Rehearsal dinners

Well, we are having a little dilemma about the rehearsal dinner as well. we already boooked it, its going to be at Capt Bills in Bay shore. I want to invite bridal party grandparents and aunts and uncles. My FIs parents want like ther out of town friends to come and far cousins etc. This would bring it to like 60 people at least. the room only hold 50, but I think that is too much. we will invite bridal party and their guests b/c all of them are coming from MA and RI. By the spring I hope to say sorry only family and the party are invited.

Thanks for writing. I think we are having a lighting assistant. I'll have to check. Thank you for the tip.

I did not discuss the 60 day clause with them because I thought it was sufficient. I have never had any problems with them and they always seem to work with me when I need something so I would think they'd understand your issue. At least ask them to split the difference.

I understand that out of towners should be wlcome, but I would say 80% of the guests are out of towners and will all be coming in sometime Fri night. There is no way we can accomodate everyone. The way we look at it is that we will be nervous enough and most of these out of town people that his parents want to invite both of us have never even met. we just dont want have to entertain them, we rather have an intimate celebration with our family and bridal party. I guess we will see what happens. thanks for te advice

Jenn;

For my brother's rehearsal we had all the out-of-towners and it was actually really nice because everyone had the chance to really visit and when the weekend was over we all felt like we had the chance to spend time with our friends and meet her family instead of it being a situation where it all went so fast you didn't see anyone.

I hear ya there. My Fi keeps teasing me that he is going to play golf the morning of our wedding.
but yes I agree, an intimate reception is what we both want and we will hopefully succeed, when is your big day???

I sent you an email , looking forward to hearing from you