Hi Ladies, My FH & I are jewish and while chatting about the wedding and the venue we just booked yesterday with his mother she said that Jewish ppl don't have rehearsals or rehearsal dinners??? Is that true? I've never heard of that before. Of course, my family converted to judaism when I was 2 and although I've been raised jewish my whole life except for my mom, brother and I the rest of my family is Catholic on both sides so I don't have any jewish relatives to ask. Ladies, can you help?
soontoobemrsk
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Traditionally, there is no rehearsal dinner or rehearsal. But I am doing on bc I feel more comfortable going over everything before the day of. Do what you want!
Jennmolloy
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my FH is Jewish and I am not. He told me that traditionaly there is no Rehearsal dinner. But I say if you want one have one.
Traditionally Jews do not have rehearsal dinners, but I don't think there's anything wrong with having one if you want! We did a 2 minute run through right before our ceremony and it worked out fine.
Almostawife
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no rehearsal dinner. Sometimes if there will be a dinner the night before if you have a lot of out of town guests to invite them. but never heard of a rehearsal dinner. The rehearsal takes place right before ceremony. no need to rehearse its pretty simple the bridal attendant will tell you what to do.
jennarose023
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it's not traditional but nowadays it more of a thank you to your bridal party for all of their help so i think it's a great thing to do at least the dinner
missliss
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It's not traditional per se...but I had one. Do whatever you want, nothing is set in stone.
SB7308
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Its not traditional but you can do whatever you want!! We didnt have a dinner but we did take the BP out for dessert the night before to give out the gifts.
MikeandJess
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she's right. The reason for the rehearsal dinner is because catholic people will rehearse at the church. Nowadays, more people are married in RH's so even if there is no rehearsal, catholics still have a rehearsal dinner because it is customary. I think it's pretty recent that jewish people picked up on having 'rehearsal dinners' but it's typically just a dinner the night before, or a few days before. We had a 'pre-wedding luncheon'
debzy
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Traditionally, there is not RH. Most Jews get married on Sundays and you cannot hold a rehearsal in the temple during Shabbat, so you cannot have a rehearsal. Most rehearals (or a quick walk-through) is after pics and prior to the actual ceremony on the day of.
You can, however, host a dinner for your out of town guests and bridal party the night before the wedding. A lot of Jews do that!
Do whatever is right for you and you FH.
jessnstu08
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I had one, but it was more to thank my BP and my OOT guests and we did go over a few things before the wedding then the traditional rehersal . Mine was friday night and I got married on a Saturday night
BeccaJo
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We had a Rehearsal Dinner, I think its a personal choice. We wanted a way to kick off the wedding weekend and to welcome guests who were travelling from out of the town. I'm really glad we did it b/c it gave me a chance to talk to people when I didn't really have time to during the reception. I also felt it relaxed us before the big day and got us used to the idea being the hosts.
