Rehearsal Dinner Time?

I feel like if you gave them a heads up with a date, time and location they can plan their schedules around that.

I personally plan to have my rehearsal at 5pm on the Friday before my Saturday wedding. I'm not asking a lot of my bridal party, so I think they can take one hour off of work early (if it came to that) to be there. As for your out of town bridesmaids, they will have to miss work that Friday anyways to travel.

My rehearsal dinner is this Thursday night. We made the dinner for 7 pm to try our best to accommodate everyone's work schedules the best we could.

Our venue decides the time - 6-7pm. Then we'll go to dinner afterwards.

All but 1 member in my wedding are from out of town and have already told me they are coming in either Thursday or Friday AM so we scheduled our rehearsal at 4pm and dinner to follow. Our venue has restricted times for rehearsal so 4 was the best fit for us. I think if you gave them enough time they would be able to work it out... I feel like most people involved in a wedding kind of expect to be needed the day before so I don't think it would be a big deal. If anyone did ask you to push it back you could always give them the "venue restriction" excuse...

Mine is a Thursday night. We're starting at 6 to try to accommodate those that work. We're also super chill and if people can't make it, I'll tell them how to walk the next day.

I think all you can do is your best to be considerate of people's schedules. Not everyone will have the same schedule though. So, just find a middle ground and stick with it.

I think that if you give everyone a heads up as to the details in enough time it should be fine. Maybe push it back to 6 and then choose something for the dinner that is nearby so you don't have to travel far. I do agree that asking them to have a late night on Friday may turn some off since they have a long day Saturday and you, yourself don't want to be exhausted but I also think some people will get by just fine with a little lost sleep because of the excitement of the day!

I'm having a destination wedding, so all of my guests are flying in. In lieu of a formal rehearsal dinner, we decided to have a casual welcome party at the vacation home my mom is renting and invite all of our guests (only 50). The welcome party will be from 6 pm-9 pm (the only reason I have an end time listed is because we're shuttling anyone who wants from the hotel where the wedding is taking place to the vacation home where the wedding it), so I feel like that's still at a reasonable time.

Everyone in the bridal party except me and the officiant will rehearse at 10:30 am the morning of the wedding.

Did you ask your bridal party when they would be available? We had ours around 6/7pm because we asked everyone when they could be there after work. Honestly the rehearsal part only took 15-20 minutes (if that) and most of the time was spent socializing.

While people should be able to plan in advance if you give them the time now it's also nice to accommodate your bridal party so they don't have to take additional time off work. Being in the bridal party cab be expensive without having to use additional PTO if it's not necessary.

Making it for 6pm may be a better option.