When or should the bridal party meet?

They don't need to meet before the wedding. It should just happen naturally when the time comes, which is likely the rehearsal.

I was thinking of having a night out for my bridesmaids to meet the groomsmen. I don’t know if it’s necessary but I just thought it’s be a good idea. I haven’t brought it up to my fiancé yet because I’m trying to get him to decide on other things first

They don't have to meet before the wedding/rehearsal but if you want to invite them all to dinner or something, have a bbq at your house that would be fine. Just know that having everyone's schedules line up might be difficult.

I think it's ok to meet at rehearsal. I know at my dinner they got the chance to socialize

Most of our wedding party knows each other (if they don't know each other then they've heard of each other) just because of parties we've thrown or in just general conversation

I think if everyone's schedules line up, then it would be fun to go out to dinner and meet everyone!

My bridal party hasn't met and won't meet until the rehearsal. This is mainly because half of my bridal party is out of town. I wouldn't sweat it.

My husband’s groomsmen all knew each other at least slightly.. 2 of his groomsmen were from high school and 2 from college, one of the high school ones had met both of the college ones, and the other high school one had virtually met the college ones via playing online video games together over the years lol. So they all already “knew” each other for the most part.



2 of my bridesmaids already knew each other. They met bridesmaid #3 at my shower. My fourth bridesmaid was unable to make the shower, so she met everyone at the rehearsal.

A couple of the bridesmaids and groomsmen had met each other as well, but the rest just met at the rehearsal!

I don't think it's necessary for the wedding party to meet. My FH's groomspeople will meet at the bachelor trip since they don't all know each other and the groomspeople will meet my bridesmaids at the rehearsal. I didn't meet some of my sister's bridesmaids or her husbands groomsmen until we got to their rehearsal and it was fine (honestly, I don't think I said more than a few words to the groomsmen the entire weekend as we didn't need to interact much at all).

I don't think they necessarily need to meet before the rehearsal - and the rehearsal is a great time for everyone to get to chat and know each other better! If you are interested in having them all get to know each other before the big day, instead of a bridal shower have a couple's or "jack and jill" shower where everyone can get together. Since the wedding is still over a year away you would also have time to throw an engagement party if you want