Sober weddings?

View Quoted Comment Oh my goodness is that possible? To be responsible for them drunk driving?
I've never heard of such a thing.

View Quoted Comment No, it is not possible with wedding liability insurance. Most will protect you in the even of alcohol-related incidents.

View Quoted Comment Yes, unfortunately it is a real thing. People are sue happy. If you provide the alcohol and don’t cut someone off, they get in an accident, etc, you can be held responsible. So can the bartender(s). Our venue also has a couple police officers that come for the last 3-4 hours. This also keeps us and the caterer/bartenders from being held responsible if something terrible were to happen.
It’s a sad world we live in when people who make poor choices can hold you responsible.

View Quoted Comment The risk of being sued is a poor reason to have a cash bar. Cash or open bar, you are still providing alcohol. You are still liable because you made the decision to have alcohol available, whether you're making the guests pay or you are paying.

How can you protect yourself?

- Purchase event liability insurance

- Hire a certified bartender (some are even independently insured)

- Have a dry wedding

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40 rack - ouch. I have those in my extended family and I'm seriously just not going to invite them. But I think we are still going to have a few "normal" drinkers who we'll have some wine for, and the rest will be mocktails and other NA drinks for the majority of us. It's going to be like 6 people who might drink.

Love what you said about solution-based vs. FEAR.

I hope it all works out for you and FH!

View Quoted Comment ^I agree with this, esp the sneaking in part...I’ve been the “sneeker-iner” before lol. My cousin had a dry wedding so many of us snuck away to get beverages and snuck them back in. It was dry though because they just didn’t want to pay for it. Wrong or right, I’m positive it will happen.

View Quoted Comment I have been told that self centered fear is the root of all my conflicts with the world. It's has proven to be pretty accurate. My beloved is a normal drinker. And if everyone who drank at our wedding drank like him they would have a single beer each and call it. That would be totally fine with me. It's the blind drunk thing that freaks me out.

Congrats!!! I can’t believe the amount of comments I see on ww about no alcohol or limited alcohol people will leave early. I like to drink but I would never leave a wedding if there wasn’t alcohol. It’s about celebrating two people. Having alcohol can be very triggering. Don’t feel like you need to compromise your soberity to have alcohol for people. If they truly love you they won’t care about the alcohol.

View Quoted Comment Thank you so much for your kind comments.💚