When to do rehearsal at venue?

This is a great question to ask the venues. Every location handles situations differently. When I was looking at venues, we asked how early we could set up decorations for a Friday wedding. Some places said the Wednesday before while others said Noon the day of the wedding.

I highly recommend you bring a list of any questions you may have when looking at venues.

If the place you love won't let you rehearse there the night before, you could always rehearse on your own somewhere else. It's not a good as being at your actual ceremony location, but t at least your party will have some idea on how you plan the ceremony to go.

Each venue is different as we wouldve needed to book the full day before our wedding as well to ensure we got the space the day before our wedding. They suggested we reach out to them about a month before the wedding to see if anyone had booked for the previous night. If not, we could use the space for a small fee. Most likely we will do the rehearsal the morning of, but we've also thought about doing it somewhere random since its more about timing and less about the venue itself. Ours is pretty self explanatory on where theyll walk and wont take more than a minute of explanation.

We did our rehearsal the night before. You will be so busy on the day of the wedding, you won't really have time to rehearse then anyway.

We did our rehearsal the afternoon of the day before our wedding, which also happened to be my husband's birthday. Normally they didn't do Friday rehearsals to keep things open for events, but we promised to be in and out in 90 minutes. We were, too.

Definitely ask venues when you're looking around. A 1-hour rehearsal/walk-through was included in our venue's contract, but we couldn't schedule it until 30 days before the wedding. We got married on a Friday evening and ended up with a Thursday afternoon rehearsal since the venue had a wedding that evening, but it all worked out great!