Rehearsal Dinner?

I’m only doing a rehearsal for the ceremony, we’ll likely have a dinner at one of our parents place the night before but nothing involving the wedding exactly. I’m not sure if that’s contradicting, but that’s the plan haha

It is not mandatory but it does give you and the wedding party a chance to go over things for the next day and for you to spend time with your nearest and dearest before the big day.

If you feel like you are well planned and it will go off with only a few inevitable mistakes (it will happen... regardless of whether you have a rehearsal dinner), then I would say that skipping out on it would be not only up to you - but also a little bit of a money saver. I have the venue the night before our wedding day so I will be doing one but only because I am very particular and like to have all my ducks in order.

View quoted message We are going this route as well Cheap and filling!

We had a welcome dinner for family and wedding party only the day before wedding. Rehearsal dinners have some speeches and a cake made just for thr dinner.

Personally I find it much since the cake is being served at reception as well as speeches given too.

View quoted message The Barbecue sounds like a great sides!

No you do! But we decided we will order pizza during the rehearsal as a “rehearsal dinner”.

View quoted message Wow! That’s great!

View quoted message That’s very interesting that that’s what it’s called and you do that in your culture!

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No you don't have to! My MIL wanted to do a traditional Romanian Dinner so we just had family over at the house. 3 days later we had the rehearsal and had not planned to do dinner. We ended up being hungry and just went to the local Swiss Chalet lol and we all had a great time. Here I was researching for months on where to go and in the end it just worked out on it's own!

No you don’t.

We’re having a wedding weekend and will have a welcome dinner the night before.

It will double as a Queh Queh (Guyanese celebration that happens the night before the wedding).

We aren’t. But we probably won’t have a rehearsal. It’s a second wedding for both of us and it’s just our kids in the wedding party.

my first wedding though we did. We had a rehearsal the evening before and then went for dinner afterwards. A lot of our wedding party was from out of town so this way they didn’t have to figure out their dinner, and we used it as an opportunity to thank our wedding party and give them their gifts.

It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. Can be as simple as backyard bbq.