The event organizers had been married long enough to understand how being required to sleep on the sofa due to a scheduling SNAFU at an event is highly undesireable.

Now ya'll have me traipsing down memory lane...we didn't find out till afterwards IIRC but the "organizers" (aka the "leaders" of our own organization) had planned this little "farbfest" to happen just as it did! *grinds teeth*  Geez, even after 20 years or so, that raises my blood pressure!