Quick question - at your RD, did you host all of the alcoholic beverages or did each individual person pay for their booze?
My parents have thrown 2 RDs for my older brothers in the past and told me it got VERY expensive when alcohol was included. I think they said they paid for the food and non-alcoholic drinks but everyone else paid for their own alcohol... and that alone ran the bill to $1500 without the booze. I don't want FIs parents to pay anything near that much.
So what have you all done in the past?