In this paper a novel method known as Coupled Displacement Field Method was proposed to evaluate the large amplitude free vibration behavior of the moderately thick rectangular plates with simply supported boundary conditions. Here a single term trigonometric admissible displacement field was assumed for one of the variables, say the total rotations (in both , directions). With the help of the coupling equations, the spatial variation for the lateral displacement field is derived in terms of the total rotations, where the two independent variables problem becomes one. The coupled displacement field method makes use of the energy formulation which contains half the number of unknown independent coefficients, in the case of a rectangular plate, when compared to the conventional Rayleigh-Ritz method. Closed form expressions for the linear and nonlinear fundamental frequency parameters for the all edges simply supported moderately thick rectangular plates are derived. The numerical results obtained from the present formulation are validated with those obtained from the existing literature for the given moderately thick plates.