Alcohol favours anyone?

Our venue stated no alcoholic favours, and I don't even think liqueur chocolates are permitted. I guess there are two reasons - one being they lose money from their overpriced bar for a captive audience, and secondly the risk of children getting hold of them as kids are more likely to eat a chocolate than steal someone's drink.

I can't give alcohol as a favour as one of my cousins is a recovering alcoholic and I don't want to be responsible for her falling off the wagon.

It is annoying when you think they're making more than enough money out of you, and drinks for evening guests. The only reason we're doing it is so that day guests can save a few pounds!

Thinking about it, a videographer gave us a copy of a wedding he did at our venue and they had them on the table.

xx

Hey,

we're thinking of having them but we have asked the venue and they said it's fine.

do you mind me asking where you are getting urs from? at the moment the cheapest place I

have found is just minatures.com

are you putting them in bags?

We have mini Baileys for our favours. We did check with venue, but as the others have said they have no problem (unless its a crate of lager each ?)

We got them from just miniatures and found them to be really reasonble.

Course not honey.

Well initially we were going to buy them from confetti.co.uk in a glass bottle with personalised label which were £3.33 but worked out cheaper the more you buy.

I then found the following website https://www.miniatureglassbottles.co.uk/index.html where you can buy the glass bottles with free personalised labels if ordering over 25 and they only work out at 70-78p per bottle and then it's more cost effective to buy an economy bottle of vodka or whatever you choose from Supermarket! So that's our plan at the moment.

I've just bought some cute little bows to stick on the top.

xx

My BM is getting married soon as she has done alcoholic favours, I'm not sure if they have checked with the venue (do you think I should mention this to her?) SHe is having a minature plus glass with a menu for making a cocktail for the ladies and hot toadies for the gents.

We're doing these - baileys / whisky - and got them direct from Diageo thru a friend, worked out pretty cheap like £1.20 each or less. Totally didnt think to check with venue but cant see it being a problem as they are very laid back.

We're tying ribbons round ours in our colour scheme with our names / hearts on, looks v cute but not looking forward to tying so much ribbon! x

Most definitely check - I'm sure she'd hate to find out on the day that they can't give them out, and end up with an argument occurring about it.

Still best to ask though, they may have been charged corkage for them?

I would also be careful with decanting alcohol into other bottles... not sure what the licensing laws have to say about that...

I think it's a case of what they don't know won't hurt them! But to say the bottle company are selling them, I would assume it is suitable.

I hope my guests appreciate all this effort just to save them a trip to the bar!

I could sell certain drug paraphenalia online if I wanted to but it doesn't make drugs any less legal? A bit of an extreme comparison but I hope you get my meaning. Just worth checking imo.

lol fair point!! Not sure where you could find that out?

We're having little bottles of alcohol for favours. I checked with the venue first as I was worried it might get caught up in their corkage fee somehow. They say it's fine though.

I'd recommend asking before you buy.

We have wedding ale and wedding liqueur - but then we're getting married at a brewery...

I had miniatures. It was perfect for us as our venue was righ opposite the Penderyn distillery so we had Penderyn Whisky, Gin and Merlin (Baileys). They went down an absolute treat and were well received by the guests. There certainly wasnt any left at the end of the night.

Definitely check with the venue though.

I made boxes for mine that coordinated with my stationery and popped in a Farrero Roche as well as these are my all time fav choccies!!

Nat

For the sake of a quick phone call, I think it is worth asking the venue to give peace of mind. I don't think a venue would change their rules based on whether someone asks or not.