No Alcohol Reception

If you can afford all of the stuff for a cute lemonade bar or italian soda or whatever then you can afford to provide alcohol. Have limited choices and depending on your guest list if you can bring your own you will only spend a few hundred dollars and no one will talk about you behind your back. As someone who doesn't like lemonade unless it contains a little vodka I would be annoyed to go to a wedding with a lemonade bar with no booze.

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My venue has a cash bar only, wasnt our choice. But it works for some people in the families.

@Sarah - then you and FH just pick up the tab at the end of the night.

@Sarah, It was your choice by choosing a venue that only has a cash bar....

@Sarah you can still pick up the bill. That is called a consumption based bar where you pay per drink instead of a flat rate. I do not agree with cash bars. That is worse than a dry wedding in my opinion because you are asking guests to pay for things at your wedding.

Then Sarah? You pick up the tab.

I am not having alcohol at my reception either. I am thinking of doing a hot chocolate/coffee bar instead. Since you are having a November wedding that would work well for you as well! There are lots of options besides the normal marshmallow toppings. Try cool whip, peppermint sticks etc. If you search it on pinterest there are lots of creative ideas!

Someone suggested a dry bar. If they mean the kind that you get blow outs in, I'm actually not opposed.

Oh, but also have alcohol.

But hot chocolate with a little bit of booze is MUCH better!

The one fun thing I put in my lemonade is vodka, just saying.

You said 'I am short on time so I don't have much time to scroll for the answers I'm looking for "

I get that this moves quickly. But you freely admitted you aren't actually looking for advice or help but validation. In which case. Don't bother to ask random Internet strangers. We aren't here to validate you.

We are here to actually help. And guess what. Validation =/= help.

Marshmallows do not make up for no no booze. Never. Ever.

Most of the other comments have covered why you shouldn't do this, but I did want to bring something up. When I started here I thought the reasoning of "sneaking alcohol in" was absurd. I was texting my friend about my wedding, she asked offhand if we were having alcohol, I told her what we were offering. She replied with this.

Also, my mom (who rarely drinks) told me she snuck vodka into a family wedding recently. It really does happen. And I would never want my wedding to be described as "it nearly killed me".

I hate when people equate juice to alcohol. I am not five. I do not want juice.

This thread is so gross on so many levels.

There are no fun or appropriate replacements for alcohol.

Having a licensed bartenders is a reasonable expectation, and $400 isn't that expensive.

You need to wait 1 year, save up more money or drastically cut down your plans. My wedding only will have 40 guests but guess what. They will be hosted graciously with free drinks and food.

Waiting to hear this "late lunch" starts at 4 or 5.

OP doesn't sound like she cares. She wants to hear that dry weddings are amazing and super fun times.

Host your guests properly. If you can't do that financially, you have too many guests.

Doing a dry wedding? That's fine. Just remember you're now liable for any guest who gets drunk out of their trunk bar, drives home from your BFE reception and gets in an accident. Without a licensed bartender with liability insurance, you claim liability. Refusing to provide alcohol won't stop people from drinking.

I'm not looking for validation o n my opinion. I do not need validation. I am looking for opinions and suggestions on what I asked. If you have a different opinion, great! I'd love to hear it! If you think you are helping, I appreciate that. What I mean by "I don't have time to look for the answers" means exactly that, I did not really have a ton of time to scroll through all the posts about dry weddings to look at comments. If you feel that asking the question was inappropriate, I apologize.

Don't apologize for asking questions, you're more than allowed to do that. If the ladies on this site get annoyed of seeing the same posts, then all they have to do is keep scrolling and not reply.