Bar tab...

Are you asking how much will you likely pay? Or do you not intend on paying the full tab?

You mean like a deposit on it or the total cost?

For reference on total cost, beer and wine is about $30pp for 4 hours and full premium is $54pp for 4 hours. I'm in RI.

$2000 is what I'm paying but that's because I'm not with a vendor and providing my own booze...but when I used alcohol calculators for vendor based open bars I believe they're closer to $3,000 for 4 hours.

@rica what are you getting for food? and is that only beer and wine?

How much is alcohol per person for your venue? That will tell you how much you are going to pay....

ETA I misread your post. I paid $58/pp for 4 hours of premium open bar. I had 54 guests.

Our venue is charging us $40 per person plus taxes for 4.5 hours full open bar

We are paying $20 pp for an open bar.

Our venue does not provide alcohol..so what we are doing is getting a full keg we got a ton of different wines at a local store many are under $5 quite a few different house liquors and really kept it to a good budget. We have about 100 guests and there are many who don't drink

Do you have open bar or are you doing a consumption bar?

We had a consumption bar for 112 guests and we paid $2900.

ETA: I am in the north shore, Massachusetts area

Our open bar was $24.50 per person for 4 hours. That included wine, beer, mixed drinks and wine slushie. We had around 175 so it was a little over $4k total for the bar.

Our venue supplies the beer and wine so it's $3 a beer $5 for wine 4 hours 100 people

Our venue charges $28.50pp for full bar including premium, and charges us $10.50 pp for drinks (pop,juice etc) for anyone under the age of 21

I think I'm confused about the question. What exactly are you asking Kayla?

Our venue charged an additional $20/PP to upgrade to open bar.

I'm spending about $1k between the bartending service and the alcohol itself. BYO at a private residence and all that.

@futuremrsp best way to do it. That's exactly what we did! Open bar and no stress at all we know our guests how they drink and we don't have to worry about figuring out charging ect. Wet have a bartender friend who is serving free of charge but we are going to give her something at end of wedding

If you are referring to a consumption bar, take into account how many of those 100 are adults that are able to drink. We then took the highest priced drink on the list and multiplied it by each hour and then by the number of guest. So far example, highest drink $10, 80 drinking guest, 3 hour reception= $2400