Hi everyone! My fiance and I are marrying in our "home" parish... but neither of us attend often. (I go to grad school in another state and often go to Mass there; he usually attends with his family in a neighboring parish.)
FH's best friend was recently ordained and will be performing our wedding (not in his home parish or diocese). Obviously, he's invited (and coming, and riding in the limo!) to the rehearsal dinner and reception. However, we're not doing our marriage prep meetings with him, we're doing them with the parish priest.
My question is, do we invite the parish priest to the rehearsal dinner or reception? He's not performing either the rehearsal or the ceremony, but we are meeting and talking with him about pretty serious stuff three times before the wedding. Like I mentioned before, we don't attend Mass there regularly right now, so we also don't know him very well outside of the prep sessions.