How far in advance should rehearsal dinner invitations be distributed? It'll probably be by e-mail or phone calls, nothing printed.
Our wedding is on a holiday Monday. Our rehearsal (full nuptial Mass with only one catholic bridal party member) is 4pm the Saturday before. Our rehearsal dinner is 6pm after the rehearsal. The "must-invites" for the rehearsal dinner total 22 out of the 30 seats the room holds. Those 22 people have already been given a kind of "heads-up"/"save-the-date" about the rehearsal and dinner.
It's just the other 8 possible people, likely future in-laws from out-of-town, where I need to develop a timeline for selecting them, inviting them, and gathering Rsvps. The venue's headcount deadline is like 3 days before, so it's not really a factor.