Skipping the rehearsal??

We're skipping it

We aren't having an actual rehearsal at the venue.

However, we are having a rehearsal dinner two nights before the wedding for our bridal party to briefly go over all of the details (when, where, time, items to bring, etc).

We aren't having one. Its fine.

We have the same problem of half the bridal party is from out of town and we are not having a rehearsal dinner.

I'm thinking to have a very quick run through the night before as our package allows stay over for the night before. Just so everyone has an idea. Don't think anyone in our party including us have ever been a part of a wedding.

Personally we are skipping it. Our reason is we are having such a small simple wedding(33 guest) it's very easy to communicate to my MOH and FH BM about what they will need to do for the ceremony. I'm not looking for perfection. The experts on here say even if you have a rehearsal hiccups still happen. Hope this helps

My sister had the same issue and did a rehearsal at the venue with those that could attend and the next day did another rehearsal at a park to get the rest of us caught up. The dinner followed the later rehearsal. I'm probably going to skip it though.

Skip it anything that happens on the wedding day can be chalked up as funny and laugh at it later

I had a quick rehearsal the day of the wedding and then lunch after. (DH didn't participate in the rehearsal). As we only rehearsed the entrance/exit (our ceremony was short and simple. There were no readings or anything so we didn't need to practice when people need to "come up" to read or anything). To be honest, the real reason was to ensure that those bridal party members with a history of being late would arrive prior to the ceremony. I didn't make it "mandatory" for anyone to attend and 3 members didn't but it was fine. We did the rehearsal at 2 PM and the ceremony was at 5 PM. I know that after lunch the groomsmen went the DH's suite where they all hung out and got ready. The bridesmaids (as well as both mothers, my MOH and FG) all finished getting ready in the hotel suite I spent the night before the wedding in.

We are not going to skip a rehearsal because we have 4 young children in the wedding. We want them to know where to stand and what to expect so they don't get nervous.

We aren't having a rehearsal either. We're just going to wing it

We aren't doing one, mainly because it's just more money we would have to spend. But, we are going to take our moms and BP out to dinner so we can give them their gifts and just spend time with them.

I think it depends. If your venue does weddings all the time, you'll have a coordinator to help you, your ceremony is pretty traditional, etc. then you can probably get through it without a rehearsal. Ours, however, would have been a total nightmare without it. We had to figure out for ourselves how to work the sound system (there were instructions of course but it was confusing). We had to figure out the plan for walking down the aisle (apparently half the family thought they were in the processional when we planned it to be just the BP). We learned in the rehearsal that we couldn't hear the processional music from where we started so we had no clue when we were meant to start walking. If we hadn't done a rehearsal people would have thought I'd run off or something. We had to work out a cue so we'd all know when to start walking.

You don't need one; we almost never do it. Your venue coordinator will line people up and get them down the aisle, your officiant should help you with the processional order ahead of time, and it'll be fine.

Rehearsing kids is fruitless.

Figure out which BM is walking with which GM ahead of time. Getting everyone lined up and down the aisle is the most confusing part. Once everyone is in place, the officiant takes over.

Figure out which BM is walking with which GM ahead of time. Getting everyone lined up and down the aisle is the most confusing part. Once everyone is in place, the officiant takes over.

Unless my fiance parents come out of the wood work and do the "traditional" thing and pay for it we will not.

We aren't having a rehearsal. I think we are just going to have a quick run through earlier that day so everyone knows what they're doing. We are having a pretty small ceremony though so I am hopeful that everything will go smoothly! lol

We are doing a quick one the day before not everyone can attend due to different schedules and we r all from different towns too! It should be fine!!!!

Can't afford so skipping it