If you can't afford to pay for alcohol for your guests, then you just don't offer alcohol at the reception. Where I'm from (NJ) it is considered extremely rude to ask guests to pay for their drinks.
My per person cost for the reception included 5 hours of open bar. It also included the wedding cake, cocktail hour with passed appetizers, champagne toast, certerpieces for the table, and a few other things. I don't remember actually getting a price for a reception that didn't include an open bar.
<If you can't afford to pay for alcohol for your guests, then you just don't offer alcohol at the reception. Where I'm from (NJ) it is considered extremely rude to ask guests to pay for their drinks. >
While I am not one to love a cash bar why do we keep talking about what "we" as guests think is rude and not rude at a wedding.
I went to a wedding in Vermont/New Hampshire (wedding in one state, reception in the other, not sure which was where though) and there was an open bar. I've also been to as wedding in CT that had an open bar (is CT considered New England?).
I had the strangest flashback reading your post. Being a Newenglandah myself (a "real" one at that, *wink*), I have been lurking on (lurking in? at? against?) your conversations and have been cracking up. My great-aunts, 3 lovely never-married ladies from the Boston area who raised my dad when his
I tried to get my Sacramento bride friend to go out, but she didn't want to, so I went out with the bridal party without her!!! DH couldn't make it to that wedding, so I was free as a bird and I certainly wasn't going to go home at 9:30.
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<If you can't afford to pay for alcohol for your guests, then you just don't offer alcohol at the reception. Where I'm from (NJ) it is considered extremely rude to ask guests to pay for their drinks. >
While I am not one to love a cash bar why do we keep talking about what "we" as guests think is rude and not rude at a wedding.
Why thank you :)
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That's because you're a youngun.
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