My Fiance and I are very recently engaged and beginning to look at venues for the reception. Knowing our personalities and invitees, we have already decided we will do an open bar throughout the reception. Yesterday a friend said at her wedding they did the same but instead of having the bar open in the reception hall, they had cocktail servers throughout their entire event that took the orders and basically brought back the drinks (reminds me a little of when I'm in Vegas at the casinos). My thought was "gosh that must suck to have to wait for your drink" but she said that guests had commented to her that it felt like a more high end affair to have such personal attention. She also said that it ran her a lot less to have the additional staff than the open bar since so much less ended up getting consumed as groups were not hanging out at the bar all night. She also didn't have to deal with any out of control drunken invitees. I have yet to be at a wedding that served in this matter. What do you think? And, since we are just beginning to look at venues, do you think venues/caterers would cooperate with an idea like this? Thanks for the insight and opinions!