How do you notify guests of the Rehearsal?

bbear00

We are having our rehearsal at a location that is not the ceremony location and not the rehearsal dinner location. Therefore, the bridal party and family need to know the location and time.  Do you put the rehearsal details on the Rehearsal dinner invitation or do you just make phone calls/email?

lyndausvi

We did word of mouth. I mean they should be your close friends/family surely you talk to them right?

Summer2011Bride

We invited 50+ people to the RD because we included OOT guests, so we chose to do informal invitations (nothing super fancy that I got really cheaply on VP) and sent those out about a month prior to the wedding. Word of mouth is fine though too.

ETA: Forgot to mention we put the rehearsal info at the bottom of the RD invite.

Miss_2010

I guess word of mouth, I always thought the rehearsal was only for those people involved with the wedding...minus if you throw a party afterwards?

MrsGandthebeag

You could also do it by email.

bbear00

Thank you.  I think we will keep it off the RD invitations and just spread the word!

angelsong21

Word of mouth also worked just fine for us for an RD of about 20 people.

mrsR12

We did an evite for the RD since we are only inviting family, bridal party and readers plus their signitficant others.  

Kristin789

The RD and the RD invitations are just about the only things that the groom's parents get to host in this whole weekend of wedding events hosted by the bride's parents.  Let them have the RD invitations.

Tell your WP about the odd choice for rehearsal by word of mouth.

egeurts

For the Rehearsal we sent out letters with a whole schedule of the wedding-weekend to everyone involved in the wedding party and our parents. It basically said, "thank you for being a part of our day, here is a schedule of events: Rehearsal on Friday, BBQ, Saturday pictures start at 1:30 here, ceremony starts at 4, reception starts at 6, sunday there's an optional brunch..." etc etc etc. We personalized each letter/schedule to who it was being sent to (like the bridal party we included times for getting hair and makeup done for the girls). That way everyone knows where they need to be and when, including parents.

OOT guests that are coming to the after-rehearsal BBQ are being told by email or phonecall.