Rehearsal Dinner - Are invitations really Necessary?

I didn’t do an invitation per say, but I did include a details card in with the invitations of those that would be attending. It included location date and time, but did not request an RSVP

Honestly I never thought it was needed if it’s just your wedding party and immediate family. I was in a friends wedding last year and she did invites for the dinner and it was the first time I’ve seen it honestly. I think it’s fine if you do but not a necessity

A formal invitation isn't always necessary, but I would at least send them the details of the dinner somehow, even if it's just an email or group chat.

I plan on making my own rehearsal dinner invite on canva and printing them cheap. We are inviting the wedding party, immediate family and anyone who is being walked down. I plan on sending our invites due to the fact that I want it to be clear what time everything is happening. I feel like some of the wedding party could try to flake on the day before so I just want to make it very clear

I don't think a formal paper invitation or anything like that is needed. I would just keep those who you would like there updated on what the details are for the dinner.

I've never gotten an invitation to a rehearsal dinner. We didn't send invitations either. We just told people the details.

I just sent and invite with all of the details to my family since we only had a BM and MOH. It was a small group.

We did evites through minted. They were super cute and we could collect RSVPs that way! My husband and I attend a lot of out of town weddings, so it’s much more helpful and considerate of our time if we know in advance if/when there will be a rehearsal and rehearsal dinner and if we’re both invited or not. It doesn’t have to be a formal paper invite or evite, but some kind of communication a couple weeks before is great.

We just gave word of mouth invites to everybody.

Nope I just sent an email

I’ve never been formally invited to a rehearsal dinner, just Facebook messaged, texted, or told, which I think works perfectly well. I don’t think you need to spend money on invitations for the rehearsal dinner.

We sent one that matched our invitation suite and just included it with our invitations for the guests that were invited to the rehearsal dinner. It cost us around $20 for 20ish of them.

Word of mouth is fine. But if you want to ensure everyone has all of the same details, then email should work as well.

I think as long as you can spread all the necessary details to those invited, you don't need physical invitations. I took advantage of a Shutterfly offer of 10 free cards (we just paid shipping), and that was enough to cover our families and wedding party, so we're sending cards.

No, especially if it's small, you can just tell people when you let them know the time and place for the rehearsal.

I'm not doing invitations - just word of mouth. It's an easy way to save money by not doing formal invites for Rehearsal Dinner.

I used evite for it just because it's nicer to have all the info in one spot for them to refer to. I put the address of the rehearsal site and rehearsal dinner.

We included rehearsal dinner invites in our invitations, but we had 70 people at our rehearsal dinner! I think texting is fine if it's a smaller group.

Thanks everyone. I think I'll do an Evite.

We didn't do invites. It's wedding party, our parents, and SO's. That's it. Word of mouth to the bridal party and that their SO's are invited to is the only method we are using.