For those of you having your ceremony at your hall

Jweb17 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 11:52 AM

For those of you having your ceremony at your hall

Are you having a RD (considering the real rehearsal will be the morning of the wedding)? And if you are, are you still calling it a 'RD' on the invitation you send out?

TIA!

Tracy&Brian Posted: Jun 30, 2006 11:54 AM

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NO we are not bothering. Most of our bridal party has participated in other weddings. Even if they havent, all they have to do is smile and walk slowly. I dont get why people need rehearsals. FH family hasnt offered to pay for a rehersal dinner, so we figured why bother?

BelMal Posted: Jun 30, 2006 11:55 AM

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I am not going to having a RD. There is so much for me to do that it didn't seem worthwhile when I can't really have a rehearsal a day or so before anyway.

kittythestray Posted: Jun 30, 2006 11:56 AM

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I wasn't going to

plainview Posted: Jun 30, 2006 11:58 AM

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We are having a fake rehearsal dinner in that we just recently got a house so we are going to have just our bridal party and their significant others to our house for dinner.
I am getting married on a Sunday and we will have them over Friday night. That way we can give them their gifts.
Small BP - only 3 on each side.

sarahbelle Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:09 PM

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I had one - we just called it a celebratory dinner. It was a good way for everyone to meet before the wedding. My family is OOT and this was the first time they met my ILs. We had dinner with about 30 people at Nick DiAngelo's.

nov06 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:09 PM

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We are doing a quick 'rehearsal' about 15 minutes before the ceremony and doing a dinner a week before It's still nice to get everyone together to have some fun and relax and give everyone their gifts and thank them.

Mitabtrfly Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:13 PM

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We are having a rehearsal..and afterwards having food..but not anything special. As it is, it will more than likely be in the evening...and we don't want it to be too long..because they next day..have to be up early :)

CLMon7906 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:15 PM

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yes and yes.

MrsH1156 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:18 PM

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We're not only because we aren't going to have time in the few days leading up to the wedding.

soon2bcopswife Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:20 PM

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We had our rehearsal at the hall in the actual ceremony room. The only time I wanted DH to see me walk down the aisle that day was when it was the real thing. We had our rehearsal on Tuesday and the wedding on Friday.

A bit of advice, try and do your rehearsal any time but the day before. That way you have the night before to yourself.

cindyandkevin Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:23 PM

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We had a rehearsal at the hall the night before and then we had a casual dinner at my mom's. We didn't call it a RD tho, we just said 'join us for dinner and drinks!'

ETS: We also used it as a time to relax and let everyone get to know each other. Plus we thanked our family and BP and gave them their gifts.

cjb88 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:32 PM

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this is what we sent out:

bride2b92006 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 12:33 PM

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we are doing a pre-wedding celebration dinner.

petunia77 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 01:09 PM

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we are having a rehearsal and a bbq party the night before. we did not call it an RD.

LaurenluvsTJ Posted: Jun 30, 2006 01:23 PM

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We had one. We called it a pre-wedding dinner. We didn't send any invitiations.

ChrisnAmy Posted: Jun 30, 2006 01:26 PM

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We are going to have 'The Rehearsal Dinner' a couple of days before the Wedding....So That our Family's will meet for the first time. My FH Family's lives in Washington state. Yes, I'm very lucky.....my In-Laws live across the Country!!!!! hahaha

franksgirl323 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 01:36 PM

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we were going to...but after reading enuff posts here...we are gonna do a 'run-thru' a 1/2 hour before the real ceremony.

Jweb17 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 01:38 PM

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Thank you girls so much for your great advice!

EMES2006 Posted: Jun 30, 2006 02:42 PM

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We did not have a rehearsal, nor did we have a rehearsal dinner.

Small bridal party - best man and MOH. We all knew what we had to do. No need for a rehearsal.

And or wedding was on a Friday night. Too complicated to have a rehearsal dinner anyway since my nieces and nephews were in school and couldn't be out late on a school night.