Are you inviting signifiacant others..

SUNSHINE24 Posted: May 17, 2005 02:32 PM

Are you inviting signifiacant others..

to the rehearsal dinner? I thought we were just going to to the wedding party and OOT guests. I was reading up on proper ettiquite and it says to invites spouses of the wedding party. Does that mean we have to invite fiances of the wedding party too?
One more thing.. DO we mail the priest and his wife an invitation to the rehearsal dinner?

diamondgrlie Posted: May 17, 2005 02:33 PM

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No, we are keeping it for the people who are involved with the ceremony only.

Bunnymonkey Posted: May 17, 2005 02:37 PM

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People involved in the ceremony only. I think it is a little rude, but I had no choice. I explained it personally to all of them, and they were fine with it. Our RD is short, and all the SO's will come meet us at the bar when it is over!

SeptWed Posted: May 17, 2005 02:38 PM

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We invited everyone with their spouse/fiances/boyfriends/girlfriends. We did not invite single wedding party members with guests.

When i was dating DH and engaged to him i was in wedding parties as well and he came with me to both rehearsal dinners.

jersee3380 Posted: May 17, 2005 02:38 PM

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Posted by Bunnymonkey

People involved in the ceremony only. I think it is a little rude, but I had no choice. I explained it personally to all of them, and they were fine with it. Our RD is short, and all the SO's will come meet us at the bar when it is over!

great idea ... i was just thinking of this, thanks for posting!!!

VS11 Posted: May 17, 2005 03:08 PM

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We are inviting our BP with there spouse, fiance,boyfriend/girlfriend.

Since we are having a very big BP and we are already looking at around 60-65 people at the RD, we arent inviting the singles with guests..

AJsMommy122 Posted: May 17, 2005 03:51 PM

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No the only exception we made was for my dh's sister. She is engaged and her fiance was our reader and wanted to practice the reading at the church that night.
Everyone in our bridal party was dating someone at the time and it would have doubled our RD bill

WedHead Posted: May 17, 2005 03:56 PM

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We are inviting everyone with guest - whether it be girlfriend/boyfriend, date, or spouse. No one in our bridal party will bring someone just for the hell of it, so I'm just putting '& guest' and letting them make the call. Only about 3 out of our bridal party are not 'attached', so I won't be concerned if they bring dates.

jeanla4c Posted: May 17, 2005 03:59 PM

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Posted by WedHead

We are inviting everyone with guest - whether it be girlfriend/boyfriend, date, or spouse. No one in our bridal party will bring someone just for the hell of it, so I'm just putting '& guest' and letting them make the call. Only about 3 out of our bridal party are not 'attached', so I won't be concerned if they bring dates.

Exactly what we are doing....

csorisi Posted: May 17, 2005 06:29 PM

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Posted by jeanla4c

Posted by WedHead

We are inviting everyone with guest - whether it be girlfriend/boyfriend, date, or spouse. No one in our bridal party will bring someone just for the hell of it, so I'm just putting '& guest' and letting them make the call. Only about 3 out of our bridal party are not 'attached', so I won't be concerned if they bring dates.

Exactly what we are doing....

We are doing the same!

july06bride Posted: May 17, 2005 06:39 PM

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all of groomsman most likely will not be invited with guests therefore (they all will be OOT people ) and they will go to RD alone-

my bridesMAN- is from LI and wont be invited with his gf

My bridesmaid from Out of state will be invited with her BF

MY MOH will be married at that point- she is an out of stater too and will be invited with husband

My other BM is from LI and her SO will not be invited

azoodie Posted: May 17, 2005 06:51 PM

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we are inviting everyone with their other halves

ssdbk Posted: May 17, 2005 07:07 PM

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I was not invited to a RD with FH and I was offended. I got over it and I understand now but my first reaction was to be really offended. There were no exceptions made and I would have been really mad if someone else was invited with their SO.

takeoutcook Posted: May 17, 2005 07:24 PM

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everyone in our bridal party is either married, engaged or in a very serious relationship, so everyone is invited with their significant other.

melissaandsean Posted: May 17, 2005 07:29 PM

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Posted by azoodie

we are inviting everyone with their other halves

same here

cresthollowbride Posted: May 17, 2005 07:39 PM

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nope, we are strictly keeping it to anyone in the bridal party or readers. we spoke to all the significant others and quite frankly noone even cared that they werent invited.

ML110 Posted: May 17, 2005 09:02 PM

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we have a pretty small bridal party, so we're letting the 'attached' people bring their significant others... even with doing that, we only have 25 people invited... i guess it depends on how many people you have, and how many you can afford to invite....

LO13LO13 Posted: May 17, 2005 11:43 PM

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Posted by SeptWed

We invited everyone with their spouse/fiances/boyfriends/girlfriends. We did not invite single wedding party members with guests.

When i was dating DH and engaged to him i was in wedding parties as well and he came with me to both rehearsal dinners.

i agree, i would be insulted if FH was in a wedding and i was his fiance and he wasnt allowed to bring me

italia6973 Posted: May 17, 2005 11:53 PM

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Posted by SeptWed

We invited everyone with their spouse/fiances/boyfriends/girlfriends. We did not invite single wedding party members with guests.

We're doing the same thing.