Long post, sorry in advance.
FI and I live two hours apart. We have 6 BMs, 6 GMs, a flower girl, a ring bearer, and someone to escort the FG and RB down the aisle (she'll be 12, not sure what to call her). 5 WP members live nearby, 1 lives an hour away, 4 live 2 hours away in FI's city, 4 live out of state, and 1 is military and isn't even sure if he'll be able to make it to the wedding. That's not even counting my family or FI's family.
On top of this, our venue doesn't have a night-before rehearsal. The women show up first, rehearse quickly, then shuffle off the get ready/hide. Then the guys show up, rehearse, and then I guess the WP rehearses together? I don't know. Ceremony is at 1:00
So... do we have a rehearsal dinner, since there is technically no rehearsal? There is pretty much no way we'll have everyone together to do a rehearsal before the morning of the wedding, and I'm pretty sure several of our WP will be going home either right after the reception (ends at 4:30) or later that night.
TL;DR - We're not having a rehearsal until the morning of the wedding, and half our WP lives an hour or more away. Do we need to have a rehearsal dinner?
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