My FMIL has been bothering FI for a while now. Since they have helped pay for a majority of the actual wedding, they want my family (particularly my dad) to pay for the rehearsal dinner.
I stood my ground for awhile and told them that if my parents could do it, then they would have offered. We knew coming into planning my family was not going to be able to help financially. I was lucky that my dad was able to purchase my dress (Yay for sales) Eventually I gave in, and mentioned to my dad what we were planning for our rehearsal dinner and if there was ANYTHING he could contribute, no matter how big or small. He said he'd be able to put forth like $50.
When I mentioned this to FMIL, she freaked! She told me to tell him not to even bother. Which is fine with me, I didn't want to ask in the 1st place. But I won't be as snarky as she was of course.
But now we need to think of cheap alternatives that FI and I can pay for ourselves. Normally I would love to have everybody at our house and have a cook out or order 2 of the huge 42" pizzas from Big Lou's. However, the wedding is 2 hours OOT and we are all driving up the day of the rehearsal and meeting all our OOT wedding party there. Then we are staying the night.