Cash bar

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Cash bars are tacky. It's fine to do just beer and wine, but a guest should not have to open their wallet at your wedding for a drink.

....Yes. Pay for the bar for your guests.

Your guests should pay for NOTHING at your reception. If you want alcohol available you need to pay for it. Do you invite guests to your home and say "that will be 5.00 for that Bud Light"?

Ohh nooo. I hope you're ready for some nasty comments. The answer is NO. You have to pay

I understand having a tight budget, but try to squeeze in beer and wine

Are you under age? Is it against your religion? Are you or your FH in recovery? If you didn't answer yes to any of those questions, you need to put the bar in the budget.

Goooood luck with this one on WW.

At least do beer and wine. No to a cash bar. Super tacky.

Cash bars are very rude. You need to properly host your guests

If you can't afford to pay for at least beer and wine for your guests, you can't afford that many guests.

Whoa....didn't know ppl thought alcohol was such a big deal to have a good time with....no I am not underage, against my religion or in recovery....I do have some significant family history that makes me not want to pay for it....I will consider putting a portion down on the bar but I'm also military and holding my wedding on a military installation and I do have to maintain some decorum....so I agree with putting a portion down but I think I'll cap it off at a reasonable at and then it can be a cash bar

I can afford to pay for beer and it is a small wedding I choose not to spend a crazy at of my budget on getting ppl toasted tho but that's me

Your military friends will expect to be able to drink, if they're anything like my FH's... we keep making jokes about shoving them in a corner because ... well, Army boys will be Army boys, ya know?

I personally wouldn't do a cash bar I just wouldn't do any alcohol I'd that's the case but that's just me

Put it in your budget--at least beer and wine. Cut out something else that wouldn't impact your guests. It really is rude to expect your guests to pay for a drink.

Just do beer and wine. That'll cut costs.

Thank you to the ladies that had legitimate advice and offered alternative or ideas.

After going to a wedding full of FDNY (I know not the same, but still men and women who risk their lives every day) those guys and ladies drank. And they drank a lot. And they got to unwind because their job is stressful. You are not the person to tell people how to act. You are there to properly host your guests and that includes drinks. I'd rethink this decision.

If someone chose to leave my wedding because they didn't have alcohol...bye Felicia!

Please don't! Beer and wine is fine!