I don't have final numbers yet but we having invited about 170 people, and I think our wedding could be anywhere in the vicinity of 130-150 people. We plan on doing food stations and food and alcohol is really important to us. The one thing I am torn on, is that even though we are paying for an open bar, the venue wants to charge us to have bottles of wine served at the table, having it not be included in our all you can drink package. I find this to be a complete rip off and am shocked by it but it seems common in the area.
I am not exactly sure how much it is per bottle of wine but I know their per glass of premium wine (which to be honest isn't very premium) is $9 and I feel like the bottles were in the $30-$50 range. I spoke to them about bringing our own wine (for table service only), which if we did I think would be in the $17-$20 mark, as I know a wine vendor who specializing in South African wines, which are my favorite, and they said they would do it for $10 corkage fee.
This would be adding about another $2250 onto our alcohol bill, which just seems absurd to me since we are paying for all you can drink at $72.54 per person (this does not include food). Part of me thinks because we are doing stations and people are going to be up and about anyway, that they can go get their own wine (or whatever it is they would like to drink) but the other part of me thinks that's unappealing and not sure how people would take that/judge that.
Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
