We booked out synagogue for our wedding in January 2011. I'm not entirely sure when my FMIL let them know that we planned on having our auf ruf the day before, but that was decided on a while ago. Yesterday, we had a meeting with our Rabbi to discuss our wedding. The calendar for the next fiscal year was just printed and distributed to the bosses at the shul. Well, the Sisterhood Shabbat is the same day as our auf ruf. If we weren't so active in the shul, it wouldn't be a big deal. We just go up, get blessed, read the blessing for the Torah, and sit back down. That wasn't exactly our plan. We wanted specific people to do p'zukei, most if not all of the Torah readings, and Haftorah. This includes me, my fiance, his mother, his aunt and or uncle, and other close family friends.
This won't happen if we have to share the date with the Sisterhood, since they do all the readings on their Shabbat.
We talked to the Executive Director, who said he'd bring it up at the meeting last night, but we haven't heard anything back. We're assuming they won't change their date. This means we're likely going to change the date of our auf ruf to the week before. Is that odd, having the auf ruf eight days before the wedding, instead of the Shabbat directly preceding it?
I'm not looking forward to the logistics of having two weekends in a row with important events. Some people will need to be put up (they're shomer), a lot of out of town guests won't be able to come, who knows which weekend the catered Shabbos dinner will be. Ugh. Sudden stress is bad.