Milk and cookie bar?

I loves me a good cookie, but it will never replace a glass of wine; I'd add at least beer and wine to this. As Amanda said, bartenders will do their job, especially if they know a lot of guests are underage.

Cookie shots are labor intensive and expensive, but the basic idea is cute. One of my venue uses tiny milk bottles for this, and it's cute as anything.

I understand what you're saying about having beer and wine but honestly only 2, or maybe 3, guests that are old enough to drink actually would and those guests are driving over an hour to and from. Besides because almost all of the guests are under 21,we aren't having a bartender. My parents were nice enough to let me use the farm as my venu and I'm not putting the liability on them if a minor would happen to get a hold of it. My reception is at 1:00 on a saturday afternoon. Thats a little early to start drinking, isnt it?

I'm with Matt (of course) but I just wanted to add that no, it's not early at all. How about serving punch, one (even lightly) spiked and one not?

^^ By 11am on a Saturday I would probably have had a mimosa and DH would have had a bloody mary.

We went to a wedding 2 weeks ago that started at 11am. There was an hour between ceremony and backyard reception. We stopped for a beer. We both probably had 3 beers over or 5 hours at the reception. No one got drunk. We knew we had an hour and a half drive home.

@Mary, trust adults to be adults and not over do it.

I think that people aren't being very nice about your no alcohol deal! It's your wedding, you're underage- you don't have to have alcohol! May not be as wild as some weddings get but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Nothing wrong with it

On my wedding day I expect to be having champagne for breakfast and lunch. What's this 'to early to start drinking' shit?

I dunno JoBella, we like to say "It's noon somewhere."

It's never too early for Champagne.

I think you all are missing the major point here. It's a liability issue and if anything we're to happen, it'd come back on my parents. Besides, the reception isn't going to be more than maybe an hour or two. There will be plenty of time for adults rto go get drinks afterwards.

So here's the thing. You're wrong.

You can choose to accept your wrongness. Or you can adjust yourself and move on.

No amount of rationalizing to US will make you not wrong.

So either accept that your wrong and move on. Or adjust.

Your choice.

As the two of you are under 21, I honestly find it perfectly acceptable to not serve alcohol and I've never said that before ever. You can't legally drink, most of your guests are underage....it's almost rude to expect alcohol. I might include a line on your invitations like "As the future Mr. and Mrs. are both under 21, the reception will not include alcoholic beverages." The people who simply cannot party without alcohol won't come and they really can't complain about your decision since your age is indesputable. My dad's first wedding was a dry wedding and people left when they found out....I'd just nip that in the bud and save yourself money by letting people know ahead of time not to expect booze. As for a milk and cookies bar, I don't know how you keep the milk cold...But I'd just hit up Pinterest for cute ideas. Personally, mini cookies seems like a great option. Good luck!

Wow, so disappointed in the tone of many of these comments. Pinterest is a legitimate place to look for ideas, if you can't look at inspiration photos and figure out if it's something feasible for you, that's your problem. My wedding coordinator had me start there. And seriously, don't have alcohol if you don't want. If your guests care more about drinking than celebrating your wedding, they're jerks. I'm having alcohol at my wedding but it was a real struggle for me because I have some alcoholics among my guests and even someone who often gets violent when drunk. I would hope that people would have respected my decision not to have alcohol if that is what I had decided. I wouldn't want most of these commenters at my wedding.

@lemon, I am sure the feeling is mutual, that we rude commenters wouldn't want to be there

Not going to touch the booze discussion except to say that on the Monday we leave for our honeymoon, I plan to sit down on the plane for our 7am flight and request a Bloody Mary. Sorry I'm not.

I love the suggestion of ice cream versus milk though! I have never drank a glass of milk- it grosses me out- so I think options where the guests could just take the cookie (or just take the milk, if that's their preference) is better than combining the two for everyone.

I mean, last weekend I went to brunch at 10am and had a bloody mary and 3 mimosas. But whatever. I think the ice cream and cookies is a great idea, but I agree it's more of a passed dessert type thing.

I'm with twostep, I hate milk, so I would like to have my options!

Any mention of a dry wedding in a post and people get so obsessed with that one aspect. That wasn't even the point of the original post. If the couple getting married is underage and the afternoon wedding is being held at a family property, as a guest I actually wouldn't expect alcohol to be served.

I do like the idea of ice cream instead of milk though, with chocolate chip cookie

Amen amen I say to you O&S (as usual)! I thought the same thing when I read the suggestion: "As the future Mr. and Mrs. are both under 21, the reception will not include alcoholic beverages." My take was "Even though the future Mr. and Mrs. are both under 21, they are not too young to learn to be good hosts."

Listen, you know your guest list. If you know for a fact that no one will want alcohol, then okay. I know for a fact that a lot of my guests WOULD leave if (or just talk shit about me the entire time) if there was no alcohol, so I'm having an open bar. However, I realize that you didn't ask for comments about whether or not to serve alcohol, so I'll get to the point of your post now.

I love the idea of the jelly mason jars with ice cream and the cookie crumbles on top. With cute paper straws. And then maybe have the cookies separate, but displayed right beside.

"1pm too early to start drinking?!?!" Don't you ever let those words come out of your mouth again OP.

For those who are upset over me saying it's too early to drink, where I'm from that's just not heard of. None of the bars in town open until 6 at the earliest and the restaurant in town that serves adult drinks doesn't start serving them until well after 3.