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Rehearsal and Dinner

Do you have any thoughts or advice on when to schedule the rehearsal and dinner? Our wedding is on a Saturday afternoon. We can do the rehearsal on either Thursday or Friday. There are obvious pros/cons to each. On Friday I'll probably have a million other things to do. On Thursday it will be hard to get those that live a couple hours away to drive up here just for one night.

Re: Rehearsal and Dinner

  • edited December 2011
    We're having ours on Thursday evening.  Being that it is boat show weekend in Annapolis the same weekend, I didn't want to ask people to drive down there in rush hour and boat show traffic on a Friday.  There might be two people from the wedding party that won't be able to make it since they're coming in from NY, but they've walked down aisles before - no worries.  They'll definitely be missed, but they'll be there on Saturday, that's all that matters.
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  • edited December 2011
    We are having ours on Thursday and our wedding is Saturday. Since the wedding site is in Towson and the dinner site is in Baltimore we figured traffic would be a bit better on a Thursday. Our friends are also coming in on Thursday so we wanted to be able to have some time to spend with them outside of wedding things.
  • edited December 2011
    we are doing thursday too, just seems like we would all be able to enjoy ourselves better then if it were the NIGHT before a day wedding.
  • edited December 2011
    Ours is the Friday night before our Saturday day wedding. Most of the guests are out of town, and coming up that Friday, including FILs, who are footing the bill.
  • 2have2hold2have2hold member
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    edited December 2011
    we're having ours on the Friday before. Mostly because almost everyone in the wedding party is coming in from out of town and like you said, if were to do it on the Thursday, it'll be a pain for them to drive in for just one night (or taking an extra day off from work) so it worked out better to have the rehearsal and dinner on Friday.
  • edited December 2011
    Our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner are the day before our wedding.  Like several pp, a lot of people will be coming from out of town.  I don't want them to have to miss TOO much work.  :)
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  • ajerome21ajerome21 member
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    edited December 2011
    Having it on Thursday will probably be better for you.  Having it on Friday will def. be better for your out of town wedding party.  So it really comes down to who you want to please - you or them? lol. 
  • MrsNDMMrsNDM member
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    edited December 2011
    I did mine Friday, everyone was staying over the bay bridge and I didn't want people to have to drive there and back just for the rehearsal or take off all of Friday.
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