Who do you invite to the Rehearsal Dinner?

LoveYouB · February 2012

Only people going to the actual rehearsal and their dates? Or other family as well that dont really need to be at the actual rehearsal?

Im trying to book the rehearsal dinner and do not have a clear number at all.. Thanks!!

LoveYouB · February 2012

Also, do you send out invitations to this, or just call and tell people about it?

DrPB2b13 · February 2012

Both my family and FI's only invite immediate family (parents, grandparents, siblings) and the members of the WP, with any necessary SO's, so that's what we're doing.

I think invitations depend on your family as well. I believe my FMIL will be, since she is hosting the RD and not us, so it's up to her to make sure people know they're invited. If you guys are hosting it, and only planning on inviting the members of your WP and immediate family, I see nothing wrong with a call or email with the information ("So the rehearsal is at 4 on Friday, we hope you can make it, and we will be taking everyone to dinner afterward at 6").

kelsey+brandon · February 2012

We're inviting the bridal party and dates as well as our immediate family who will already be in town for the wedding. For my side this includes all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins as well as my grandparents. For FI, we're not sure who's going to make it from his side of the wedding, let alone come up the day before (the wedding's less than 2 hours from his hometown), but for those of his aunts/uncles/cousins who will be in town, they'll be invited as well.

We'll probably have about 60 people at ours.

laurabub · February 2012

We are including everyone that is travelling from out of town (probably around 85 people). My half of the family and a few on my FI's side are from out of town, so we wanted to host them for the weekend. I'm not sure what we are doing for the invites, but if you are having a small rehearsal dinner I think a phone call or email would be simple and nice.

KrisKenny · February 2012

We are only inviting our parents, the wedding party and their SOs, one of my brothers & his GF (as they are my RB's parents), the organist, and the musician I'm using for my entrance song (she's my mom's friend anyways).

I will also be doing invitations. More so that they can't say that they didn't know what time and such.

ncd5015 · February 2012

We're inviting WP, with SO's, immediate family, which is my mom's sisters and their families, grandparents, FIL's siblings and their families, and OOT guests. Our list is somewhere between 60 and 70 guests.

As for invitations, FMIL is still debating about them. Immediate family already knows about the RD and is planning on attending, however I'm not sure about the OOT guests. Sorry, I'm no help on this one!

HarperBargo · February 2012

I personally think it depends on your budget. I think it is a nice gesture to extend an invite to OOT guests but it isn't mandatory. As for invitations again I think it is nice. It gives everyone the information in written form but it is not necessary. We are doing invitations but just getting them from VP. Nothing too exciting.

MMRoberts11 · February 2012

We are also having just our immediate family and those involved in the ceremony plus any SOs.

Also, we are doing invites for it. My FILs are hosting and they wanted to do them.

[Deleted User] · February 2012

I was thinking BP & their SO along with siblings & grandparents. I didn't feel aunts & uncles need to be included in this event unless they are OOT guests (which oot are included in our rehersal dinner). My fiance parents & my mother have lits of siblings, it would be a huge dinner event. Is my way of thinking old school? Any wedding I was ever part of, that was the people that were included.

diamondx423 · February 2012

Ours is small because we need to do it the week before due to the church's services. So its wedding party & dates; parents, grandparents FIs sister and readers. For my cousins in the WP their parents are invited as well. Its probably going to be 25 people there (some live OOT and won't make it)

Hilraythebride · February 2012

We are inviting the wedding party, parents, and grandparents. We are having my FI's cousin as the alter boy and another as the JrBM. Even though they will be coming, we are not inviting their parents because that will just make another group of people to invite (FI has 4 aunts or uncles on his dads side not including their SO) and it would get really big really fast so we are not going to do that.

LoveYouB · February 2012

Thank you!! I think we will stick to immediate family + WP/SOs. We dont have many OOT guests so that shouldnt be a big deal. Im still undecided as to invites, so I think I'll play around on VP tonight and maybe come up with some cute cheap invites. Invites would probably be appreciated and definitely a good way to make sure everyone has the info all set.

Cassandra999 · February 2012

We are trying to keep ours small. We are just inviting the wedding party, our siblings, our parents, officiant, and our grandparents. If we invited aunts, uncles and cousins it would be most of our wedding guests.

I am sending seperate invites, just to make sure these people know when the rehearsal is and when the dinner is.

Elizabeth80 · February 2012

I'm planning to have the WP only as we are paying for it as a couple. The WP includes some of his immediate family and some of mine but not all and our parents. Total it will be around 30 ppl. If his parents decide to pay for it then they can have whomever they want and that works for me!:-)

As invites go we won't worry about it as everyone will be at the rehersal anyway. I may do something formal for the parents as a keepsake more so then for informational purposes.

MichelleAG05 · February 2012

I ditto Kelsey's story - even down to the number of people we're expecting!!

courtneyclare103 · February 2012

We're inviting parents, grandparents, WP and dates, aunts, uncles, first cousins, and FI's mom is inviting a few OOT guests. We're almost at 100 for our rehearsal...yikes!

jaime10285 · February 2012

Our wedding is already bigger than I had hoped. We're inviting 188 to the wedding, I really wanted like 150 so I wanted the RD to be smaller and more intimate. We're just inviting WP, parents, siblings, grandparents and SOs for those who have them which is like 20-25 people. FMIL at first suggested OOT aunts/uncles/cousins but when I told her that meant another 16 people plus FI's side, she realized that was bigger than I hoped for. We do have a minimum at the restaurant in order to have the RD in a private room so I'm hoping we can cover it easily enough with the 20 or so people...

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