Bar Options

View quoted message I think that's a great option and totally agree with the less stress part!

We are doing a host bar. Majority of our guests all drink lol Only looked into packages with open bar. Just less stress.

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I think that's a great idea and a great compromise

We are going with a host bar for ours. Reason being, there are too many different tastes among the guests (estimated number about 100 total) and it was too difficult to accommodate that. At first we had planned to have a bottle of red and a bottle of white wine on each table, but at 13 tables we decided there might be a good amount of that wasted. So we decided on a host bar that would allow guests to get a bottle of wine and bring it to the table if they wanted it. This way not as much is wasted.

View quoted message I think that's a great idea!

We are buying one drink for each person, and people are paying for everything after the first drinks

We can't afford an open bar, so cash bar, we may just have our signature drinks free instead, we have three pets so we will have two drinks and a shot. My cat's name is Pablo so may do a tequila shot for him, Tyson will be my signature drink the WOOWOO and my FH's will be Gunner our other dog and his signature drink is an Old fashions.

View quoted message I think that's a great compromise to have a open bar for cocktail hour and then cash bar for the reception! Great idea!

We’ve opted to have an open bar for cocktail hour , and the rest will be cash bar. Realistically we can’t afford an open bar, and I would rather put the money from that towards bringing more guests

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I think that's a great compromise to have your guests have a few free drinks to start

We actually really lucked out, our venue drinks are only 6.50$ for any type of drink (beer, wine, hard liquor) so we are opting for a cash bar with a couple drink tickets per person. We figure the price is fair I wouldnt feel bad paying that price but also still giving our friends and family a couple free drinks.

View quoted message Definitely took the stress down a lot.

View quoted message I think that's a great idea for everyone to have 6 drink tickets!

View quoted message I think that's a great idea if you know your guests don't drink alot

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That's great that you had everything paid for before the big day!

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One-bill policy isn't too bad!

Since our reception is a bit different than what a wedding normally does, we decided to do a host bar. We have a minimum spend of $4,500 and food for everyone will barely cover half. So I did some math, found the average price of drinks at our dinner venue and came up with the number 6. Each of the 30 people invited will have 6 drink tickets where they can get any drink they want for no cost. This does not include people who do not drink possibly giving away their drink tickets, which most likely will happen.

We went with an open bar. I only looked at venues that had all inclusive pa kaged. I didn't want the surprise at the end of the night. We had everything paid for before the day. We had people who hardly drank and some that really enjoyed the open bar lol

We’re doing a host bar since we’re only inviting 50 guests and they’re mostly family that don’t drink much! 🍻🥂

We would've done an open bar but half our guests didn't drink so we had a host bar instead.

We're doing a host bar. Our venue has a one-bill policy during dinner, and we decided might as well just continue it. Since we're having a wedding of under 40 guests and some don't really drink, I'm not expecting too large of a bill.

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Oh I totally agree when it comes to the venue providing!

It can defiantly add up for sure!

View quoted message Which totally makes sense and I've always found that when the venue takes care of the bar, drinks are more expensive. We had to stock everything for the bar ourselves which can be expensive but thankfully my dad paid for the alcohol up front

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$4 dollars isn't bad at all! Since our venue is providing all of the alcohol and it's all their wine and all local booze, it's more expensive for us.

We did a cash bar with $4 drinks. We wanted guests to be able to have some drinks without spending a lot of money but we also didn't want them to be careless with their drinks. Our guests seemed happy with $4 drinks.