Rehearsal Dinner Invites

AmyNoelle

What's the etiquette for rehearsal dinner invites?  Can they be done via email and if so, would Evite be okay?  Or are their any other cool and free invite sites you have used?  I have no problem writing out paper invitations but would rather do them electronically just for speed and ease.

What are your thoughts and/or what did you do for yours?  Thanks knotties!

Milsey32

We just did it by word of mouth. No bother wasting time or paper. Everyone was there, no problem.

Meegles4

My MIL used e-vite. It worked well. One dumb thing that's probably obvious to you, but really wasn't to me: include timing for both the rehearsal and dinner following. MIL's e-vite only included info. for the dinner, and I communicated rehearsal info. in my timeline e-mail to the WP. We still got questions about when things started, because they didn't read the longer e-mail and it wasn't on the event invite.

Also, who is hosting? The host should send them. So if someone other than you/FI is hosting it, you should provide them an e-mail list and the pertinent details time and place for rehearsal and dinner, so that the host can send them.

MrsGilliatt

I'm making mine...seems easy enough - we are only inviting 50 people to ours so it's not going to be a big enough deal to order invitations.

Milsey32

Also -  I agree that the host should technically send the invite, but my FIL "hosted" it and uh... we were planning to pay if he randomly left or something last minute because he's not reliable. 

And wow, Mrs. Gilliatt, I would've sent invites if we had 50 people! 

Sue-n-Kevin

I sent paper invites, but only because I had been at Michael's and saw some that matched our black & white theme for $2.50, LOL. Plus, a lot of people rely on "paper" as much as we try to be a paperless society. Having the times and directions in your hand (for those that don't have or use calendars on their PDA) is helpful.

ermjdecember2015

Our rehearsal dinner is just going to be small, the bridal party, parents, and grandparents only. Basically only the people directly involved in the ceremony. Our families are just way too big to include everyone and if we did, we'd have just as many people at the rehearsal dinner as there would be at the wedding. Anyways, because of that, we will probably just do word of mouth or write out invites.

mlynn1223

We aren't doing any since there will only be 20 people and they are all immediate family.  We did everything by word of mouth.  We had map cards in the invitation and on our website.  Plus my family is very tech savvy and probably already has it in the GPS and/or phone.  

KBLDC2012

I did paper invites, but I don't think you have to. I wanted everything to be formal so I chose to, I think it depends on your style. My rehearsal dinner itself was laid back so it didn't need formal invites, I just chose to bc they were pretty cheap like maybe $30-$40 with postage (we invtied like 45 people, wedding party was 22). The other reason why paper is a good idea, your wedding party has a tangible reference to the rehearsal directions and any details like time to keep them on top of the plans. It's definitely not a make or break issue!

MrsGilliatt

I should've added that I had a super creative idea for mine and couldn't pass the opportunity to make them since I'm not normally such a DIY'er.  It's my way of saying I'm a DIY'er

MMRoberts11

We're doing paper invites but we got some for free from a friend that all I had to do was print the info on.

Felicity&Bri

I think Evites would be perfectly acceptable!  Plus it's easier for people to just go into their email and find the info quickly rather than trying to remember what they did with that paper invite.  I say save the money

janicejab

  Our parents hosted the RD and my MIL sent out paper invites. We just ordered them when we ordered the wedding invitations and she sent them out.