I'm in the same boat except we always have ours on the friday before. Saturday nite parties are too hard for our group (my DH is a pastor). we've almost decided to have ours on Halloween nite and just start a little later so those with kids can TOT still (ours included). We thought about doing it the fri before, but its a home football game and all of our friends have season tickets (go oklahoma football) Any thoughts on having it on halloween nite itself?