Hi! So my wedding in in a little less than a year and my MOH and I have been having discussions about my bachelorette party. A little bit of background: my entire bridal party lives in different parts of the country, and only one of my bridesmaids currently lives in Michigan where I live, but will be moving out of state the month before my wedding. We are all financially limited for different reasons, so I've been looking at ways to try to save people money.
My wedding is going to be on a Saturday, and one of the thoughts we had was to have the bachelorette party the Thursday before the wedding. I've already brought this up to each of the bridesmaids, and they would all individually be able to make it work and are grateful at the idea of only having to fly out to Michigan once (especially with all the expenses being a bridesmaid comes with anyway). We've discussed doing a fun girls day (low key with maybe painting with a twist, mani/pedis, a lingerie party, etc) and then getting a few drinks in the evening. However, with this being a Thursday, most other people that I would be interested in inviting would (I assume) find this inconvenient due to work. Aside from my bridal party and 3 other people, everyone else I would invite is local.
My thoughts were to invite everyone to that and just understand that a lot of people might not make it (or would only make the evening portion), but also maybe do a typical bachelorette party a few months ahead of that, with dinner and a bar crawl on a Saturday night and maybe some fun other stuff, and just express to my out-of-state bridal party and friends that they are not expected to come to both, but are welcome if they'd like to.
I am open to suggestions and feedback! I think I would prefer to have one bachelorette party a few months ahead and make a day of it, but I also want to keep my bridesmaids budgets in mind.
