Alcohol Costs

Since our budget is tight we decided to so our specialty drinks free anything else guest would have to pay.

The plan so far is to provide wine & beer for cocktail hour and dinner. Then a limit at the bar..when it's reached it becomes a cash bar. Still a process....

We are having a host bar - we felt it would be easier this way as some of our guests don't drink or have a limited taste, and we are ending up with about 30 fewer guests than originally planned.

We are providing everyone 2 drink tickets and the rest will be cash bar. Drinks are reasonably priced at the venue so I dont feel bad asking our guests to buy their own drinks. Plus we have alot of pregnant or new moms coming, so I figure they will share their drink tickets and more drinks for others haha

Our reception is at a restaurant so a little different but every guest will get a glass of sparking wine for a toast, bottles of white and red will be avaliable on each table & we have set a cost ceiling with the owners for alcohol. They will notify us when we are getting close to the alcohol budget we have set and we can handle from there. Most of our family will be more than satisfied with the table wines but we wanted the option for cocktails as well

We did a host bar. We knew a lot of them didn't drink but we didn't want to feel like we were limiting those who did.

We gave each guest a drink ticket. Then we had $4 drinks for the entire night. We didn't want anyone taking advantage of an open bar (definitely had some guests who would) but we also wanted drinks to be reasonably priced.

We did a complete cash bar for our wedding. All of our guests paid for their own drinks. My husband and I had a tab for ourselves

We are also doing drink tickets; a lot of our guests don't drink so it didn't make sense to us to have a cash bar and not meet the minimum $. We are offering two tickets per guest after that they will buy whichever drink they want.