Sunday Wedding. When to do rehearsal?

[MonkeyPants]

Hello,

Question for you lovely ladies. My wedding is on a Sunday and I believe the venue has a wedding booked on Saturday so that I wouldn''t be able to hold my rehearsal on the day before. When should I hold the rehearsal? The morning of the wedding? If that''s the case, do I throw a rehearsal lunch? Is there enough time for that if the ceremony starts at 3pm? The other option could possibly be early Saturday morning before the Saturday wedding gets set up. Again, would I just have a rehearsal lunch? I wouldn''t want to have the rehearsal any earlier than Saturday because its somewhat of a "destination" location and out of town wedding party members will be arriving on Saturday.

what to do!?

 

[Octavia]

My wedding was on a Sunday, but we didn't do a rehearsal, so I'm not much help. But one of my friends had a morning rehearsal the day before her wedding, followed by a lunch, and it worked out fine. Don't stress too much about it -- for the most part, none of it is that necessary, anyway. I wouldn't do a lunch on the day of the wedding if you do have the rehearsal that morning, though...that would be way too much to deal with!!

 

[kstar512]

I was in the exact same situation as you. We were able to work it out so that we had the rehearsal on Saturday after scheduled weddings then from there had dinner. If that is not possible for you I would definitely do it early on Saturday and have a lunch. It doesn''t matter that it''s not dinner, no one will mind! Trust me, the last thing you want to do is add another thing to get done on your wedding day. That day will be busy enough!

 

[MonkeyPants]

Octavia and Kstar, my thoughts exactly. My mom kept saying, "what''s the big deal? You''re going to have to eat lunch on your wedding day anyway" She doesn''t understand that''s it''s another thing to have to coordinate...she also thinks getting dressed and having hair and makeup done will only take an hour...ha, i wish.

Thanks for the input!

 

[stephbolt]

My cousin had a Sunday wedding - they did a rehearsal on Friday afternoon and a separate rehearsal dinner on Saturday night. Since you don't want to break them up that way, You could break them up to Sat AM and Sat PM or Sat PM dinner, Sunday AM rehearsal.


I would avoid the "rehearsal lunch" on the day of the wedding, I think you are right that you will have too much other stuff to worry about to think about socializing at the lunch.

 

[Prana]

Hi Monkey Pants,

We are in the exact situation as you, our wedding is Saturday evening. Our venue is sort of non traditional, so having it the Friday evening before will not be possible if there is a wedding planned for that evening. We will be able to use the grounds if there isn''t a wedding planned that evening, but we will not know that until a couple of weeks before. Our two options were to do the rehearsal Friday afternoon, like 1100, but I wanted a rehearsal dinner, not lunch, and that''s a long gap in between.
What we might do is have our rehearsal at a different location. We have booked a local inne for the rehearsal dinner, and we might do a mock rehearsal on their lawn, and have sort of a diagram of the actual place so that people have something to go by. The manager of the mansion where our wedding is taking place told us that most people rehearse at a different location, and it has never been an issue. I plan on taking each member of the bridal party to our venue at some point so they have a general idea of where the real thing will be happening.

Hope you are able to come up with a plan!

 

[Winks_Elf]

Our wedding will be a 3 pm Sunday afternoon wedding also. I''m hoping to do the rehearsal on Friday evening or the night before. Half the wedding party is coming from out of town.

 

[taovandel]

We had our rehearsal at my house and had a big backyard picnic afterwards on Saturday...

 

[MonkeyPants]

Thanks Steph, the Sat PM dinner and Sunday AM rehearsal is a good idea. Thanks!

Girlface and Tao, I also like your ideas of holding the rehearsal off site. and a backyard bbq sounds so much more relaxing than a formal rehearsal dinner! I''m all for relaxing...

Winks, Friday night could be a good option if everyone''s in town by then (lots of people don''t want to miss work so they''re coming up Saturday). We''ll see. thanks you!