Silly me just assumed, and I know I should never assume, that I would have my rehearsal on the Friday nigt before my wedding...
Last night I was reading a post on another board and realized that I may not be so lucky...then I got to thinking that wait, they hold Friday weddings at my venue, so there is a good chance it will be in use the night before....
I emailed my contact and sure enough there is a wedding there. She said that unless its a late Friday wedding we would have to do Thursday night, and she can't let me know until 2 months before (which is when our final information regarding times and such is due)...which I wouldn't care about except that all of FI's family and groomsman are from out of state, over 2 hours away and his son (the biggest reason we're nervous) will be flying in with his mother on Thursday night for our rehearsal on Friday. We really don't want to ask FI's ex wife to take additional time off to bring him here, and there's a good chance with her new job she won't be able to. He will be 3 1/2 then and we are so afraid that if he doesn't practice and get a lilttle comfortable that he will never go up the aisle.
I emailed her back seeing if we could do it early Friday, like late morning, early afternoon...which would still be a pain for his groomsman and family, but at least its the same number of nights in the hotel....and I figured we'd just have a small get together at our house and still have our Rehearsal dinner that night...
I know this whole situation is my fault because I never really looked into it before today (although glad I thought of it today and not in August after hotels, flights, and dinner had been booked) and we absolutely love our venue and wouldn't change it for anything....I'm just frustrated. I don't want to put his friends and family out and we're just really concerned about how his son will do if he misses rehearsal....
Has anyone else run into any similar problems with having the rehearsal on Thursday and having alot of out of town people who need to attend? Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks is advance!
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