poll (kinda) about alcohol

Our venue gives an option but we are having the venue provide the drinks and a cash bar.

Corkage is quite expensive and can do without the hassle of getting the booze to the venue!

Venue.. they won't let us bring our own.. I don't think i'm being ripped of which is a good thing...wine might taste gross tho but o well!!

Ours is catered for by our venue, and we're only providing either 2 or 3 drinks (it will be either one for the toast and one for the cake cutting, or one for the toast, one for the cake cutting and one during the meal. Depends on how many rsvps we get since our list is now 14 people over the original 3-drinks budget!). People will buy their own from the bar after that.

I Hope pple dont think were being stingy! were providing a reception drink, 2 glasses of wine with the meal and a toast drink... anything else and people will have to pay for it themselves ans the evening it totally up to them to pay. otherwise it would just cost too much

We have having reception drinks, but not necessarily one - there will be enough to last for an hour, so however many that takes. Plus 3 bottles of wine per table of 6 people, plus a drink for the toast.

OH also wants to kick start the evening with a round of shots......... we are still debating this one!

Well, you're providing at least one drink more than I am! Lol!

I've never once been to a wedding without a cash bar, it's expected here I think that people just pay for their own. I have quite strong feelings about it, why should I pay for somebody else to get sloshed?! It's not stingy at all, it's normal!

As for drinks during the meal, if we're providing any it will definitely only be one. From my own experience, most people already have a drink of their choice by the time the meal is getting served, and so a lot of people either turn the wine down that is offered, or take it and it then gets left on the table.

well i had a bridezilla moment lol... but the package gives a drink of bucks fizz or a bottle of beer on reception... i banned the beer cos im not having poeople walking around with beer bottles in their hands.

i dont think that one would end well lol

my venue drinks are on the slightly expensive side... i like that cos then they cant get too sloshed! my brother in law's wedding was at a working mans club and the drinks were so cheap everyone was almost on the floor by the end lol

Yeah, ours too! Another reason why I won't consider an open bar!

No corkage allowed!

We have paid for welcome drink, 5 bottles of wine per table of ten and fizz for the toasts.

The venue was built as a pub 750 years ago so the do have a beautiful bar area for all the guests to buy drinks from!

I dont think ours allow corkage either, but i dont think id be buying the alcohol even if they did lol too much hassle lol

WSS. This is what I have had at weddings so I wouldn't really expect the bride and groom to pay for everyone's drinks. In an ideal world we would though!

Our venue allows you to bring your own wine but the corkage is so high it isn't worthwhile. Last year corkage was 17 quid a bottle!!

I think mine allows corkage but not bothering,

having welcome drink and one for the toast in my package and if the budget will go maybe 2 bottles of wine on the tables for the meal but that would be £200 quid ish!

I went to a wedding recently and they provided a welcome drink and one for the toasts and everyone was able to go to the bar if they wanted a drink xx

Our venue gives a bottle of each per table. Our guests know we're mot made of money so do not mind at all that after the bottles of wine they are to buy their own! Seen as we're not asking for any gifts or money i don't think its a bad deal

We are paying for 1 or 2 glasses of wine with the meal and 1 glass of sparkling wine to toast with... all other alcohol is via the pay bar

Venue, i don't think they let you provide your own, in our package we have free flowing champagne, and bellini for two hours, then 1/2 bottle of wine per guest at wedding breakfast then a champagne toast,

they offered beer as one of our reception drink but my OH refused as he didn't want everyone drinking loads before the wedding breakfast!! hopefully will be soaked up by the canapes and the 5 course breakfast!

cash bar will be open from after the ceremony throughout the night.

Why don't you want the beer bottles? OH has insisted I provide some bottled beer with the arrival drinks - he hates going to weddings and being forced to choose between the usual Pimms and Champagne as he can't bear either and he wants a good old drink with the rest of us! So I've let him have the beer, more champagne for me ?

We're providing a drink on the bus to the reception, arrival drink, half a bottle of wine per person on the tables and a toast drink. Our venue doesn't charge any corkage which makes it reasonable as I can just go to Tesco (other supermarkets are available) over Xmas and stock up on all the stuff on offer.

Beer would be okay if it were in a nice glass, but bottles? not having those on my nice wedding photographs!

Baha! Bridezilla! (I'm joking - I get where you're coming from.)

I can't be bothered to provide glasses, more cost in terms of hiring them. I won't be putting any pictures of my uncle Jason quaffing lager on my living room wall though!

This thread has just sold us on the idea of having bottled beers on arrival. I think it is lovely to think of the fellas, they are there to enjoy themselves too.

That's my thinking Sparkles. I'd never really thought about it until OH mentioned that he never really enjoys the arrival drink at other weddings and on his own wedding day he knows he'll be gagging for a beer!

Joking aside I couldn't give a stuff about the photos so long as all our guests are having fun.

We are providing all the drinks for ours as there is no bar facility available. We are having pimms on arrival, then wine, beer and real ale, champagne for toasts and obviously soft drinks. The venue doesn't charge corkage. We have said in the invitations what will be provided and said for people to bring their own if there's anything specific they want.

I have never been to a wedding yet where all the formal photos have people holding drinks, so I am not at all worried.

We have just decided on a choice of 3 cocktails for the ladies, and a choice of 3 beers for the gents and I am rather chuffed :-)

We provided our own and paid corkage for the drinks reception and the meal, then had a cash bar in the evening.

We provided just over half a bottle of prosecco per person (as we were having afternoon tea rather than a hot meal we had prosecco with the first course as well as for the "welcome drink") and 1/3 of a bottle of sweet wine. We only used half of the sweet wine we had bought, and had about 6 bottles of prosecco left.

We are having welcome drink then 2 glasses each of something. Then a cash bar. We too are having bottles of beer for the men, as a lot of our friends don't do champagne, pimms etc. I'm not, not having beer so that it looks good on the photos. These are our friends and beer is a symbol of who they are and what they like to drink. I just can imagine my OH standing with his mates with a beer in their hands. I don't see anything wrong in it. ?

Venue is providing all drinks they wont let me do my own ☹️

Our caterers are providing drinks for the toast and the meal, and a cash bar in the evening...prices are very reasonable though.

We're providing the wine and the fizz, corkage is reasonable and we bought it all from a little vineyard in France last summer. Currently sitting in our hallway as that's the coolest room!

The venue manager suggested this as they have quite a limited wine list and we are both quite into wine (OH more than me, but I really liked the wines we picked)

All other drinks (after than draft ales) will be on a cash bar basis, but I might suggest that they get in some bottled ciders and some White Zinfandel Rose as those are generally popular among our friends, but not generally on the menu.

i dont mind beer if its ina glass, but i dont like bottles at all. not when the majority will have nice flutes.

its my only bridezilla thing so far but im quite stern on it and OH agrees too. i mean for the meal beer is fine if they want it and want to pay for it, but not when theres pics being taken i dont want bottles of beer

We're buying wine and either sparkly or champers as corkage charge is low. Drinks reception is at our home so we'll be buying for that anyway. The reception venue have offered to put on OH's fave real ale on the cash bar at no charge to us, but OH wants to pay for a keg so free beer for takers but not free bar overall as we would be worried about certain people hitting the shots and getting in a mess!

Providing my own and no corkage = result!

We are having a bar too, though, for those that would prefer beer/spirits!