Do we need a rehearsal dinner?

#1 Taciab

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Posted 13 April 2025 - 06:37 AM

Hi everybody! My fiancé and I will get married sometime in 2011. I am from Brazil, and will have the wedding after my visa is approved. I am from Brazil and I moving to the US, and we have a small budget for our wedding since I am a student. Is it bad if we don’t have a rehearsal dinner? I don’t know if I really want this, and plus our budget is small, and I don’t really know how much it would cost. I won’t have a bridal shower or anything like that since I don’t have any friends in the US, and I wouldn’t be able to that in Brazil, because I wouldn’t be able to carry all the presents. Only my dad, mom and 2 sisters will be there from my side. My fiancé will invite around 40 people, so there will be less than 50 people on there.

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#2 Nancy Tucker

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Posted 13 April 2025 - 11:30 AM

The rehearsal dinner is optional but has become a tradition. Normally the groom's family provides the rehearsal dinner. If that is not an option, consider a small dinner at a local restaurant for only the attendants at the wedding and the parents; or you could do a back yard cookout if that would work. It does not have to be anything elaborate.