Both Dave and I are utterly exhausted. We got a lot done today but it's 12:30 on Wednesday night (technically Thursday) and there is still so much more to do. Tomorrow is the rehearsal dinner. I hate that it had to be on a Thursday and 5:30 was the absolute latest to run the rehearsal. It is completely inconvenient for everyone. Personally, I don't feel comfortable telling my bridal party to take the day off work on a Thursday so they can make it to our rehearsal. Even if we could do it on a Friday, then at least if people wanted they could take a long weekend. Sadly, that wasn't possible for our venue as they have weddings Friday nights, Saturday afternoons, Saturday nights, and Sundays.
Needless to say, we are basically having two as a result. One "traditional" rehearsal at the venue with the onsite wedding planner, the officiant, and the nice dinner afterward. Another on Saturday afternoon with just the bridal party not at the venue. Basically something simpler that will just show everyone what they are doing. This separate party is going to need to be fed as they will be understandably hungry so we will be going with the cheaper dinner of pizza. I feel badly that all I can offer them is cheap pizza when they are taking not one but two whole days out for us. That's not even including all the numerous hours each of them have put in helping us out in all the other ways.
More so, it killed Dave and me to have to tell our friends that they could not bring their loved one to the rehearsal dinner tomorrow. It's one of those moments where I'm wondering if we should have just paid for it all but it's tough when you have eight members of your bridal party. If each of them brought their significant other, that's one huge party and it would have been lovely to have them all but it would have killed us financially. Of course, not every one of our bridal party members can come so maybe we could have figured out something but it's tomorrow and we've already told people no so I just need to let it go. I just feel like maybe I shouldn't have been so selfish and cut back on something else in order to accommodate everyone. Let it go Denise. What's done is done and if this is your biggest regret, you will figure out a way to make it up to everyone.
So yes, it's officially two more days until Saturday when everything needs to be finished. We can do this and what we can't will be okay. Everything will be okay.
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