We are having ours on Nov 1 or 8, haven't decided yet. My daughter is in the marching band and Friday nights are always out. AND, every Saturday the entire month of October has band competitions scheduled. We don't have a choice. I think it will be cool anyway!

October 25th here. Ours is always the Saturday before. Maybe I'm just too picky, but I like to have mine in October during the anticipation of Halloween. There's an excitement in the air all night. No offense to others, but for me there's a small let down on Nov 1st, and I don't like the feeling of arriving at the gate just after the plane has pulled away.

As for competing with other parties, our turnout has increased every year which I take as meaning that we're drawing people away from other parties. People who have come for one year almost always have returned for the next year.

In any case, my vote is for the week before, but if everyone thought the same as me, we might have fewer attendees.

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Well, crap, I guess I spoke too soon.

My Dh just called me and told me that one of our good friends (who helps us out TONS) has a wedding that he has to attend on the 25th. He was asking when our party was since he really wants to be there...

DH and I are going to discuss moving the party to the 18th (two Saturdays before Halloween) so he can attend. If it was ANYONE else asking... NO WAY.

DH wasn't too keen on the idea of November 1st, even though I explained about the day of the dead stuff... I kind of feel the same way as Haunted Host; me personally I like the build up to the big day.

So we're kind of up in the air now as far as the date.

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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?

I tend to agree with having it in October and having the build up to the day, but I think we're going to chance it and do it Nov. 1st anyway. I just realized we're going to be out of town one weekend in October and thus takes away one weekend of preparing. I'm hoping we get as many people as usual and everyone is still in the spirit. It's our third time out and I'm hoping it's the best. First year was good, last year we had some minor glitches, like everyone showed up on time! I'm hoping we have everything tied together really well this year and we don't stress out too much on the day of.

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Nov 1st for me too

Ahh...I remember those days! Both our kids went through marching band in high school, and our son still coaches percussion at 3 high schools. So he and his girlfriend (also a coach elsewhere) show up late every year for our party. We always have it the Saturday before Halloween. I figure that if we consistently do it and not try to schedule around everyone else's schedule then we'll not drive ourselves nuts.

Our anniversary is the 29th, and my DH is annoyed that the Halloween party takes precedence over everything else, including our anniversary and the start of pheasant season! Not that there are pheasants around here, but he'd sure like to go somewhere where there are pheasants. Maybe I'll send him there so I can decorate in peace!

Ok Im probably the only one on here that has my parties early in October. Mine this year will be Saturday October 11th.
Last year we had ours the Friday before Halloween...Big Mistake,,,there were other friends of friends that had their parties the same night.
For us it just works better to have it earlier then everyone else, plus the weather may be a bit warmer at the begining of the month.

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We're having our party on the 25th also, but here's a thought for those having it on Nov 1st...it's the end of daylight savings that night so you can turn the clocks back and party for an extra hour!!

Great point! Yay!

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