Should i just skip the Rehearsal Dinner idea?

Most people can find their way down an aisle with minimal instruction. If you want to save the money, skip it.

Rehearsal does not have to be mandatory and does not have to cost an arm and a leg, but a little get-together with those in the wedding would be a nice way of saying thank you for them spending their time standing beside you on your day. Are they all local? You could do something as simple and laid back as pizza and drinks the night before or a nice little brunch the day of?

You can cut the rehearsal if you don't want it. You also can skip the zoom call. I would maybe just ask everyone to get to the venue a bit early on the wedding day so you can go over the logistics for about 5-10 minutes pre-ceremony.

If you have someone besides yourself to direct traffic as it were - let everyone know it’s time to line up at the aisle, start music, etc, you could probably get away with no rehearsal.
You can also have the rehearsal and order pizza/Chinese food/subs after. It doesn’t need to be a big dinner.

We didn’t have a rehearsal ...none of our bridal party was local and we didn’t want to make everyone feel like they needed to take off work and travel early. It was totally fine. We just went over order to walk down the aisle a few minutes before the ceremony, and all went smoothly. There was nothing unique or complicated about our ceremony so rehearsing would’ve been totally unnecessary

This is a know your crowd situation honestly. A lot of people may have been in a wedding at least been to one to know how things work...but a lot have not and don't know. My best friend did not do a rehearsal for her wedding and the walk down the aisle for everyone was a mess because nobody knew what they were doing, they walked too fast or too slow so there were very large gaps or the girls were on top of each other walking down. But i will say that most of her bridal party had never been part of a wedding before, so they weren't really aware of all that stuff. If you really don't think you need it, then skip it. But if you have a group who may have never done this before...at least practice somehow.

Is your concern the rehearsal or the rehearsal dinner? I don't think the actual rehearsal of the ceremony would cost you anything. If you don't feel the rehearsal of the ceremony is needed, then just make sure everyone involved knows there place and how to get to point a to point b, how quick they should get there and where they go after the recessional (off to take photos or do they go to cocktail hour, back to the suite?). If you do hold the rehearsal, I do think you should have a little dinner or something afterwards. Even pizzas or sandwiches.

View Quoted Comment Not all of them are local, honestly his brothers are in Michigan. Its not that bad of a drive. I just don't want to spend money on something I may not need.

View Quoted Comment I was trying to think of a way in which to tell them logistics, and your idea sounds great. Thank you for the idea!

View Quoted Comment If they aren’t all local and you think it’s fine to skip then I say skip it! You could do the zoom and make it a fun virtual thing if you wanted to! I guess that’s more of a know your crowd thing lol

We are having a small wedding with 25 total guests and are not having a rehearsal dinner. You will be fine!!

View Quoted Comment Thank you!

Thank you everyone for your advice!