Dry Wedding

No need to explain yourself to anyone! If they are important enough for you to invite them, they should respect your choice to have a dry wedding without explanation. You don’t announce if you have an open bar, so why announce if dry!? You do you girl! Us brides have your back!!

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Remember this is YOUR wedding NOT theirs and in the end, you're the one who will remember it years to come. not them

I wouldn’t announce it at all. You don’t want people planning ahead and bringing their own supply.

Don't announce anything. If you start to make a big deal about it instead of being the normal thing it is, others will too and bring alcohol which you are trying to avoid. People attend nonalcoholic events everyday without any issue and no prior announcements. Your wedding should be no different.

In my opinion, there are only 2 acceptable reasons to have a dry wedding.


And it looks like you meet one of those.
1. You and or your fiancé is sober 2. It violates you and the majority of your families religious beliefs.
This can be listed on the invite and wedding website. I do think it is important for people to know it will be a dry wedding. If your family chooses not to come and to support you and your family’s sobriety, then you wouldn’t want them there anyway.
Make sure they know this before booking their accommodations.