My question is quite a read so I thank anyone who takes the time to read and respond in advance.
A little bit about our wedding. We are a military couple getting married in the city that we live in, meaning it is pretty much a destination wedding for everyone but us. We chose to do it this way for many reasons, but we are doing our best to be as accommodating as we can be. That being said...
The future hubby and I decided that we wanted to have an informal rehearsal dinner (buffet, casual music, not super dressy, almost like a bbq but at a beachy restaurant) for only those directly involved in the wedding. We are not sit down, formal party type of people.
Since it is a destination type wedding, and there are a lot of people traveling into town, we thought it was a great idea to invite everybody in town for the wedding after the "dinner" part to come down and have a cocktail with us to meet and mingle with everybody. We will be handing out drink tickets to everyone who wants to come down, so at least their first drink or two is covered.
My future in-laws have been generous enough to take care of the rehearsal dinner, which we have been very appreciative of. We talked over what we hoped to have, saw a few venues with them and they agreed that what we wanted would be fine.
Now that our website and save the dates are out, my MIL is losing her mind over the wording that I used saying that she doesnt want to confuse people and its not formal and I can't use the words that I used to describe the rehearsal. She has recruited family members to call and casually mention that the website is "confusing" (by the way I have analytics on the site and it gets no more than one hit a day) I think that she is more worried about what her friends and family think about the party that she is paying for rather than take into account all of the work that I've done day after day.
SOOOO after all of that. How can I word the description of the "Rehearsal Party" to please her so that she doesn't find the description confusing or misleading and so that I can get on with the rest of my wedding planning and stop losing sleep over this.
Here is what I have so far: (rough draft)
"Rehearsal Party
We are having a two part Rehearsal Party!
Between the hours of 4-6 we are having an intimate Reharsal
party with only those closely involved in the wedding.
At 6:00, we invite all guests not attending the Rehearsal
Party to come down to the venue to mix and mingle with JJ, SS &
their guests.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call J or S!
Again, THANK YOU for taking the time to read this...... My bridesmaids and friends are sick of hearing about it and I know you girls will have some wonderful advice!
-S