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Our officiant suggested blocking off 1 to 1.5 hours for the actual rehearsal. Our rehearsal dinner restaurant is down the street, so we are having rehearsal at 4:30, dinner at 6.
We scheduled our rehearsal for an hour, although I don't know if it's going to take that long. We're going to just start dinner immediately following, although we're having the dinner at my sister's house not a restaurant, so the timing is a little more flexible.
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Yeah, I have mostly heard 1-2 hours also.
The other thing is even though the rehearsal may only run 1 hour you might need some extra time for last minute stuff with the venues?
Our rehearsal dinner is at 7pm and its about a 30 min drive from the site. So we are scheduling our rehearsal to start at 5pm (although thats what we are telling people...our families are always late, we plan on starting at 5:30pm). Our rehearsal is planned for 1 hour, but we are not having a church wedding or anything too elborate.
Our wedding will be outdoors at the beach of a park that closes to the public at sunset. We'll be fine for the wedding, since it's at sunset. I'm sure that there will likely be a good number of people still there, though, when we have the rehearsal... probably camped out on our wedding site!
I was thinking of allowing about 1½ hours. We're having eight children in our wedding party (our "petit parade"!), so I'm counting on needing a few more practice runs than most.
This is a silly question, but do you actually rehearse your vows, too? How about the music? (There's so much I have yet to learn in the next 44 days! LOL)
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Even though our wedding will only be about 30 minutes, I blocked 1.5 hours so that we can work out the bugs.
When I run a rehearsal, I don't read the "real" vows - I give my couples fake vows to use, so they can practice taking the card from me, and reading it. If we do repeat after me vows, or "I do!" vows, I'll read the last line, and have the couples say "I do!" or repeat that back to me.
Rehearsals ALWAYS take about three times as long as a wedding ceremony is planned to be - and most of that is just lining people up :)
If your DJ or whoever is doing your music can be there - that's awesome - but it's not neccesary - but if your officiant / DOC / very nice friend helping you out can talk to the music people and just let them know what is going on before the ceremony - it's a huge help.
We're not having attendants, so I don't think we'll have one. Another issue is that our venue is a restaurant, so they're alway open. I might go up there a couple of times and practice walking down the stairs to the ceremony site. Depending on the size of your wedding party, I would plan on 1-1.5 hours, leaning towards 1 unless you have a HUGE wedding party.
Our pastor told us to plan on about one hour, so we are having the rehearsal at 6:30 and the dinner following at 8 (about a 15 minute drive away).
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I'm trying to figure out a timeline for the day before my wedding. FMIL is planning the rehearsal dinner for 6:30pm at a restaurant near our wedding site (<10 minute drive). FI thinks that we should schedule the rehearsal itself for 4:00pm. I'm wondering if that's not too much time and would create too long of a gap between the rehearsal and dinner.
How much time did/will you block out for your rehearsal? Did/will your rehearsal dinner immediately follow?
Thanks so much!