I posted a version of this on the November 2010 board just to see if there were any other November 26 brides......
So I'm getting married the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday)..Yay! However, I don't feel comfortable having the rehearsal and a dinner the day before (Thanksgiving) because some of my BP are local and have families in town that they will want to spend their day with.
Of course I could have it on Wednesday, but some of the BP won't be in town yet. On top of that, I'm trying to work out a way to have a Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday for our families (all of our families will be in from OOT) so instead of trying to worry about THREE dinners (rehearsal, Thanksgiving AND the wedding...FI and I are paying for everything ourselves BTW), we decided to have our rehearsal Friday morning so we eliminate the expense of one dinner.
My question is, what are your recommendations for Thanksgiving dinner locations? FI and I will probably be paying for most of this too....which is fine....I just don't want to break the bank with this, you know? Our apartment isn't really an option because it's a little small and really, do I want to have a large dinner at my place the day before my wedding? Probably not. Our complex doesn't have a community room we can rent out that has enough room for seating either.
As I said, none of my family lives in Chicago and I don't feel comfortable imposing on my friends. I'm looking at 20 - 30 OOT family members.
Thank you in advance!