Who's included in rehearsal dinner?

If they’re not going to the rehearsal they don’t have to be invited to the dinner.

Wedding party and parent are the only ones i would include

Rehearsal dinner typically is the wedding party and out of town guests and the parents. We plan on having ours at home due to tight budget. It will be salad, lasagna, and we may bring in a tray of chicken from a nearby restaurant.

I would say that the ushers are not needed, but I would definitely invite the grandparents! This is a big part of the family events and you would hate to leave them out!

Anyone involved in the processional was involved in ours so officiant and his wife, parents, bridal party (plus 2 spouses), and my brother. We had 3 additional out of town guests that we wanted to spend more time with so they were invited . I think we had 19 total.
If grandparents had been involved in the processional they would have been invited too. Who ever attends the rehersal should go to the rehersal dinner. So if they’re not attending rehersal them not going to the dinner is fine.

We are having a larger rehearsal dinner because 95% of our guests are going to be OOT.

the general rule is family and anyone involved in the wedding/rehearsal should be invited to the dinner. I would definitely recommend including your grandparents.

I would generally invite the GPs, but would like to know why they are not interested. It may be too late at night for them. If that is the case, don't invite

We've invited: parents, siblings and their SOs, bridal party and their guests, officiant, and our DJ friend. FHs family is all coming from out of state and we've invited them as well since his dad is paying for dinner.

All in all we're expecting about 30 people between the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. We may ask guests and SOs to wait in the other room of our venue so that we can' rehearse with less eyes and less distractions.

Unfortunately our grandparents aren't with us anymore. If they were, we would 100% include them in the RD. We didn't have ushers, but in my opinion anyone in the wedding (and ushers are) should be invited.

I think that sounds fine! I think the wedding party and parents would be the most important to iclude

Hi Jennifer,

Our rehearsal is a little different. The traditional is only the bridal party and parents. But my Brazilian family would not accept that LOL. So we are having my moms sisters there as well, grandparents and my fiance's uncle. It is really up to you! You do not have to do anything a certain way. Whatever you feel comfortable and happy with.