Who is invited to rehearsal dinner?

Usually out of town (we take it as out of state, not 1 hour away) guests, the bridal party and their spouses/significant others, parents, grandparents, readers...its really a polite things to do (meaning provide food) for those who have traveled from out of state to be at your cousins wedding.

What maltese said. The BP, parents, grandparents, anyone else participating in the ceremony, and out of town guests. The people paying can invite extra people if they want to though.

Our rehearsal dinner includes bridal party and all of our out of town guests (so basically every wedding guest). We call it our Welcome dinner on the invite.

Since all guests are traveling to our wedding we want to wine and dine them during the wedding weekend!

Same as @Maltese_by_future_marriage!

We are limiting ours to those participtaing in the rehearsal. We were open to and perfectly willing to invite bf/gfs of the bp but the preference of our bp was to just have a quick rehearsal and quick casual dinner sans bfs/gfs so we will be having a small bridal party only casual one. We are hardly the rule however. I believe its suppssed to be truly out of town guests, parents/grandparents and bridal party/spouses.

Bridal party (and their guests) and immediate families for sure. Out of town guests if you would like. We are not going to be inviting our out of town guests simply because 80% of our guests are from out of town, and if we started inviting some, where would we draw the line? If the bride and groom want it to be a smaller, intimate affair with just their wedding party, parents, and siblings, then that's the way it should be and mom should respect that, especially if the bride and groom aren't super close to her sisters.

I already told my wedding planner the day of the rehearsal only the bridal party parents singers Dj and pastor. No aunts cousin or anyone can come or they will be kicked out.

It's really just wedding party, their SOs, and immediate family that HAVE to be invited. Many people include out of town guests (we did but we didn't have a ton). But, if the groom's parents are paying, they should be able to invite the guests they want to include. He/she who pays gets a say. If the groom doesn't want his aunts there, he can decline his parents' money and pay himself.

We are inviting our wedding party, their SOs, and anyone who reasonable needs to get on an airplane to come to our wedding. Which, as it turns out, is 85% of our guest list.

We are inviting the bridal party, their spouses and people involved in the ceremony. That's it. We have a TON of out of town guests who will be in the area that evening, but since there are so many of them, we are not having any. Otherwise the cost of it would have gotten out of hand. We area already having ~30 people at the rehearsal dinner. If we invited all of the out of towners, it would be upwards of 70. Practically a wedding at that point!

Out of town guests don't need to be invited. It's just the BP and sig others, parents, officiant. it's not supposed to be another wedding.....

We're only having our bridal party (which is only my son, MOH and Bestman) their spouses, our parents, my grandparents (FH does not have any living GPs) and possibly the pastor if he would like to join. Our Only OOT guests are FH parents.

We are having this issue. Our rehearsal dinner is going to be 40-60 people if my mother has her way(thats half the wedding guest list!)