That’s great before open bars costs $3,000-$4,000 dollars for 100 guests and now venues have started charging only slightly less for beer/wine. To serve beer/wine only at my daughter’s cocktail hour and reception was $2700 for 98 people BEFORE tips and bartending fees. Insane price. So they are doing a dry wedding and will serve no alcohol.
Cash bar is the epitome of bad taste. I once went to a wedding where this was the case and imagine my surprise when the buffet also ran out of food and non-alcoholic beverages before half of the guests were through the buffet line. I was someone's "plus-one" to that wedding and we were relieved to leave the wedding and actually escape to get food at a restaurant afterward. I mean, clearly, the couple was not thinking of their guests when they planned that shindig and honestly, pretty as some of the decor was, they could clearly not afford to have a proper wedding and invite 300+ guests as they did. Tacky, tacky! LOL
That’s great before open bars costs $3,000-$4,000 dollars for 100 guests and now venues have started charging only slightly less for beer/wine. To serve beer/wine only at my daughter’s cocktail hour and reception was $2700 for 98 people BEFORE tips and bartending fees. Insane price. So they are doing a dry wedding and will serve no alcohol.
Lol, I always thought open bar vs. cash bar was obvious. I like the alternative David gives for those who don't have that kind of cash flow.
THANKS DAVID FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTION!!!
Cash bar is the epitome of bad taste. I once went to a wedding where this was the case and imagine my surprise when the buffet also ran out of food and non-alcoholic beverages before half of the guests were through the buffet line. I was someone's "plus-one" to that wedding and we were relieved to leave the wedding and actually escape to get food at a restaurant afterward. I mean, clearly, the couple was not thinking of their guests when they planned that shindig and honestly, pretty as some of the decor was, they could clearly not afford to have a proper wedding and invite 300+ guests as they did. Tacky, tacky! LOL
Yes, they really should have skipped the 'plus-ones'