I'm having a bit of an issue with finding a place that is reasonably priced for our rehearsal dinner. Reserving an entire room for about 25-30 dinner guests, is between $600-$1600. I figured it would cost an actual $300 in food for 25 guests. We are paying for the wedding ceremony/reception and rehearsal dinner ourselves.
We have a lot of out of town guests who will be taking off, flying, getting a hotel, and both FI and I think it would be nice if they had the rehearsal dinner to not pay for dinner friday and the wedding on saturday for an additional food expense and say thank you!
I guess my question is, is it okay to not reserve an entire room and just have it sectioned off for our dinner, but other dinees be in sight of us, or sharing the space? or is that tacky to do, with speeches and such? Im sure that we can figure out the additional finances since we are so far out, but i don't mind saving a few hundred dollars if it isn't tacky!!