Did you send RD invites?

KellyBrian2013 · July 2012

FI informed me last night that his parents, who are hosting the RD, are not planning to send out any invitations. They are planning on just letting everyone know via word-of-mouth.

I've always understood that the RD should have some sort of paper invite, but I could be wrong. Did anyone else not send RD invites?

HockeyFan4 · July 2012

nope. We just called people. We only had wedding party/family of wedding party and one out of town guest at ours though.

angelsong21 · July 2012

MIL sent out formal invites to everyone for the RD, but it wasn't necessary. Everyone already knew by word-of-mouth what the plan was before the invites ever came.

mbuckley85 · July 2012

Yes, we will, but we have an unusual situation where my FMIL wants to invite a crapload of people to the RD that ordinarily wouldn't be invited to a rehearsal. Whatever, its her money so she can invite whoever the frig she wants I guess...

jessicabessica · July 2012

I would send out some kind of invitation--a paper card, an evite, an email, just something so the guests will reliably have the details.

libby2483 · July 2012

We are telling our wedding party and their SOs via Facebook message, and we are calling grandparents, my aunts who are reading, and my uncle who is the officiant. No formal invitations for us.

Bonzo2011 · July 2012

I let everyone involved in the rehearsal know the plan via email, then MIL sent paper invitations. It was nice for those who hadn't been to my ILs house to have the address on a piece of paper. It wasn't anything fancy, just something she printed at home.

lyndausvi · July 2012

we did it via word of mouth.

Loopyseven · July 2012

We did it via word of mouth, and e-mail so people had addresses and directions.

wrigleyville · July 2012

We're inviting people by phone and then following up with an email since some people like to have a printed version. Plus, if they're on a smart phone, some email programs will capture the address from the email and put it into their GPS app or a similar map program.

Lizzieyounce · July 2012

We're doing invites. Most of our guest list are very close friends and family from OOT, so were inviting them to the RD. It's a back yard BBQ, and it will give us all a chance to relax and visit before the big day. I'm looking forward to it.

joleri23 · July 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_did-you-send-rd-invites?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:fbd53541-d5a9-4576-8666-f2aa43cf9eb0Post:0d46f94b-9515-48e1-9bb6-8371fd43bdd8">Re: Did you send RD invites?</a>:
[QUOTE]I would send out some kind of invitation--a paper card, an evite, an email, just something so the guests will reliably have the details.
Posted by jessicabessica[/QUOTE]

Ditto! An evite will take just a couple of minutes (or even just an email) and then at least you know everyone has the same information.

Kris012 · July 2012

We're going to do emails.

blgrout · July 2012

We sent out an evite for ours. It took 5 minutes, and that way everyone had some sort of solid confirmation about where/when/what instead of a word of mouth invite.

[Deleted User] · July 2012

My FMIL didn't want to send out invites, but expected us to let everyone know. We did not want to deal with letting people know and then reminding them when they forgot to write the info down ect. So we bought the RD invites and sent them out ourselves.

whitsy · July 2012

Only people that were needed in the rehearsal were invited to the RD, so we just did word of mouth. Texts, calls, etc. I think it also might depend on the formality of the RD. If it's a proper, sit down, fancy kinda thing, I would think the invite would need to match the formality.

J&K10910 · July 2012

We only had people people that were necessary at the rehearsal at the dinner, so we just sent FB messages to the ones with FB and called our parents to let them know the details.

If you're having more than that, I think some sort of invitation is helpful.

hoffse · July 2012

It looks like ours is going to be at a nice restaurant with all of the wedding party + out of town family. It works out to about 80 people, so we're doing paper invites. It's the one thing I insist on. FILs are paying, but I'll foot the bill for the invitations if necessary, mostly so that we can keep track of RSVPs - the restaurant is going to need a head count with that many people.

lauraanne9 · July 2012

We are sending e-vites to our people. Less expensive that the paper ones and also allows for changing of them at the last minute, as we are still not sure how many people we want there...will really depend on how many OOT guests attend....

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