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My fiance's brother's graduation is the Friday evening before our wedding. If we move our rehearsal dinner to Thursday do you bees think that our wedding party will have everything still fresh in their minds for our wedding? Having it on Thursday means that we have to make our wedding party stay up later, eat later, rehearse later. And the wedding party who came from out of town needs to pay an extra night at a hotel.

It seems a lot more easier to change our wedding date a week earlier. Instead of 6-12-10 it would be 6-05-10. There would be no graduation to worry about. This way we can have the rehearsal dinner on a Friday.

Nothing has been booked that we can't change. The invitations and STDs have not been mailed yet.. 

What do you think I should do? What would you bees do in this case?

FI's brothers Highschool graduation.

I was going to say the Thursday rehearsal is fine, they will remember, but when you mentioned guests would have to stay another night, just go the week earlier.  Plus your FBIL can have his graduation day all to himself.

My FI and I can't agree upon this date. The hall has the date of 6-05-10 still available. I don't want to be difficult with him but changing the date has a lot of benefits. 

If we change the date:

1.We can have the rehearsal on a Friday

2.The OOT guest only have to stay a couple of nights rather than three nights which would save them money. There are only two OOT groomsmen in our wedding.

3.The date is still available to change with the hall.

4.If we have the rehearsal on a Friday rather than a Thursday this will be fresh in the wedding partys mind...

5.We don't have to stay up late on Thursday as some of us need to be at work early on Friday...

I hope I'm not repeating myself but this is something that needs to be addressed asap.. 

P.S.

I want to move the date to 6-5-10 on a Friday rehearsal.. 

So side with me please!

lol.

We decided not to move the date a week earlier. I really wanted to because the pastor mentioned all of the above reasons why Thursday would just not work. Also FI was totally against it. He wanted nothing to do with it. And he used the whole "wives submit to your husbands" thing. So I had to side with him and opt to not move the date. Phooyie he won.

I don't think you need to worry about the rehearsal staying fresh in everyone's minds.  I prefer a Thursday rehearsal overall so that people can let loose if they want to and still have Friday to recover.  Everytime I've stood up in a wedding I've taken Friday off anyway unless it was really problematic for me to be away from work.  That said though, if it's easy to change and there are a large number of people for whom an extra night would be a true inconvenience it would seem that changing the date would be easiest.  I guess I'm on the fence!