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Alcohol?

kbunkweddingkbunkwedding member
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in Maine
I'm posting this here as I believe that it is different in different regions. 
How are you all handling alcohol? We had considered doing beer and wine for the cocktail hour and cash bar after. Our vendors, for the rehearsal dinner and the reception, have both said that cash bars are common (Wells) but we wanted to provide some alcohol. They've also both suggested we consider drink tickets to prevent people from drinking very quickly at the beginning but I'm just not sure.
My brother spent $3,000 on alcohol alone at his wedding and we just don't have the cash for that. What do you all think?
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Re: Alcohol?

  • chrispygalchrispygal
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    edited December 2011
    Cash bars are common around here, meaning the northeast in general since I'm from MA. Many do the cocktail hour and I've also seen 2 bottles of wine per table for dinner. This is a nice gesture and enough for most people I think.
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  • jessicabessicajessicabessica member
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    edited December 2011
    I agree with chrispy that hosting the cocktail hour and then wine on the tables is nice.  I've seen that at a wedding in the Boston area, but I am a wine drinker, so that was fine by me.  I'm not a big fan of drink tickets, and I don't really see how that would prevent people from drinking a lot at the beginning.  I think that hosting something is nice, but you don't have to go over budget to make sure people can order their favorite drink.  

    We had our RD in a park--we invited everyone, because all our guests traveled--and we didn't have alcohol.  Our caterer didn't have a liquor license, so we'd have to deal with that, and plus the park would have required us to have 1-2 off duty police officers there.  We had an open bar for our reception.  Both in Freeport.  
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  • kkchisholmkkchisholm
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    edited December 2011
    Ive never been to an open bar here. We had a cash bar in wells.
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  • hcorr34hcorr34 member
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    edited December 2011
    My venue allowed me to designate a certain amount of money rather than saying just the cocktail hour.  I said $500, and once that was gone, then it became cash bar.  I just found out 2 weeks ago that the $500 lasted until about half way through the reception, which I thought was pretty awesome.  We offered beer, wine, and margaritas (it had to do with our theme).  Anyone wanting something different had to pay. 
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  • staceymhansonstaceymhanson
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    edited December 2011
    We did a cash bar, our friend spent 10k on  a open bar! Thats a bit crazy!!!
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