wedding rehearsal
noun
: an event at which the people involved in a wedding ceremony practice what will be done at the ceremony
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The celebration continued at the wedding rehearsal.
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 22 May 2025
Don’t waste money splurging on something for a wedding rehearsal dinner that’ll only end up at the back of your closet, never to be seen again.
—Camille Freestone, Glamour, 13 May 2025
If gifts are opened at the event, a common tradition in the United States is for the maid of honor to save all the ribbons from the gifts and transform them into a faux bouquet for the bride to carry down the aisle during the wedding rehearsal.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025
What started as preparations for a wedding rehearsal in Grassy Creek, North Carolina, last Friday quickly turned into a water rescue when Eddie Hunnell, the father of the groom, heard a woman had become trapped in her home near the River House Inn.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Back on January 31, 1992, the three soldiers, then in their early twenties, were together at a wedding rehearsal the day before Jones was set to get married.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
The morning after an obscenely over-the-top wedding rehearsal dinner on Nantucket, a member of the wedding party washes up dead on a beach near the groom-to-be’s sprawling family mansion.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
In one heartfelt Instagram post, the libertarian commentator shared that her dad’s girlfriend gave her a sentimental gift after the wedding rehearsal.
—Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
Robert De Niro enjoyed himself at Jennifer Lawrence’s wedding rehearsal dinner—even though the actress may think otherwise.
—Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 22 May 2025
Don’t waste money splurging on something for a wedding rehearsal dinner that’ll only end up at the back of your closet, never to be seen again.
—Camille Freestone, Glamour, 13 May 2025
If gifts are opened at the event, a common tradition in the United States is for the maid of honor to save all the ribbons from the gifts and transform them into a faux bouquet for the bride to carry down the aisle during the wedding rehearsal.
—Shelby Wax, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2025
What started as preparations for a wedding rehearsal in Grassy Creek, North Carolina, last Friday quickly turned into a water rescue when Eddie Hunnell, the father of the groom, heard a woman had become trapped in her home near the River House Inn.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Back on January 31, 1992, the three soldiers, then in their early twenties, were together at a wedding rehearsal the day before Jones was set to get married.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
The morning after an obscenely over-the-top wedding rehearsal dinner on Nantucket, a member of the wedding party washes up dead on a beach near the groom-to-be’s sprawling family mansion.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024
In one heartfelt Instagram post, the libertarian commentator shared that her dad’s girlfriend gave her a sentimental gift after the wedding rehearsal.
—Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
Robert De Niro enjoyed himself at Jennifer Lawrence’s wedding rehearsal dinner—even though the actress may think otherwise.
—Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
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“Wedding rehearsal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wedding%20rehearsal. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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