Dry Wedding. Thoughts??

In my experience, dry weddings are usually better for the day-time/brunch only because people usually expect alcohol, especially with dinner. I went to a lovely brunch wedding where they only served champagne for a toast and no one really batted an eye for alcohol because it was 11am.

If its for cost reasons there are plenty of ways to collect and save up for a beer and wine only bar. This is very affordable.

I prefer dry weddings earlier in the day, if we attend them. I would have lots of non-alcoholic options, sodas, sweet and unsweet tea, flavored tea, flavored water, carbonated water, coffee, hot tea, lemonade, etc. Some outdoor games would be good too! In my experience, dry weddings don't have really any dancing (or not much) and people tend to leave after dinner (just what I've seen in the 2 I've been to).

I agree with everyone, make it an earlier wedding. Maybe offer games if it's outdoors.

What time should I do it at? meaning what time should the venue be closing?

What time do you think the wedding should start? and what time should everyone leave at?

Have everything over by 5 pm. You can start whenever you want for a morning or afternoon ceremony.

The wedding I went to started at 10:30 and the ceremony was roughly 10:30-11, brunch was served 11:15-12:30 or so with speeches and everything, then lawn games, cake, and a few dances from 12:30-3. They took all of their photos after it ended so they didn't have to have a cocktail hour. Brunch had a lot of yummy foods, and there was champagne but also other things to drink like juices, sodas, tea, etc. They had cornhole and giant jenga outside. It was honestly a fun environment and I didn't feel like it "needed" a bar to make it better.

Thanks for your input!!!

If that's what you want to do I say go for it. People have a good time without Alcohol. You can have Mock tails to make it fun.

What's the latest time the wedding should end?

I'd move it to earlier. gf had one and people honestly left right after the cake was cut some didnt even wait for the cake. it was a 5pm ceremony and 6pm-10pm reception. it was empty by 8. if you can take advantage of the brunch/lunch idea that everyone suggested and be done by 4-5pm! lawn grames sound amazing and so does lunch atmosphere actually

we are drinkers and so are all of our friends and family so there is no way we can do it but id have a brunch/lunch type of thing w bbq and outdoor activities (id throw beer pong in it too lol)

Dry weddings are a-ok in my book. But if you're going to have a dry wedding, make sure your music is on point. Get you some dance music that will get everyone pumped up and out of their chairs racing for the dance floor

I went to a dry evening wedding a few years ago, and I noticed a lot of people complaining about it. Some people even brought flasks of hard liquor and spike their own drinks. I don't have anything against it personally, I think it comes down to knowing your audience.