Wedding Rehearsal Invites - Are They Necessary?

The short answer is, yes, I think some sort of invite is necessary (need some way to communicate time, place and any directions). BUT I think you could get away with doing something like an Evite for rehearsal dinner. Think of your guests though....are any older and not very computer savvy?? If so, then I would stick with regular invites. I bought mine off of Vistaprint....20 cost me less than $10 and I probably could've gotten them cheaper if I used Hayley's tips that she just posted. My invites were 2-sided...one side has the times and locations (of rehearsal AND rehearsal dinner), while the other side has directions from the rehearsal site to the dinner site. I'm having them email or call me to RSVP. You can put all of that info on your Evite if that is a better option for you. Good luck!

I'm a little confused on this as well only because at my venue they do the rehearsal on thursday, and the dinner will be on friday.

I'm doing my own rehearsal dinner invites but have no idea how include the rehearsal from thursday.

But I think some form of invite just to have people aware.

Mrs. September, not everyone you invite to the dinner should be at the rehearsal. Like out of town guests. Only bridal party and immediate family. And you let them know by word of mouth. Invites for the rehearsal dinnner go to everyone invited to the dinner and shouldn't mention the rehearsal itself. Weird, I know.

We did an e-vite for ours. It worked out perfectly. I did do what Spunky kraut said and I mailed a hand written one to my grams, but otherwise it was seemless!

I breached all etiquette and saved money by printing up cute invites that included all the pertinent info to the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner and included them in the invitations of those people who should be there. I saved a stamp and the extra headache and I doubt anyone will care that is wasn't a separate invite.

That's a great idea Katy!

Ok...so I sorta cheated with this one.....

I sent rehersal invites BUT I slipped them in with the wedding invitation to only those invited. :-) bad Jenny! But hey....they got the invite AND I saved a stamp and envelope. :-)

Oh wait! Katy did this too! we are bad brides! :-)

I was actually discussing this with FH last night. He laughed at me when I asked if we should send out invites. Although I think for a really formal rehearsal dinner with a larger party, ivitations are neccesary. So I guess it depends whose on the guest list! In my case we decided, it will be strictly wedding party (and their s/o's), our parents, and grandparents. I am going to probably email the ones who have email and give a phonecall to the people who dont.... Ours is really casual, just pizza at a local pizza restaurant after meeting at the church. I think it should be totally up to you and whoever is hosting!

We are hosting the rehearsal (and wedding) and it will definitely be informal. We plan on going to a bar/restaurant for drinks and dinner after the rehearsal at the hotel. I guess I'll just send an informal invite out from Vistaprint (love that site) with all the details for the dinner portion of the rehearsal. I figure that the wedding party will already know the details of the rehearsal, so there's no need to mention the time/place of it. Thanks!

@Michelle - thank you! I have been misinformed. We are hosting the dinner and the wedding ourselves and so much going on but this was helpful!

@jennifer- haha, we date twins we think a like!!

As Spunky Kraut mentioned, it's always a good idea to send some sort of invitation. It's a little extra work now, but will make life a lot easier when the dinner comes around. The last thing you want when you have wedding to do's on your mind is to worry about the rehearsal guest attendance. In fact, if it is a casual dinner, Evite's are great! You keep all your RSVP's in one location and if you need to send an update, everyone is one click away. For a more formal dinner, a physical invitation is best, but you can always ask them to rsvp through email so that you don't have to rely on memory when they rsvp by phone. Anything to make your life a little less stressful!

Meg West

Events by M and M

I'd use evites

We got a phone call about todd's sister's dinner... but todd was in the wedding too. I think an e-vite, email, or call shall suffice!

Invites are not necissary. It all depends on how ellaborate you want to make it. Keep it simple, save on the postage/time/invites and just call them personally - they'd probably like the personal invite anyways and want to catch up on how things are going for you