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We are doing one. My sister didn't, though. And the musicians missed the right cues. lol. If you can save money by not having one, you should do it!
I would want to run through the ceremony with the officiant at least, but you're right, your friends don't NEED to practice walking.
We are having a friend officiate, so we do need to rehearse. If you have an experienced officiant who knows what he/she is doing, I think it's ok to skip the full rehearsal.
I'm not sure if I'm going to do one or not! I've looked in to it and it will be about $1500 (and that's conservative). I do want to have a rehearsal but hten will feel guilty about not feeding my guest after. Is anyone just doing the rehearsal with no dinner?
@His Barista - Oh no! Well, we have the DJ so hopefully he'll be able to handle the music cues. There are no songs during the ceremony, so again if he can't figure out where the beginning and the end are, he's FIRED.
We did not have one.
We had a meeting with our coordinator, but not with the officiant. She explained the big picture of the ceremony but we had no idea about the details - just the order of things, vows and readings wise.
Not knowing was exciting for us, our wedding ceremony was a completely new experience; I think it's better that way. It was for us, anyway.
@egb we've met with our officiant twice and she's helping me with the vows. We are very clear on the order of the ceremony, but the specifics of what she's going to say are going to be a surprise. I think she's going to tell the story of how we met - I'm pretty excited about it. She's supposed to be one of the best around.
We're not. Actually we really can't - we are having a Saturday night wedding and most rabbis won't do rehearsals on Friday nights. We could theoretically ask everyone to come in on Thursday to do it, but I just don't think its worth it. We'll run through the ceremony with both the rabbi and the DJ, and I think everyone else can figure it out!
@KIKI82: I think it's polite to feed people if you ask them to come to a rehearsal. However, it doesn't have to cost that much! We were just going to have pizza delivered to our place and have people over before FMIL offered to pay for a full dinner,
Oor JP said it really wasn't necessary for our informal outdoor ceremony. We are having people help us decorate the day before, but its really informal and we are just going to get everyone some pizza to say thanks :) No formal rehearsal dinner though, as there is no rehearsal.
We're not doing one. I think we're going to try to do a quick run through the day of, right before the actual ceremony. But other than that, we're winging it!
I was informed by FI that we aren't doing one haha, but I don't care. It'll work out just fine no matter what.
I would really like to do one because "ceremonies" aren't really the thing in my family. I'm the first to do one. And FI will be the first in his family as well, both his siblings had a "casual" church one. So no one will really know what's going on and we're going uber cheap on officiant. So there won't be many meetings beforehand.
But our venue doesn't typically allow a day before rehearsal so if I can't convince them to let us do it for free the day before it'll be a super quick run through the day of.
I am waaaaay too particular not to have one. I want everything to be perfectly timed, so we are having one.. plus it's an excuse to have dinner and relax the night before!
I have too many children in my wedding to not hahve a rehearsal (4 of them) and they are all from out of town, so I want them to have a chance to get comfortable in the church before the big day!! Plus, like Amanda.lynn I'm a bit of a control freak, and would probably be worrying about it if we didn't have one. i wont be reciting any words the night of the rehearsal though... and no kiss either! I want to save those for the wedding day!
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I figure if my idiot friends can't walk 30 paces in a line without getting lost, then they don't deserve to be in the wedding party and we shall cast them out before the ceremony.
Seriously though, my officiant says it's really not necessary as they won't have to do anything except walk and stand anyway. And it was just one more expense for us and for them that we didn't want to deal with.
Anyone else not having a rehearsal?