Alcohol at rehearsal dinner

It's whatever you can afford! But if alcohol is served, the host should pay for it.

Agree with C&S, do what's affordable. It's nice but not necessary. We'll be paying for beer and wine only, for anything else our guests are on their own.

I agree with the other ladies. It alcohol is in the budget the host should definitely pay for it. We are only serving beer and wine as well. Everyone can get the full bar the next day at the wedding

For our RD its : If you want alcohol you have to buy it your self. Because FMIL is hosting, and she can afford to feed everyone. Thats it!

I agree with the other ladies. Do what you can afford. Our RD is going to be at a BYOB so actually our very close family friend will be supplying everything since he owns a couple of liquor stores.

It doesn't matter! For us, FFIL is paying for our food & my dad is paying for the liquor. No one on FH's side of the family drinks, but my family does, so I only thought this was fair.

My FMIL is paying for our RD as well so if ppl want alcohol they will be paying for it themselves.

Ditto to what the other ladies have said. It's nice if the host pays for some drink, even if it is just sodas (which is what we will doing), anything beyond that is on the guest themselves.

My FIL's are hosting ours but they don't drink so we'll be supplying the alcohol. Probably just some beer, wine and champagne since it's not a big group and there aren't many heavy drinkers.

I'm not having alcohol at my RD. A few people that will be there don't know self control and I don't want hungover people taking pictures

Our RD/Welcome get together is super informal - pizza, wings, subs, beer, wine and soda. If they want something harder, they can BYOB.

I hear a lot of mixed reviews on this. I don't like the idea of cash bars at weddings, but some people don't care.

I didn't have it for several reasons, my reception at the venue was pretty short, no real time for people to sober up before they would be driving, and I didn't want to have to worry about who was drinking too much and who wasn't.

depends on the reception you are having but to answer your question I would say receptions include all of the above depending on where and when.

Ugh this is something we're dealing with now. The correct answer is whatever you can host is fine! For us personally, I will be horribly embarrassed if our friends and family are made to pay for their own alcohol. FMIL and FFIL are splitting the cost of the RD (they're divorced) but FMIL is a certified crazy, manipulative, cheapskate and doesn't want to pay for alcohol...even though she drinks and can afford it no problem...

We are providing beer and wine for our guests.

Thanks everyone! I pretty much told him it depends on the setting (is a bar even available), what they can afford and the type of guests (ones who drink too much, are they responsible or will they have a bunch of hungover people the next day). His bro is getting married and the parents are unsure. I told him I didn't hear of anything being more "proper" than another. Thanks again!