Rehearsal dinner invitations?

quincygirl77

It's a multiple post kind of day for me I guess  Can you tell I'm frantically trying to get my invitations out the door, argh!?

What did you guys do about the RD invitations?  Did you include a separate card with info. in your invitations or mail it separately?  We are inviting about 40 people or so to the dinner, which is roughly a third of our guest list.

Also any creative wording you did for the invitation?

mollymcshea

I sent them out separately....I did a newsletter format for our wedding party with the important info for the weekend, then menu for the rehearsal, etc. Our RD is pretty informal -- just at a restaurant so I just am having people email me if they are coming or not and a with a guest or not. 

bemistobe

I sent mine out separately as well - I also ordered them from Vista Print and included directions from the rehearsal location to the dinner location.

esunada

I am doing an evite.  Rehearsal invites don't need to be formal.  I am sending it out a week after i sent the wedding invites because we have a lot of out of towners.  If people are in town though I would wait till a month out depending on where you're holding it.  But if you plan on mailing them anyway, why not include a card with your wedding invites.  Saves you stamps. 

shan87

My mom sent them out seperately. We printed them at home, we bought the invite "kit" at Target. (The black and white one with a cake on it)

Our RD was pretty informal as well.

As for wording we did this...
"Practice makes perfect...
 Please join us for David and Shannan's Wedding Rehearsal
at
X Church at X Time, X Day

Dinner to follow at the Mother of the Bride's house
X Address

wittyschaffy

I don't remember the exact wording but it was along the lines of, As we celebrate the eve of our wedding, we wouldnt' want to spend it any other way than in the company of our family and friends.  Please join us for a rehearsal dinner at X, time Y etc. etc. etc. and reply by Date to Mom with your meal choice from the following list.

I just bought an invite kit from Target for ours. We did our rehearsal at our rehearsal dinner so I asked the people who needed to rehearse to arrive a half hour prior to the rest of the group and it worked out great.  I just put that info on a slip of paper tucked into their invite envelope.

newlyseliski

heh heh.... we did an e-vite!  my in-laws had challenges getting it coordinated to begin with (some nonsense with the catering manager versus restaurant manager at Green Mill)... so it was a last minute thing separate from the invitation.  They worded it like this:

What a great way to come together
to meet, greet, and eat!

Come enjoy and relax at a private party
immediately following the church
rehearsal.  We have an excellent
selection of main entrées &
hors d'oeuvres that will be
awaiting your arrival!  We look forward to meeting you.

Newly In-Laws

Sarahsue1684

We did it through text,FB and emal.

[Deleted User]

I just sent an email to everyone letting them know the details.  My IL's paid for most of the RD so I felt like technically they were "hosting it" and if invites were to be sent MIL would have needed to initiate or at least express intrest in wanting to send them, which they didn't so I just sent an email letting everyone know the dealio 

leggwilliams

I sent out seperate ones I made on Vistaprint. Pics are in my bio

beka0404

My MIL sent them out seperately. Wording was pretty typical:

Join us for a rehearsal dinner

in honor of

Kate

&

Dave

Friday, October 15 at 7:00 pm

[venue name & address]

Hosted by [MIL]

RSVP to xxx-xxx-xxxx

by October 4th

ogrady88

I don't have the file with me here at work, but we sent them as an insert in the wedding invites to those guests who were invited to the RD. We were hosting the event, so I think it said something about joining Lindsey and Josh...