Dry Wedding

My brother's wedding was a dry wedding and I don't drink so it didn't bother me at all. I'm not sure about other guests experience though.

The people who are the most important will be content getting to witness you and your husband marry! Like you said, that's what matters.

However, I would prepare for your guest to do just that - witness you two get married. The crowd may die down much sooner at a dry wedding for obvious reasons. If you want the party/celebration experience, maybe you can find another venue for the reception? Or even have your guest follow you downtown to continue the party. But that's totally your call! You know your crowd better than us!

I think as long as you have good music, food, and punch everything will be okay.

Would it be possible to book a new reception venue like a community center?

We are having a dry wedding and it doesn’t matter what other people think anyway. People can have fun without alcohol as long as you have music and dancing and maybe a game area or something. It won’t be a wild party but people also don’t go to weddings to get drunk and have fun they go to celebrate and see people they love get married! Don’t even worry about it, but if you are like the other post said maybe have an after party at a local bar, if you want.

I think dry weddings can be lots of fun! And who says you can’t have super fun mocktails? This week is teacher appreciation and parents did a luncheon for us which included mocktails of margaritas and sangria, they were so good I’m asking for the recipe!! 😍 Maybe something like that would work?

It really depends on the crowd and the type of wedding. Where I come from, there is an expectation that evening weddings will have alcohol and I have heard much disappointment from friends who have attended dry weddings. BUT, if it in a church (and more so if it is in the afternoon) I would not say I would be surprised if there was no alcohol because of those factors and the reality of the matter is if people are going to judge your wedding solely because of no alcohol then clearly they aren't attending for the right reasons!

This is a know-your-crowd thing...

Even though I have quit drinking, we are having a premium open bar cuz I know my family is wild partiers and would expect alcohol

However, one of my besties is mormon and no one in either family drank and the wedding was great

Depends on the crowd. I went to one dry wedding due to the venue not allowing it and it was so dull. Really boring, no one danced. I went to another one that was Mormon and everyone danced and it was fun.

I have attended countless dry weddings. Mainly due to religious reasons. Whether guests had fun or not depends on the crowd. Some are very lively and others are dull. That has nothing at all to do with alcohol itself. If people want to have fun then they will. A couple of the most fun weddings I have attended, with a packed dance floor and everything, didn’t have a drop of alcohol anywhere, nor did anyone bring a flask.

Sure, why not? Except for the alcoholics amongst us, most people spend all day and early evening 5 or more days a week, and enjoy conversation, good food and good music.

I've been to many dry weddings... in fact, I can't remember the last wedding I went to that had alcohol.

The biggest key to me is having an MC to move things along and not having everyone watch you take pictures for 4 hours. There is nothing more boring to me than watching people pose for pictures while you sit at your table waiting for something to happen.

My FAVORITE wedding of all time was dry and just kept things moving. It had a games during "cocktail hour" with hor d'oeuvres, then you moved into the dinning hall, ate and heard a few speeches, then the dance floor was outside and the DJ was really great. I would have never put it together like that, but it totally worked and I had a blast.

Every Federal or state park wedding, or one in a museum, famous library , or sculpture park has been fun, though dry because of the location. I would do each again. ☹️ crap py weddings: when the wedding party goes for p pics after the ceremony and is away 1-1.5 hours. Any with more than 1.5 hours between the ceremony and reception. Days and months because of something like clvid are fine. But 1 more, We found the perfect ceremony place and the perfect reception, but they are 10 hours apart? No, nor 4 nor 6. This delay is a huge blot that takes your place fro perfect to undesirable. And poor choices where smaller and older and the handicapped must stand on a rocky beach then move to a second hour standing
at a cocktail table ( with a stool 6-8 inches to get onto), may all leave before dinner starts, for the planner's lack of consideration.
Dry, but an otherwise fine party, is no problem.

We are hiring a bartender who also does mocktails! You can choose 2-3 drinks including a his & hers. Ours is an outdoor wedding but most our guests are from church or friends of my dads who is a pastor so of course.. more pastors haha I think we have a total of 8 pastors attending..! So no alcoholic & no dance floors for us. Just make sure you hire a really good DJ and seat everyone accordingly so can have conversations going and just have things or guests to do to fill gaps!

In my family and social circle, dry weddings do not fly... but I did attend one dry wedding where the bride and groom were Mormon, and yes, I did have fun. I think it's a know-your-crowd thing