Alcohol at Rehearsal Dinner

Re: Alcohol at Rehearsal Dinner

• alinaandjared

  

  September 2009 edited December 2011

  we had 109 at our wedding and 60 at the rehearsal dinner-- lots and lots of out of staters and even about a dozen from outside the US. We had SUCH a hard time find a location to hold us all.... onto your question however- we had beer (2 24 packs there were mostly left over) + I think a few bottles of wine all together--- I don't recall exactly how the beer was set up, I want to say everything was in nice metal buckets with ice underneath? Something along those lines. It was at a Chinese restaurant (glad everyone but me loves chinese food) and they had a full stocked bar everyone was able to see and NO ONE walked over there-- I guess they just assumed no bar was included if the beer and wine was set elsewhere. I think 4-5 bottles of wine and a 24 pack of beer (or 2 12 packs) is more than sufficient. Thats a max of 100 dollars on alcohol.... well, nevermind- can you bring your own? where exactly is the dinner? We were able to buy the alcohol from the restaurant but not at shelf price, so it was like $2 a beer instead of $3.50 a bottle or what have you. I imagine you will be able to feed 19 people for $25 a piece, right?

  

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• ljo128

  

  September 2009 edited December 2011

  We've narrowed the location down to 2 potential places, and neither will let us bring our own. The food will be about $300 including taxes/gratuity. Both locations are amenable to us buying bottles of wine from them ($20/a piece!) and giving them a bar limit. Beers at one place average $5 each, at the other place $3 each.

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• YouandMe912

  

  September 2009 edited December 2011

  we aren't paying for alcohol (as of now) we budgeted for 60 people and seem to have about 45 it's 22pp without alc so we told the restaurant to kindly let guests know if they try to order an alcoholic drink that they would have to get it at the bar for the night. we too have an open bar the following day for 6 hours. they'll survive!!!! lol hth

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• bailey66

  

  September 2009 edited December 2011

  seeing as my mother in law to be is paying for the rehearsal dinner, she asked that if they wanted a alcoholic drink, that person pays for it. i respect that. most of us arent drinking that night. so i say do what feels right for you. HTH

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• ljo128

  

  September 2009 edited December 2011

  Thanks for sharing everyone! I think we'll plan on a few bottles of wine on the tables and then a pre-set dollar limit on the bar. That should keep us under budget.In a related question - several of you mentioned much larger rehearsal invite lists. Did you include all the OOT guests?

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• BelhurstBride member

  

  September 2009 edited December 2011

  I was late to the thread... We've been to several RD at restaurants were responsible for their own alcohol purchases. It really didn't phase me; although it sounds like you have a great plan. You could even just provide alcohol for the cocktail hour/period and have guests pay for their own during dinner. We did include our OOT guests. It was something that was important to us. We had our RD catered and in my parents back yard, doing so made it easy for us to afford such a large number of guests. We liked being able to hang out and talk with the people who traveled to celebrate with us. (cause that wedding day flies!)

  
  
  

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