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No hard liquor at wedding reception.

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Private User, on October 9, 2013 at 2:08 PM

My fiance and I don't have a lot of money since we have a now 8 month old son. We are planning on getting married this upcoming august but really haven't found anything that isn't what we could consider super expensive and the one decent place we did find has yet to contact us again and its been a couple weeks . Our original idea was to have it at the park here in town and just do the reception in the building that they have. We are going to have around 100 people attending. We toured the building and it has a large kitchen to make our food a keg coolers but we are only allowed to have wine and beer. Do you think this will kill the mood? I am not a drinker since my dad was an alcoholic and my fiance only does it on special occasions. I personally think we should get the place since it is only 400 to rent for the whole day and spend the rest of the money on getting a good photographer a Dj and everything else of a better quality.

I am trying not to stress but it's hard.

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Sasha B. · on October 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM
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We are doing beer, wine and 2 signature drinks to represent us!
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JustMarried'14 · on October 9, 2013 at 6:33 PM
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Our reception will only have beer and wine for alcohol, no signature drinks or hard liquor.
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Cindy Campione · on October 10, 2013 at 9:57 AM
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I think Celia Milton's suggest was a very good one - wine, beer, a sangria or some kind of wine or very light alcoholic punch. But I would go one further and have a non-alcoholic punch and some very pretty pitchers of ice water with lemons and limes sliced up in them for color. And that's it! You have something for everyone.

I'd love to know the venue you're talking about for such a reasonable price. I'd like to tell my brides about it, too!
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Mrs.Rebeiro · on October 10, 2013 at 9:58 AM
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Beer and wine would work for me!
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Private User · on October 10, 2013 at 4:11 PM
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Your plan to host beer and wine all evening sounds perfect! Just don't do any type of cash bar. I went to a wedding this weekend, and there was a very unexpected cash bar. I would have to say about 75% of guests that gave the couple a card ended up taking the cash out of the card to pay for their drinks. Unfortunately the couple found out too late to wisk the cards away with gifts inside.

Your plan Jennifer sounds lovely, and very classy. Congrats on the baby and your wedding!
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Abby · on October 10, 2013 at 5:03 PM
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We're only doing beer and wine to save on alcohol costs. I think it's perfectly fine. And if you really want to save, you don't have to feel obligated to serve any booze at all.
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Brittany · on October 10, 2013 at 11:39 PM
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People will still have fun even if you don't have hard liquor. If they don't, they've got some other issues they need to deal with.
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Tiffany Nash · on October 10, 2013 at 11:53 PM
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Beer and wine are plenty! both of our families don't drink wine so we're just having beer! we don't want hard liquor either because we have certain family members that get too out of hand.

Edited to add a Congratulations! I have a 10 month old so I understand how things are tight with the budget for the wedding. I also have a 5 year old daughter so I know how it goes having kids
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Anne · on October 11, 2013 at 12:27 AM
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We won't be having any alcohol at our wedding, even though I know my family would drink. I don't really care if they are annoyed that there won't be anything for them lol!
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