Rehearsal Dinner Q’s

Hello! Would love some thoughts. Should we change?
Our wedding is rapidly approaching. We’ve had a long engagement & booked some things without fully thinking it through. We started by having a smaller budget for rehearsal dinner (it’s larger now) and found our venue had space for us to also do our rehearsal dinner there which was convenient at first. However, just next door, another event will be happening - which means we can’t do our rehearsal for the ceremony there. This bums me out because we now have the flexibility to do it anywhere and don’t need to do it at the venue.
The venue is ab 10 mins from where most people going to the RD are staying (downtown). We could have had it downtown but again, our budget started smaller than it is now.So, I’m torn because our venue is very DIY whereas a restaurant downtown (which is available) will do it all for us - set up, breakdown, provide food & drinks, etc. It’ll be about the same price. Should we change?BTW - my family in law has done nothing to help plan it but pay. They most likely won’t do anything for the rehearsal the day of. My mom is getting upset because that means I (the bride) & she will prob be the ones who’ll have to set it up if we do it @ the venue. She doesn’t want to & is somewhat backing out helping us