Importance of alcohol?

I think something needs to be offered. I hate cash bars at weddings but understand them when people are on a budget. You should definitely offer something though

Yes-- I would at least have wine and beer available during dinner. They may not think its important, but your guests will!

I think limited open bar is a great option. Even just beer and wine- 1 option of beer, 1 red wine and 1 white wine is PLENTY!

I think limited bar is fine. IME at dry weddings guests don't stay very long.

I would have alcohol, imho. I went to one wedding without it, even no option for cash bar. It honestly was very dull, and I heard a lot of complaints. Not everyone drinks, most of my side of the family doesn't. But on special occasions they will have a glass of wine or two. His side of the family, oh yeah, big drinkers! We are doing open bar for three hours, after that if they wont more they are on their own to pay for it.

If it were up to FH and me there wouldn't be any alcohol at our wedding besides the champagne toast. But, the rest of our family members would be a little cranky :p We have a wine & beer bar - absolutely no hard alcohol - along with non-alcoholic drinks.

We put $1000 toward the bar & when that runs out, that's it. They can drink soda & go out for drinks after if they didn't get enough.

I think some alcohol needs to be served. A limited time open bar is fine and after that perhaps serve just wine, beer and sodas. We're having a full open bar the entire time - but then again most of our family and friends (including us) are drinkers so we wouldn't have it any other way.

Beer, wine, a sig drink are plenty, honestly.

Wine for the dinner is the least you could consider. Guests give you a gift, they would feel hipped without feeling their meal is complete. I am guessing your venue requires you to purchase their wine?

It is not important to my family at all but it is FH's family. FMIL was floored she found that pretty much all people coming to my wedding cermony in my family don't drink. My brother and his wife do, but generally not in front of our parents. My SIL likes to say she doesn't drink, and my brother has pretty much stopped. He was a bartender of 15 years so when I have wine question I ask him.

We are having an open bar all night. FH and I are both drinkers (MUCH less now than before- we met at a bar!). About half our guests drink, from occasional drinkers to heavier ones. Michelle is right though, people who don't normally drink will have a drink or two because it's a special occasion!

We are having a lame wedding then because we are not offering alcohol at our wedding. We don't drink, want kids there, and it's a small backyard wedding for like 75-100 people. I've pretty much put it out to most of my guests. FH is stern about this but said we could have champagne for toasting and that was it!

I'm not a big drinker by any stretch of the imagination, but I always like to have a couple mixed drinks or glasses of wine at a wedding. It's a CELEBRATION.

We have social drinkers on both sides of our families so it's assumed there will be alcohol.

We're having kids at the wedding.

We can't afford to have an open bar, so we're opting for a cash bar. If I come across some money before then, we might start a tab and see how it goes.

I think alcohol is very important. It doesn't matter what type of alcohol as long as there is something provided or available. Heck, I haven't even been to a baby shower that didn't have some type of alcohol.

Hmmm... We are having a completely dry wedding. We both have a lot of recovering alcoholics on both sides of the family. And we aren't drinkers at all

I would offer the limited open bar.

I before thought I did not want to have alcohol at my wedding also until I went to two weddings that were dry. The guests left early and really changed the wedding. At the one wedding, there was a bar in the reception hall so her bridal party was gone half the wedding which was so rude of them and even the groom was missing for abit there.

We aren't big drinkers, and we leave for our honeymoon at like 3am the day after the wedding...so for us, although we did want to at least make drinks available for people, we are not paying for everything. We will have a keg of beer (nothing fancy, just Bud Light), and then we will have some different types of wine. If someone wants anything else they can pay for it, but if they get beer or wine it is on us. I don't expect anyone to get crazy drunk or anything, but I think it lightens the atmosphere when people have a drink or two and can "unwind" a little.

I do not drink at all, but I think my guests might like it. We did not want to spend a lot so we are doing Sangria pitchers and two types of beer, one light and one regular beer type. FMIL said we have to have wine so she is buying some. (whatver). You don't have to do a lot, you can keep it under 50$ and have a good amount if you come up with just a limited choice amount.

(the Sangria for instance, will be about 50$ for a huge pitcher that will probably have leftovers. The beer Is about 30$ for two cases. If you have someone who can serve drinks you can get premium boxed wines (they are good, I swear) and have them under the bar for the server to pour and also kegs of your beer choice for them to serve to your guests.

Since we are having a small wedding (50ppl) we are doing bottles and letting them choose.