Rehearsal Dinner

[Lindy]

Who should be invited to a rehearsal dinner for a wedding consisting of the bride and groom, best man and maid of honor?

[WebLady]

Usually the RD is for those that had to be at the rehearsal ... the bride and groom, wedding party (and their SO) and parents. Sometimes people will invite grandparents and other close friends and family and OTGs too.

[shopmysongs]

I agree with Weblady. We had 20+ people come from Italy for my son's wedding & we invited all of them. We had everyone that came to rehersal including readers. We did a house dinner since there were so many people.

[Genevieve04]

The last wedding I went to (my future brother in law's) tons of people were invited. Even I was invited! My fiance's parents let everyone bring dates and family were invited too.

[taubakalupe]

I will be making out an itinerary to give to everyone involved. The last rehearsal dinner we were involved in lasted a total of 15 minutes and cost the grooms parents over a 1000 bucks. But it is a good time for the bride and groom to give the party gifts and to say some thank yous.

[Katie-ryn]

We'll be inviting our immediate families, the wedding party and their sig others.

So for my side that'd be my mom, her bf, my dad (if I decide to invite him to the wedding), my sister/MOH, her bf (if she is still dating him then), and my other siblings. For his it would be his mom and dad (who are hosting it), his sister (and her bf if she has one at the time) and his best man (and they're sig other if they have one at the time).

We are not inviting grandparents or out of town guests. His grandparents are all deceased, and I have 5 that are still alive. We'll have many out of town guests, but they're all people who regularly visit the town we're getting married in, so it's not like they wont know where to go/what to do to amuse themselves.

We're just doing a barbeque (I assume) at the FIL's place. I'm not exactly sure what we'll be eating, all I know is the offered to host the rehearsal dinner at their place.

[sandy03]

Don't forget your officiant if he/she is at your rehearsal and any musicians that are at the rehearsal!!

We invited all the people staying at the hotel, plus immediate family (which we defined as "who comes to family holidays?" so we had like 75 people! It was very laid back at a funky local deli and not a formal dinner but everyone had a lot of fun!

[Katie-ryn]

Don't forget your officiant if he/she is at your rehearsal and any musicians that are at the rehearsal!!

We invited all the people staying at the hotel, plus immediate family (which we defined as "who comes to family holidays?" so we had like 75 people! It was very laid back at a funky local deli and not a formal dinner but everyone had a lot of fun!

I've been a singer at a wedding before and I didn't get invited to the rehearsal dinner, just the rehearsal itself.

I'm not planning on having any musicians myself. And unless Jason's uncle can be our officiant then they're probably not going to be invited either.

If I invited everyone who was staying at a hotel, and all the people who go to holiday dinners, than that would be my whole guest list!

[Tadswife]

We invited both sets of parents, the wedding party the officiant and that all added up to about 20+ people. We to gave out gifts and itinary of the wedding day..