Skipping the rehearsal?!

Can you do it in the morning? Or the day before that? We had to do ours Friday morning before our Saturday evening wedding since the venue was booked for a wedding that evening. 4/10 groomsmen made it, 7/9 bridesmaids made it, and all the parents made it (and the coordinator and officiant). Weddings are pretty self explanatory to wedding party members, it's more for the bride & groom in my opinion.

We are rehearsing the morning of the wedding

My friend didn't rehearse theirs and it seemed fine but I'd recommend it. We rehearsed the day before and it helped because they were all clueless and we wanted to show them around the church as well since it's a bit of a confusing layout.

Could you try doing a rehearsal in your backyard or something like that? Just so your wedding party has a general idea of what they will be doing/when?

We skipped it. Our officiant just ran through the ceremony quickly with the wedding party the morning of. We had no problems and everything ran smoothly.

We will be skipping it. We have a small bridal party, and we are just going to wing it.

I would probably do the rehearsal at a different location (like your backyard/house) the night before.

You can always practice outside the venue. You can create the room in any other room just for guidance and a quick run thru right before by your coordinator. I would also try the morning before prior to the other event for a quick run thru.

We're also not able to use our venue for rehearsal the night before, so we're going somewhere else for an hour before the dinner. Our own house was the fallback, but we found another venue that's open and close to the restaurant. Our officiant isn't going to be there, but she's going to send us a script so our coordinator can walk us through it

I would suggest doing something morning of at least!

We also had all the bridal party members traveling in from out of town, so we skipped the rehearsal altogether. It was totally and completely fine. We just told everyone the order we wanted them to go down the aisle just before the wedding and all went well. The ONLY thing I forgot was, since we had one more groomsman than bridesmaid, was to mention to them they could walk 2 guys with 1 girl for the recessional — so the last groomsman ended up walking back down the aisle alone after the ceremony. But he was no worse for the wear haha— perfectly content to go on his own at the end. *MOST* of this stuff is really natural. If you have anything super specific or uncommon, make sure to mention it to people. But otherwise people can largely wing it with no issue.

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This is a good idea! I may try to do it at a restaurant where we will have our rehearsal dinner. I just thought that the venue coordinator should be there to show how things should go.

If there is another space that you can rehearse in, do that! We did this for my friend's wedding and it worked just fine. Good luck!

Our rehearsal was a dumpster fire because our church coordinator was a mess. I'm so glad we had one because it was definitely needed in our case.

It's actually a Jewish tradition not to have a rehearsal. I didn't have one for either of my weddings. The rabbi just told us all a few minutes before the ceremony what order to go in, and who should stand where. No one did a nose dive into the carpet as a result of not having a rehearsal.

I’m Indian and we really don’t have a rehearsal. What exactly are they for? My wedding events went well without it. If you are organized and communicate to your wedding party & immediate family, things can go smoothly.