When to send rehearsal dinner invites?

I am not sending out rehearsal dinner invites. I do not see a need for them. Normally once wedding rehearsal is over the dinner follow. Wedding party only or wedding party and out of town guest.

I've never seen invites for it, but that might be better if some people tend to forget details. I would say to send them out maybe a month in advance.

Edited because I read your post wrong!

I am going to send them a month out. I have the time/date/place of the church and the dinner on there (with directions). It saves me emailing/texting/calling everyone to only have them forget or misplace the info and contact me the day off. I'm hoping this approach saves some of my sanity.

Mrs Jones, what about the significant others of those in your bridal party? I assume they wouldn't attend the actual rehearsal part.

We are inviting bridal party, parents, siblings, grandparents and significant others to the dinner. We are then hosting a welcome party at the hotel where we and our guests are staying, which is open to anyone who wants to come.

AprilBride the significant others are more than welcome to come.

Denise, a month out sounds right. We just got ours in the mail today, and I guess I am just chomping at the bit to cross something else off the to do list, lol!

I made a digital invite to send via text. Since FH's half are from out of town we let everyone know this week for planning purposes. And they can always go back in their phones to see the details as it gets closer.

I am also sending RD invites so that everyone has all the details. I have always gotten an invite for the 6 weddings I've been in. I would send them about a month out!

Anyone who is flying/ travelling I would send them soon after you send the wedding invites so they can make plans to attend. If people are local, a month is fine.

I am sending mine out right after my RSVP deadline-so about 4 weeks before.

Are these necessary? I totally wasn't going to do them at all.

I never thought about sending out rehearsal dinner invites. Doubt I do it

Futuremrslav, I don't think you have to do them, we just wanted to. For a larger dinner I don't know that I would have bothered. FMIL wanted to though. For our welcome party afterward, which is open to all guests, we are doing a Paperless Post evite, some people have all the details.

I've heard 4 to 6 weeks and that it is also acceptable to send them with their wedding invitation. Having a walk through of our ceremony with the officiant and wedding party is important for us so that everyone kind of has a feel for everything that will be going on and there will be no questions about what to do when the following day (mostly for my peace of mind, I don't want to have to hold people's hands because they don't know when they are supposed to walk down the aisle and with who lol) and I don't think some of our wedding party members even know what a wedding rehearsal and rehearsal dinner is...so for us, invitations will be very necessary!

I'm not sending invites. It's only 11 people including me and FH, so we are just telling people when/where

Mine went out with my invitations.

We're still debating doing them. If we do, we'll send them out with the invitations.

I think I'll wait until next week and send them at the five week mark. Thanks all!