what do you mean..you pay for food and if you have an open bar you pay for the booze. if you have a cash bar you don't. Id ont' get why this is so hard for people to grasp. honestly it's ok if cousin franny has to buy her own sloe gin fizzes
When you book a hall, everything is one price, the food, open bar, cake (at least mine was), cocktail hour, vienesse hour. We didn't have separate bills for things. I personally do not think is ok for my guests to have to bring extra money to pay for drinks.
I've been to West Coast weddings, weddings in the mid-Atlantic and New England, as well as the midwest (Ohio), and while they were all different in terms of reception, they did all have open bar.
I've always wanted to go to a Southern Southern wedding - I know they are quite different usually (not usually a sit-down dinner, either served or buffet). Since we've talked about proper etiquette here quite a bit lately, I do remember one that I was invited to with an old coworker of mine. The invitation came in the mail w/no reply card (the old way of doing it) so I sent back a handwritten note saying that I wouldn't be able to attend. Talking later with my coworker, she said so many of her friends had NO idea how to respond since there was no reply card LOL. I told her that I was fortunate to learn proper etiquette when I was growing up and it also helped that I read the etiquette book that dh was required to read when he was a midshipmen at the Naval Academy (If you ever want a good laugh, that's a good one - I remember cracking up at one part that said, "Make sure you freshen your lipstick and makeup and greet your husband at the door when he comes home from work."
Anyway, sorry to go off on a tangent. While most of the weddings I went to had similar traditions or styles, I wouldn't at all call them "predictable."
Well we don't have huge "halls' like you do AND for the record the theater I work at is also in the wedding industry and we host an average of one/two weddings a weekend this summer and there's no way an open bar is included . no. freaking way. If a bride and groom were to choose to have an open bar the bar tab would be 'kept' all night and the total of drinsk served added to the final bill.
but whatev...just makes me glad I live where I live all over again.
I had an open bar and our bill was most definitely separate from the food bill. We paid per head, and had many heads that were not old enough to drink alcohol so we didn't have to pay for them.
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I personally do not think is ok for my guests to have to bring extra money to pay for drinks.
I've been to West Coast weddings, weddings in the mid-Atlantic and New England, as well as the midwest (Ohio), and while they were all different in terms of reception, they did all have open bar.
I've always wanted to go to a Southern Southern wedding - I know they are quite different usually (not usually a sit-down dinner, either served or buffet). Since we've talked about proper etiquette here quite a bit lately, I do remember one that I was invited to with an old coworker of mine. The invitation came in the mail w/no reply card (the old way of doing it) so I sent back a handwritten note saying that I wouldn't be able to attend. Talking later with my coworker, she said so many of her friends had NO idea how to respond since there was no reply card LOL. I told her that I was fortunate to learn proper etiquette when I was growing up and it also helped that I read the etiquette book that dh was required to read when he was a midshipmen at the Naval Academy (If you ever want a good laugh, that's a good one - I remember cracking up at one part that said, "Make sure you freshen your lipstick and makeup and greet your husband at the door when he comes home from work."
Anyway, sorry to go off on a tangent. While most of the weddings I went to had similar traditions or styles, I wouldn't at all call them "predictable."
Well we don't have huge "halls' like you do AND for the record the theater I work at is also in the wedding industry and we host an average of one/two weddings a weekend this summer and there's no way an open bar is included . no. freaking way. If a bride and groom were to choose to have an open bar the bar tab would be 'kept' all night and the total of drinsk served added to the final bill.
but whatev...just makes me glad I live where I live all over again.
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