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When is your main, traditional Christmas Dinner?  Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, another time?

Our main big dinner is Christmas Eve.   When all of the elder grandparents were alive, they always insisted the big dinner be held New Year's Day . . . although they never really told us why!

We do not have any set traditional Christmas Dinner.

Our main traditional meal is Christmas day dinner (either turkey or ham with all the fixings) but we have "traditions" for the Christmas Eve pizza (seriously!)....this started as a joke and became a "thing".  I remember growing up and (let's just say my mother was always taken by surprise that Christmas eve was 12/24 every year!!). Sometimes we wouldn't even have the tree up yet and ended up getting pizza for dinner. Which as a kid, no biggie, pizza is always great. When we got married and had kids...well it seemed easier to keep this "tradition" because who's in the 4pm Christmas pageant at church and we have to call Norad to see where Santa is and get to bed really early LOL. So pizza is the traditional Christmas Eve dinner! And we always have to have cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast. DH's family used to do the Italian Feast of the 7 Fishes on Christmas eve but poor MIL would have to make chicken for all the grandchildren who wouldn't eat fish...then I joined the family and ate w/ the grandchildren LOL! (I'm 11 years older than the oldest grandchild yet 18 years younger than Dh's oldest brother).

Christmas Day and I usually host it. Christmas Eve my mom hosts her traditional Christmas Eve feast.

Christmas Day, with my parents', brother, sis in law.

For us, the biggest and the best is always the Saturday after Christmas.

Christmas Day.

Christmas Day, mid-day

Both.  In-laws do it on Christmas Eve.  My family does it Christmas Day.

It's whenever we have our Christmas get together with our kids and all the grandkids. Often it's not on Christmas Day as there is travel time for 2 of the families and we would prefer they just enjoy the day together at their homes instead of traveling.

Also, DIL always has to go to her Mom's on the actual holiday and it's over an hour then to our house.

It really depends! Our family, meaning DH and me and the kids, is usually cinnamon rolls and some kind of pasta dish on Christmas itself. But the big family dinner, with brothers and nieces and nephews and such, has usually become the Saturday or Sunday after Christmas. We went to that probably at least 15 years ago, so that those with little kids didn't have to say "Ok kids, hurry and open your gifts because we have to go." I always had an almost 3 hour drive, so that was tough. Now it's more relaxed and we can enjoy each other's company more.

We do big dinners both days but somehow over the years DH's family has all started coming here on Christmas Eve for a big  prime rib dinner.  Not a lot of us left in the area anymore but as the wandering kids roll in from around the country,  they all are looking forward to dinner with their sibs and cousins and catching up on Christnas Eve here.  They come early and stay late. I take probably hundreds of pix.  Then on Christmas Day it is usually just DH, our sons and me for traditional turkey dinner.  

Christmas Day. 

Love making a huge dinner!
 But I want a couple hours between dinner and dessert. 

I try for Christmas Day, but sadly when family is scattered, I do it when I can. As close as possible.

We have our main Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve with my family. There are over 30 of us. We have tons of food, but do sandwiches: ham, roast beef and turkey. Lots of desserts and sweets. Then after dinner Santa arrives and everyone sits on his lap and gets a gift.

Our traditional dinner is on Christmas day with just DH and I and our kids and so far one son-in-law and a granddaughter and grandson.
 

kinda depends; can be both day's - 12/24 & 12/25.  

Both days - Christmas eve is always a seafood dinner (feast of the 7 fishes) and we get Christmas pj's, Christmas day we usually spend the entire day together as a family and have a bunch of appetizers and a big dinner

Christmas Day.

DH's family does a big Christmas Eve, and my family is usually big on Christmas Day