I have some friends who perhaps are of the same religion as your wife. Did you ask her what some of her co-religionists do on holidays? Where I live they have a party the next day and it's still a lot of fun. That would have worked for you.

The bigger problem here is that you either don't know your wife all that well or you do and you just didn't respect her needs over your own social requirements. Get with the adult husband program man!