I'd rather serve no alcohol at all than not to have some left over afterwards. I mean, it's a wedding, ferchrissakes! Whatever flows should flow freely, imo!
Exactly. I go to weddings for the couple AND to eat and drink. If I am going out for the evening, which I rarely do with the kids now, I want to enjoy myself. I would like to have a drink and if I decide to wait awhile and then there is nothing left, I would be a little upset.
fwiw,we had the hardest time trying to decide if we wanted to invite kids or not to our reception...but considering most of our nieces,nephews were the under 10 set as well as cousins' kids i wanted to see because i did used to babysit them helped decide it being ok.
We had NO kids at our wedding and we made it very clear to all the parents even though we didn't have to as it was just Mr. & Mrs. on the outside and inside envelope of the invitation. I wanted it to be an adult only party and glad that I did because I know as much as I love my kids, I also like a night out where I don't have to spend it cutting up meat and going to the bathroom 100 times-lol!!
and do you impose any sort of penalty or punishment for her leaving the house looking like that? Why can't you check her before she leaves? Even if I can't check my kids personally, my nanny and my dh are here to nix any inappropriate clothing. Of course, we start by not buying anything inappropriate for them to wear.
Not to get too involved in your conversation and I don't know how old your kids are but do you really think that what they leave the house in is what they are wearing all day?
I haven't been to many weddings where there was a cash bar, but I didn't notice that people drank more or less based on whether they were paying for their drinks or not. People who are set on getting tanked will do it whether or not they are paying. Non-drinkers don't start drinking because the booze is free.
My wedding guests drank several bars almost dry at my reception. But these are experienced drinkers- even the locals stayed over in the nearby hotels. It probably helped that we had a nice brunch scheduled the next morning for everyone who stayed over.
Very true. I really could not tell you where the out of towners (only a few) stayed, probably a hotel. We did not have anything the next day but I know alot of people do now.
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and do you impose any sort of penalty or punishment for her leaving the house looking like that? Why can't you check her before she leaves? Even if I can't check my kids personally, my nanny and my dh are here to nix any inappropriate clothing. Of course, we start by not buying anything inappropriate for them to wear.
Carole
I haven't been to many weddings where there was a cash bar, but I didn't notice that people drank more or less based on whether they were paying for their drinks or not. People who are set on getting tanked will do it whether or not they are paying. Non-drinkers don't start drinking because the booze is free.
My wedding guests drank several bars almost dry at my reception. But these are experienced drinkers- even the locals stayed over in the nearby hotels. It probably helped that we had a nice brunch scheduled the next morning for everyone who stayed over.
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