Rehearsal dinner invitations
A small dinner for the people closest to the couple, which is a completely different feeling from the wedding itself.
$65
Your details set by hand, usually back the same day. $145 to rebuild it in your own colours.
The rehearsal dinner is the intimate one. Twenty to forty people, usually family and the wedding party, and it is often the evening everyone actually remembers because nobody is managing two hundred guests yet.
The invitation should reflect that. Where the wedding invitation is formal and does a lot of work, this one can be warmer and more personal. It often goes out from the hosts rather than the couple, traditionally the groom's family, though that convention is loose now and I would not assume it.
The design usually sits alongside the wedding stationery rather than matching it exactly. Same palette, quieter treatment. Guests receiving both should feel the relationship without thinking they got two copies of the same card.
What changes for this one
Warmer and less formal than the wedding invitation, sharing its palette. Who is hosting should be clear, since it is often not the couple. Dress code is worth stating because guests genuinely cannot guess.
When to send
Four to six weeks, and send it separately from the wedding invitation rather than tucked inside, or half your guests will never notice it.
Colours that work
Pull the wedding palette forward at a lower intensity. Warmer, softer, less formal.
Questions people ask about rehearsal dinner invitations
Should it match the wedding invitation?
Share the palette, soften the treatment. It should feel like the same family of stationery at a lower volume, because the evening itself is smaller and warmer than the wedding.
Can we include it with the wedding invitation?
You can, and it saves postage, but it goes to a different and much smaller list so it needs to be visibly separate inside the envelope. Sent on its own it is far less likely to be missed.
Who is it from?
Traditionally the groom's family hosts, but that convention has loosened and plenty of couples host their own. Whoever it is should be named on the card, because guests use that to work out how formal the evening is.
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How to have this made
Custom invitation design
Designed from nothing for one event. No template underneath.
From $285
Day-of event paper
Menus, place cards, table numbers, programs and signage.
From $95
Save the date design
The first thing anyone sees. Sets the tone for everything after.
From $185
Start with a First Look
$45 for one finished concept designed for your event, back in three days. It comes off whatever you book, and if you do not love it you keep the file and owe nothing.