rehearsal dinner
noun
US
: a formal meal after a wedding rehearsal for the people participating in a wedding ceremony
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Her day, which will end with the rehearsal dinner, gets off to a bad start when her boss calls her into her office.
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Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025
But her dad’s cousin wouldn’t quit and made one more attempt to invite herself to the wedding on the day of the rehearsal dinner.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
It is usually hosted ahead of the wedding ceremony and can often be paired with a rehearsal dinner.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
At the rehearsal dinner, while getting ready, and during the post-wedding brunch, she was treated as an afterthought.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025
But her dad’s cousin wouldn’t quit and made one more attempt to invite herself to the wedding on the day of the rehearsal dinner.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
It is usually hosted ahead of the wedding ceremony and can often be paired with a rehearsal dinner.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
At the rehearsal dinner, while getting ready, and during the post-wedding brunch, she was treated as an afterthought.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rehearsal dinner
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“Rehearsal dinner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rehearsal%20dinner. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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