Rehearsal Dinner

Not tacky at all! The people that need to be at the rehearsal are bride/groom, officiant, bridal party and anyone else involved in the processional. It also may be helpful to have readers there as well.

Parents, Bridal Party and SOs, Flower Girl and Ring Bearer with families, and out of town guests but they are optional.

We are only doing bridal party and their SO and our parents. No out of town guest or anyone else. If OOT guest want to meet up after the rehearsal for drinks I am okay with doing that but I don't think I should feed them the night before.

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Out of curiosity why do both sets of parents need to be there? I know some weddings the parents walk down the aisle, we aren't doing that. Our parents really don't want the spotlight on them. I'm pretty sure we are opening the ceremony with the groom.

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I don't know why the out of town guest would want to come? lol I wouldn't want to go to a rehearsal, if I wasn't in the wedding.

We had officiant, the av guy, all the bridesmaids and groomsmen, both sets of parents, my brother and his wife because they're in our processional too. And we let whomever was married bring their partners.

View Quoted Comment Right?!?! I've seen on here that you invite out of town guest as a thank you for making the trip for you wedding but in my opinion they could have said no and it was their choice to drive / fly and attend the wedding so I should have no obligation to take care of them the night before. It may be selfish and "untraditional" but I'm okay with that.

We are doing everyone who has a role in the ceremony, immediate family, and guest who are not from IL or WI (everyone in WI are still inside and hour and a half to the venue and would likely not be staying the night Friday) I think OOT guests is more of a regional thing and an if you can afford thing so I wouldn't stress over it if funds are tight.

We almost did pizza but we are doing pizza for our wedding so that wouldn’t have worked well haha.
We are inviting our parents, bridal party, officiant and his wife and our DOC

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In my case my parent's are hosting the rehearsal dinner so obviously they will be there. His parents will be in the procession and their other son (FH's little brother) is a groomsman and will need to be driven there.

If they aren't in the ceremony they really should be invited anyway because the rehearsal is part of the wedding festivities.

Totally not tacky! We are doing a family style cookout potluck type dinner! We are getting married at a state park, so it works perfectly, and will be the easiest and cheapest way to do it! As far as everyone who is invited, usually it’s anyone in your immediate family, and your wedding party. You can always invite more people if you want I suppose, but since you’re on a budget I would keep it to a minimum.

We are inviting our parents, siblings (and SO’s), our wedding party and their SO’s, and our officiant (who is a close friend and got ordained just for us, so he’s basically “wedding party”). Our DOC will be invited to stay for dinner as well.

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Mostly they only come to the dinner part, if you are doing pizza or sandwiches in a casual environment there is no reason to invite them.

We are having our rehearsal dinner at a restaurant 2 days before the wedding, that cuts down on out of town guests. The only ones in town at the time are cousins from New York because they are using the wedding as an excuse to take a week long family trip out to California. I am only inviting them because I don't get to see them much and it would be a good chance to catch up before all the wedding craziness.

Not tacky at all! We had our bridal party, immediate family and close cousins. We definitely didn’t need to invite cousins but my husband’s family asked and they were paying!

It's to practice the ceremony, so whomever is involved with that. In general your parents go because they're your parents and emotional stuff. Some pay for the rehearsal.
I'll probably have our siblings there because my fiances mother wants to pay for dinner and the sisters will be in town from college.
I think pizza fine, it's more often a casual event.

We invited our parents, grandparents, wedding party, ushers, ceremony readers, and ceremony musicians and their significant others to the rehearsal and dinner. It was around 40 people but since it was a Catholic mass, it was pretty important that everyone be there.

Definitely not tacky to order pizza or sandwiches! The important thing is that you host SOMETHING after the rehearsal, it doesn't have to be fancy or expensive.

Also, if you're having a really simple ceremony and don't need a rehearsal, you dont' need a dinner either!

We are doing all the bridal party/spouses, our families- parents and our kids, and then the “out of town” people- sadly this is a destination wedding soooooo that means 95% are in the “out of town” category!

Trust me, no one would complain about free food lol.

Granted, we are having a full dinner, but this was a gift from my FFIL. We're having ourselves, parents, siblings, wedding party, and significant others. We're also inviting some FHs out of town family to dinner only. All in all roughly 30 people.

We invited wedding party, aunts, uncles, cousins, and out of town guests.

Hey not tacky at all it’s more about everyone getting comfortable with each other and getting ready for the big day so it usually the bridal party that goes Bridemaid groomsmen and parent of the bride and groom hope this helps just have fun relax and congrats

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