily I can just repurpose my meme from the other thread.

Definitely invite SOs! Especially if travel is involved for the bridal party.

Yep SOs should be invited.

FH was in a wedding last year, two weeks after we got engaged. I had to travel back to his hometown several states away for the wedding. The parents of the groom are close friends of my FILs and I had been to their house for holidays in the past. They did not invite any SOs to the RD. I stayed back at the hotel, and FH left the dinner early to come eat and celebrate our engagement with me and his family. The family friends wanted to use a nice room at the wedding venue for the RD, and they could not have fit any additional guests in that room. I definitely would have had a better time at the wedding if that had been an opportunity to meet the other GM and their SOs.

About six months before that FH was in a college friend's wedding, I had met his parents before too. I was invited to the RD, along with all the other SOs in the bridal party. It was a packed tiny room, and we ended up sitting with a BM and her husband. We actually became great friends with someone we had never met before at that dinner, and the wedding and after party were more fun because we were able to bring together the bride and grooms friend groups. I'm still FB friends with that BM. I think including the SOs at the RD definitely sets a better tone for the wedding.