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One part of your wedding planning that the bride shouldn’t have much to do with is the rehearsal dinner. The rehearsal dinner is typically hosted and paid for by the groom and his family. The rehearsal dinner isn’t just a time for everyone to meet and through the motions of the wedding to take place, but it’s also a time for the family to spend some quality time together before the wedding. As I’ve mentioned before in previous articles, you don’t really need to send out rehearsal dinner invitations, but using them could sure eliminate headaches when it comes to who is invited as well as getting the information out. There are many great verses and wording for rehearsal dinner invitations that you can use, some traditional and some just a lot of fun. Here are some ideas on how to word your rehearsal dinner invitations.

Not So Traditional Wording for Rehearsal Dinner Invitations:

John popped the question and Jane said “Yes”/ The wedding is ready, and she has her dress./Practice makes perfect for this day to be great/That’s what we’ll be doing - March 4 is the date./We’ll practice the ceremony, then once we’re free/Its off to the Roadhouse for dinner and sweet tea./ Please join the bride and groom at 6 o’clock at —–.

Practice makes perfect, it’s true what they say,/Please join us for a rehearsal, before our big day!/We’ll meet at the church, at 6 o’clock on the dot/where John and Jane will be tying the knot./After the practice, when is said and done/please join as at —- for food, fellowship and fun!

Traditional Wording for Rehearsal Dinner Invitations

In the wording for a traditional rehearsal dinner invitation, it is customary to mention the names of the people who are hosting the dinner. So here are some more traditional wordings for rehearsal dinner invitations.

Mr. and Mrs. John Doe request the pleasure of your company/at the Rehearsal dinner in honor of Joe and Janet/on Friday, the 23rd of March/at six o’clock in the evening/at Micheal’s Restaurant, 4583 Fourth Ave, College Station, TX.

Please join us for a rehearsal dinner/in honor of Joe and Janet/on July 12, 2009/at 6:00 pm/The Roadhouse/3829 West Manik Dr, San Francisco, California/Mr. and Mrs. John Doe.

Your rehearsal dinner can be as elegant or as laid back as you want it to be, and the wording of your rehearsal dinner invitations and the location of your rehearsal dinner will certainly be a indicator as well. There are lots of different verses and formats that you can use for wording rehearsal dinner invitations, and a little imagination and thought can get you some great original verses.

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This may seem odd to some people, but our wedding didn’t really seem real until all of our family started showing up for the rehearsal dinner. That’s when it really seemed to hit me, that hey I was getting married the next day, and all of those plans that I had been making for the past nine months were going to be the next day. It was a weird feeling. Maybe a mixture of nervousness mixed in with a feeling of happiness that so many of our family members had made it to the rehearsal dinner, some coming in from great distances. Our rehearsal dinner was a great time of being able to hang out with everyone and relax a little bit from all of the wedding planning that we had been doing. Now, as I’ve mentioned in a previous article, Our Rehearsal Dinner, we chose to hold the event in a rented party room of a nice steak house. And it was really elegant and beautiful, but you don’t have to have your rehearsal dinner that way. There are lots of great unique rehearsal dinner ideas that you can use to help ensure that you have the most fun with your family and friends before the wedding. Here are some of my favorite rehearsal dinner ideas.

Rehearsal Dinner Ideas - Sports

This is a great rehearsal dinner idea for all of you sport lovers out there. Instead of going to a fancy restaurant for your rehearsal dinner, why not have the wedding rehearsal early in the day, and then take the whole family out to the softball field, football field, volleyball court, or any other sport that you fancy. A great gift and helpful tool for the teams would be if you had t-shirts made with the bride or groom’s team. This makes a great gift they can take home, as well as helping you tell the different teams apart. Then, have someone grill hamburgers and hot dogs out there. You’re sure to have a rehearsal dinner your friends and family will never forget.

Rehearsal Dinner Ideas -Â Restaurant

I know I know, I said unique wedding ideas…but trust me. When my cousin got married, she chose a hip restaurant that was only a few blocks away from the wedding ceremony. It was so close we all walked to the restaurant where there was a large area set aside for the rehearsal dinner. The food was great, and the restaurant even had live music and a dance floor so that everyone could enjoy themselves. The reason this is in my list of great rehearsal dinner ideas is that it was a great time that the family could have together making memories, as well as a time for the bride and groom to kick back and relax a little bit.

Rehearsal Dinner Ideas - House Party

Instead of paying a bunch of money for a party room at a nice restaurant or hotel, why not just host the rehearsal in the home that the two of you will be sharing after the wedding? You can designate people to do the cooking (or cleaning), or just cater the event with your favorite restaurant, and let both of your families sit around talking, and really getting to know each other. This rehearsal dinner idea is a great way to just enjoy everyone together in a relaxed environment. Then, you can break out the video games or movies and enjoy the time you have together.

There are many rehearsal dinner ideas that you can use. Make sure that the choice you go with is something that is comfortable for the both of you. After all, you have a wedding in your near future, you shouldn’t have to be stressing out about the rehearsal dinner as well.

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Our rehearsal dinner was a lot of fun. My husband’s parents wanted it to be something nice since they were paying for it, and a few months before the wedding they came up to help us choose a location. We went from restaurant to restaurant, looking at their party rooms and asking about costs to rent the room and the cost of food for everyone in attendance until we finally settled on a location and put down a deposit on a room. Our final decision was a popular steakhouse that was only about twenty minutes away from our church and where everyone would be staying for the wedding. The room was really beautiful, it had large natural stone with giant fireplaces and paintings, very western theme. We put the deposit on the room, and then his parents left to go back home.

In the weeks leading up to the wedding, we called several times to make sure they still had us on the list for that night, and to verify the times that his mom and sisters could come in and decorate the meeting room for our rehearsal dinner. Calling several times was a great idea as we wanted to make sure they didn’t forget that we were coming. We chose a menu plan for the group which allowed everyone their choice of steaks and sides with salad and dessert, and we were ready to go.

As I mentioned before in my article, Rehearsal Dinner Invitations, I chose not to send out rehearsal dinner invitations, and we ended up having a large group of people at our rehearsal dinner. But then again, we had two pastors and their families, a piano player and her husband, the family doing the special music, and then all of our groomsmen and bridesmaids with their significant others. Not only that, but one of my bridesmaids had her family come in from another country to attend our wedding, and we invited them to the rehearsal dinner as well. We had quite a crowd.

My mother-in-law did an excellent job decorating for the rehearsal dinner, and everything was just beautiful. The rehearsal dinner tables were long rectangles, and she had covered them with white tablecloths and then added personalized candle holders along the tables with some sweet smelling candles that were peach colored, scattered confetti along the tables, and had greenery in a lot of different places as well. It really helped to transform the room into a perfect rehearsal dinner.

My fiance and I passed out the gifts that we had for our wedding party and our parents, all of which went over really well. Our families are very close even spending time together at holidays, and we had an excellent time at our rehearsal dinner. It was a great time to be able to sit back and relax and enjoy the entire family being together again, instead of stressing about the wedding. I’ve written this article basically to say, have fun at your rehearsal dinner, and don’t let stress ruin all of the fun you could be having on your wedding day. For more great ideas on rehearsal dinner options, check out my article on Rehearsal Dinner Ideas.

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