Dry wedding is still a fun wedding right?

I've been to dry weddings (for religious reasons) that have been fun but they certainly weren't low budget weddings and had a lot of other stuff extremely impressive things going on that added to the guest experience. I suppose I'm of the opinion that you should wayyyyyy overcompensate for lack of alcohol if you're even thinking of leaving it out

I think WW needs a theme song that can be embedded in troll posts about dry weddings. Perhaps in the next update? Lol

As you will find most people on here love to drink and will say it's a NO NO.

However if you think you and your family can do it without alcohol please do so.

I have fun with my friends and family without a drink so I'm good either way.

It's your grandparents Barn and it's not even going to be kept in a family afterwards? You're going to have to dig hard for an excuse not to have alcohol

Not fun at all. I was at a wedding on Friday, and 80% of the guests left right after supper. It was supposed to go to midnight, but was shut down at 10pm, because barely anyone was there.

Wait wait wait... your venue is your family's property? Why didn't you mention it earlier, and why are you acting like this is your venue's rules? Are your grandparents against alcohol?

No, not really.

My best friend's wedding was a dry wedding. It was two college age people getting married and 60% of the guests were college kids and we all still had a blast. My FH's best friend's wedding was the same way and again, still super fun. Alcohol doesn't make a wedding.

Oh god, please don't do this. Dry weddings are the worst.

Future Ms.B, that makes zero sense.

OP, how do your families, who both drink, feel about it??

Your grandparents barn is your venue.. now how are you in any way "not allowed" to serve alcohol?

Dry weddings CAN be fun... it's all in how you do it and who your crowd is. Original post didn't give much info as to why you don't drink and why you can't have alcohol at your venue. IMO: If you don't drink because of religious reasons then why would you serve it to your guest? Obviously that also goes against your beliefs. If you don't drink for health reasons or some other reason but still feel obligated to serve it to guest that's your choice. But it's wrong to tell someone they HAVE to serve alcohol to their guests, especially when it also goes against their beliefs. (And I'm not here to defend or explain for or against, even if I was it wouldn't change anyone's mind!) If your reason is to cut costs then that's not good hosting but if it's your beliefs be confident in what you believe. I'm having a dry wedding and I know it will be amazing and everyone will have fun. Most of my guest don't drink for religious reasons and those who do understand that it is our belief and expect to not be served alcohol. I'm not even worried about someone missing alcohol, I know they want to be at my wedding and thy know what to expect. It's also silly to replace alcohol with fake alcohol drinks, you just have a different style wedding not formed around the status quo of drinking. Let's be respectful of others beliefs. I haven't went on any rants about how the rest of you shouldn't serve alcohol at your weddings, just saying

I don't recall ever attending a dry wedding but that wouldn't make my time at the reception, celebrating with the newly married couple, any less fun. I don't need alcohol to have a good time. I've been on outings with friends when I was on my diet kick (pre wedding obvi) and didn't drink at all, including at happy hours, birthday parties, holiday parties, etc, and always had a good time. Alcohol doesn't make or break the fun and it wouldn't stop me from attending.

That being said, if I had the choice, as a guest, of attending a dry wedding or an alcohol wedding (not sure what that is called?), I'd choose the one that has alcohol.

Not really/ not in the same way. If it's your family's property and they drink why would it be "not allowed" for you to serve wine and beer?

Smells like you're being cheap and selfish. Go elope if you think none of your guests should be able to drink because you don't want to drink so you're not paying for them to have a glass of wine.

Don't worry about it. People will have flasks and drink beer from a keg in their cars... lol..seriously..you have some time, you might want to reconsider this.

Actually nope. I'd be pissed and probably watching the clock.

Don't forget that people WILL bring alcohol with them and be headed out to their car bar. Especially if you've announced it.

To the PP who said all their guests drink but are "excited" about their dry wedding- I'm sure they'll have their coolers of booze all prepped in the car!

FH and I just went to a wedding that was BYOB but did not announce that so in a sense it was "dry". The bride and groom had an absolute blast with a few of their wp....and they were the only ones. Seriously the rest of us were miserable and bored out of our minds, I would reconsider since most of your guests will drink

I get the dry wedding thing, and I like being a little drunk at weddings, but I do NOT need booze to have a good time and it's unfortunate that so many people do. When I host people at my house I do feel that we should get them a drink whether it is to be alcohol or not (especially if most of your crowd aren't big drinkers anyway, it is actually silly to spend copious amounts of money on alcohol.) The people who love you will still come and they'll talk about it but at the end of the day you DO YOU. If you wanna have a dry wedding people may not come (but to me those are people who are too preoccupied with free booze, then your special day are not really people you want at your wedding anyway. ) I promise the people who love you, love you and will still come.

And they'll leave early. Unless they think dry weddings are fine. Which OP has already mentioned. That they don't.