Cash Bar or Corkage Bar

Hi Guys,


Just a lot of thinking about how are we gonna do our beverage service on our wedding (getting married on Sept.10,2022). My fiancée and I don’t drink,but both of our friends and family does.I mean a lot of them! So far we have about 125 adults in our guestlist,not sure if all of them is coming and with Covid and restrictions we still don’t know how everything will work out..The reception we booked recommended to just do Cash Bar,of course for them to make money I guess. But originally we wanted to do Corkage Bar but the hotel/reception is asking us to get liquor license,personal liability insurance,corkage fee,service charge and GST,Hire their bartenter for minimum of 5 hours.So now,Im just thinking of just saying yes to Cash Bar because I don’t want to go through all stress of dealing of what they are asking.Did anyone had to deal with this at all?