The dumbest rules you have at your venue

"Dripless candles only."

We are getting married at an historic site therefore we can't:

Have flower pedals, no balloons, no confetti, no red drinks (including cranberry--there's goes the cranberry vodka lol)

My venue is actually pretty laxed. I dont really understand why there is a $10 corking fee each bottle that we bring in. Most of my friends and family hate wine, including me. I do love Mead (honey wine). They cant get mead so we are supplying but they are going to charge us $10/per bottle to open them. If they through all the bottles thats going to come to $240. They also dont allow glasses to be carried around. So no glass bottled beer or cider.

Kathy - I can understand no tape/holes to a certain degree. If those rules are in place and the location has bare, plain walls, the venue owner should consider having hooks or something to hold up decorations (like lights).

Wow after reading these, i love my venue even more. It is all wooden and stone inside with stone walls for candles to sit in and they have it decorated permanently so I dont have to. They provide candles for the tables and candlelabras.Their only rule is no bubbles indoors (bc of the floor) so they need to be thrown away upon entering the reception. I asked about real vs fake rose petals and which colors were allowed and she laughed at me and said real is fine in any color and if they are fake, they will pick them up afterwards!

I am sorry, I didn't mean to refer the rules dumb, I should had said the rules are odd. Wow lucky dme!!!

Good idea dks

My main issue with the dripless candles only rule was does that mean no candles in lanters/enclosed spaces? No tea lights confined to a glass votive. It doesn't make much difference to me as I can always buy the battery-operated ones.

That makes me to check into candles rule for my reception! Thanks

Water soluble confetti is a go for my venue! I know some of you mentioned confetti restrictions you might wanna check it out. :-)

Children's plate is only off of the adult price. Meaning with our package choice, each child is $85....WTF!!!!!!

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(it isn't posting when I write "fifteen percent off"...weird)

Ouch, that is a lot for a children's plate... especially considering many kids barely touch their food.

Yea that is too much for a kid plate :-/ I didn't want children at my wedding but my FMIL wanted me to invite 6 children. Then now she wanted me to have 100 guests instead 75 guests, she is killing me with my budget ahhh

Yeah I know, so it is pretty much like throwing away money, but we won't be given chairs for the kids unless we pay for a meal for them. And we are really close to all the kids in our families and my mom, my sister, and I are all nannies, so that adds on another 4 kids... 15 in all... thank GOD my parents said they will handle it.

Wow!! that is a lot! I was a nanny for 3 boys last summer and let just say, I realized 2 kids will be enough lol.

Caterering Venues are making a fortune off lil kids. When I was working for a caterer, we had a special menu for the kids and we charged $10 total per kid!

I am planning on getting the ribbon wands that Wilton makes, in fact my girlfriend is getting married in September and I am doing her wedding, helping plan and doing the food and decorating for it. (great training for my Bridal Consultant future and I get to use my catering skills I grew up with too). We are going to get two or three packs of ribbon wands and add ribbon in her colors and then take them off and save them for my wedding and add my colors. Then I will have them for my business and another bride who might want to use them. Lots of recycling and sharing gonna be going on.

As of now, we are planning on putting a tent in our backyard and setting up tables and renting everything (unless I buy everything and own it by then for my own business) - rentals for 50? Huge investment. we'll see.

@Danie

"I dont really understand why there is a $10 corking fee each bottle that we bring in."

This one is easy to answer. It covers the cost of the server; the cost of washing the glassware; and most importantly, their liquor liability insurance, which is VERY expensive and required. They also loose revenue if you bring your own wine.

Let me say that I am personally not a fan of rules, but as the saying goes "It only takes one person" and they can dictate rules for everyone else. The Red Wine rule is because it stains concrete and looks like like a crime scene for the next bride even after extensive pressure washing.