Do you send out invites for the rehearsal dinner?

Mapper71

Just curious if you need to send invites for this or just send people emails or call them? What about the priest?

SaraAndrew2010

Most people send invites for the rehersal dinner.  They don't have to be anywhere near as fancy as the wedding invites.  I've seen ones printed off a computer or the kind you can buy at Target. 

It's considered polite to invite the priest. 

mlhw-nh

I am sending the rehearsal dinner invites.  I am inviting the priest.  It is polite to invite them plus ours will probably be the life of the party!  He is pretty funny!

ring_pop

Ours was a super casual affair and I sent out all of the info by email. Our priest didn't do the rehearsal but I invited the guy who coordinated it. (He didn't attend.)

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I have heard mixed things on this one. But, yes, I think it is a good idea too. I would think it would be easier to just drop them in the mail instead of getting in touch with everyone to let them know. All in all, I am leaving it up to FMIL, but I hope she does do it.

wparsons1223

Ours is really casual and at the church hall. We are just letting everyone know by word of mouth or at the rehersal.

ootmother2

yes, rather the groom's parents did as they hosted the RD.

The pastor was invited but declined and the deacon who performed the wedding was the bride's uncle and he came with his wife.

akg0053

We aren't doing a formal rehearsal dinner because our wedding is a Friday, so we are doing a brunch Saturday after the wedding instead. We are sending invites for brunch, so I would imagine you would send invites to the rehearsal. 

Our priest is invited to brunch, and he would also be invited to rehearsal dinner. 

mswood1977

My FMIL is handling the rehersal dinner, she is sending out invitations.  We will ask the priest to join us but I don't think she is mailing him an invitation like the other guest.

Riss91

We made simple invites for our RD and we mailed them out to everyone, including the priests. We held our RD in a nicer restaurants, so we wanted to keep the formality.

Kaye Smith

We just chose our reherarsal dinner location so I was wondering the same thing!  I think we will have actual invitations and most likely will just hand it to the priest the next time we meet with him. 

Calypso1977

there was only 12 people attending, so i just emailed everyone.  our priest came and had such a good time.  he rarely gets a nice meal out so i was so happy we could do this for him.

boogerbearoriginal

We're just doing phone/email since ours is casual. I've not been in a lot of weddings, but the few I've been in I've never received an actual invitation to the rehearsal dinner. 

mbcdefg

We just called and e-mailed people, since we're expecting no more than 20.

We invited the priest to the RD. I don't know if he'll come (I know he's coming to the reception the next day), but since it's only pizza and appetizers we don't really need a head count. I told the restaurant that we'd have a group of maybe 20 coming, so we'll call ahead and tell them to start cooking the appetizers once we finish with the rehearsal, and then we will order the pizzas once we get to the restaurant.

Jessynlove

my soon to be mother in law did. To that and also the brunch the day after the wedding.

Its a good idea...and also very sweet keepsake ha