How formal do rehearsal dinner invitations need to be?
Rehearsal dinner invitations do not need to match the formality of the main wedding invitations, and digital formats or simple emails are completely acceptable. The difficulty lies in navigating the lack of clear etiquette around timing and presentation, which often leaves couples unsure whether they can deviate from paper wedding stationery.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1sending a digital graphic via text message
- 2including an insert card with the traditional wedding invitations
- 3sending an email invitation
- 4relying on word of mouth or text
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Planning our rehearsal dinner and not sure how formal the invitations need to be compared to the wedding invitations.”source ↗
“Also wondering about timing and whether digital is appropriate for a rehearsal dinner even if the wedding invitations were paper”source ↗
“We just sent an email and asked people to let us know if they'd be there and that seemed to work just fine?”source ↗
Where this came up
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