Dry wedding reception

AA weddings are a blast Alison. Been to many and this is a second sober wedding for me. 26 years in June. My FH is not AA he going to figure out how wine and beer the normies will need and buy it. We have plenty of personality and fun sober. I remember the first time dancing sober was awkward, but got over that a long time ago! Cheers, lol.

View Quoted Comment Oh yay!! I’m so excited to hear that! Yeah, we’re a crazy bunch, and I’m not worried about us, but maybe just the few normies who might be wondering what the heck? Lol CONGRATULATIONS on 26 years!! That’s amazing! And sooo inspirational! Thank you! My sponsor is getting married next month and they are going to have beer and wine for their normie families, so FH and I will get to scope out how it feels too

View Quoted Comment I totally agree.. in recovery myself, as is my fh.. alcohol wasn't even brought up in our planning.. our guests include fellow NA members, family and co-workers. NONE of our guests would expect alcohol, and would be shocked if it was provided.. and many would leave after the ceremony due to the presence of alcohol.. ceremony at 1pm, closing down at 5. I'd imagine anyone wanting to drink may be able to hold off for those 4 hours..

We aren't having any alcohol at our wedding. At all. Period. We don't drink, our friends don't drink, our family doesn't drink, we aren't serving alcohol.
95% of weddings I have been to were dry weddings.
Alcohol is not welcome in our social circle.

It’s considered rude. At least host beer and wine, or do consumption bar.
If you do have a dry wedding, expect everyone to leave immediately after dinner and those who do drink will sneak in their own alcohol. Not fun.

My FH and I went to a dry wedding in the fall. Our group of friends brought our own alcohol and mixed it with their sodas. And we left early.

We aren’t having alcohol. We are getting married and having the ceremony at the same church. And the church doesn’t allow alcohol. Works out great for us as we do have some recovering alcoholics in the immediate family. But FHs sister also had an alcoloh free wedding and everything went fine for her!

I have been in a dry wedding, the bride & groom are LDS and the groom was under 21. Most of the guests didn't drink, so they didn't miss it. I obviously noticed it, but no one else was drinking so I didn't miss it. I think a great alternative is tons of non-alcoholic drinks: lemonade, sweet and unsweetened tea, flavored waters, pops, coffee, hot tea, etc. so you still have lots of options. For what I've seen at least, most cash bars still charge you a fee per person (lower, like $8 per person) just to have the bar there. They may charge that for non-alcoholic drinks too, I'm not sure. It just depends on what you want!

I went to a dry wedding once and it was the worst. I was honestly probably in the 1% you are talking about as the wedding I went to was a very religious family, but if you are at all worried about that 1%, I would have alcohol, if only beer and wine.

Just be a good host.

I personally think bars at weddings are tacky. There, I said it. 😂😂😂

View Quoted Comment I would say be a good host to your guests who may be put in a situation with alcohol easily available. Since you are saying that most of your guest is in AA then are there many that would be tempted by easy access alcohol? If yes then I’d be more for providing a fun safe atmosphere for them. I get that people have to learn to be around alcohol while recovering. But people are in different stages. I wouldn’t bat an eye if I attended a wedding with People full of AA members. I most certainly wouldn’t sneak alcohol in either. I’d respect my friends. With that said you everyone is fully comfortable with being around it then do a consumption bar fornicate hose few that drink.

Omg *for those not *fornicate hose darn spelling on my phone!

We had not planned on having a dry wedding, but we are now. We are having our reception on the church grounds immediately following the ceremony. They do not allow drinking nor dancing. SO, 10:30am service, brunch reception with virgin bloody mary's, punch, coffee station, and sparkling water. We'll have a string quartet playing. We have a photo booth. The majority of our guests are 40 and over.

Mine is 100% dry. I drink socially but do not feel alcohol is necessary to have fun. I don't want to be responsible for other people's poor choices or behavior at my celebration. Plus it is very expensive. None of my guests, who are also alchohol consumers care at all. This is an event I want everyone from my 90 yr old grandma to my friend and her babies to be comfortable attending for the whole time. No judgement on those that choose to have alchohol at their reception, that's perfectly fine. Been to many receptions with it and they were nice, just not what we want to do.

I’ve been to two dry wedding and they top my list as worst weddings I’ve been to. At least do beer and wine.

View Quoted Comment And why is that?

View Quoted Comment My thoughts exactly!!! If someone wants to drink that bad they can survive for a few hours or leave early. I must be the odd one out I have a very small unit of friends that are honest and up front with me and I with them. If a person wants alcohol more than they want to celebrate this, my special day with me, they wouldn't have been on my guest list to begin with because that's not how friendship works in my planet lol.

I was a guest at a dry wedding. It was pretty boring so we and a group of friends left and went to a bar.

View Quoted Comment Lol don’t worry, they will all leave early.