My DP suddenly, completely out of the blue, decided to have a half-hour rant at me last night about the fact that DD's party is on a Sunday - this Sunday, to be precise! Now, I must stress that he has been part of most of the discussions about this party, certainly all the early ones about when and where, together with MiL, at whose house said party will be. At no point has he said, 'why not do it on the Saturday?' A few people will be coming a distance, but I sent the invites out a month ago and so they have had plenty of time and many opportunities to say something if they thought it odd. His main point was that it would muck people's weekends up, that those driving a long way wouldn't get home until late (8.30pm ish) and were working the next day and that as it wasn't a christening it wasn't as if we had to do it on a Sunday.
I pointed out to him (as calmly without screaming as I could) that most people doing the long drive were doing it in a day because they had things to do on the Saturday, they pretty much all have children and so won't be thinking of it as an adult party with all out to get trashed and it is a daytime thing, with no plans to go into the evening, which is what I would imagine a Saturday party would end up doing. It's kind of like the children's version of meeting up for Sunday lunch, iyswim.
I'm trying not to get too wound up about it, but right now I feel like phoning everyone and saying sorry, it's off.