At our wedding, we had a bottle of champagne at each table so if people wanted to have a glass, they could. We also did one keg of beer for the social hour, otherwise after that, everyone was on their own to buy their drinks.

Thankfully, I've never been in a wedding or been to a wedding where anyone has gotten completely out of hand, and all the weddings I've been to had alcohol served at them or at least available if you wanted to buy it. The people that weren't drinking had just as much fun as the ones who were.

We supplied beer and wine at ours, but it was also more of a family/backyard/barbeque type of thing, very relaxed and laid-back (example - we had a weenie roast for our rehearsal dinner and printed coolie cups as our party favor ). There were a couple of people that drank too much and threw up, but there was only one person that actually got "out of control" drunk - and he learned his lesson (rolled his car). Everyone still talks about how much fun they had, but we really tried to cater to our guests and make sure that they all had a good time (after all, they were going through so much trouble to be there for our day!). My family loves a good party, though, we're all good Irish/German stock! lol.

This is my experience as well...

I don't have a problem with alcohol at any event.

We had free pop, wine and beer. We closed the bar for drinks during dinner but had to open it back up b/c the buffet line ended up being a service line and the line got very backed up. I can only recall 2 people who were truely trashed. Everyone was very well behaved. Oh, sorry forgot MIL was drunk also.

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Well, I come from an Irish Catholic family so of course there was alcohol at our wedding. Sometimes you see an "over-served" person at a wedding (more often than not that use to be DH & I), but not crazy or fighting. I've never seen that at a wedding and I have been to TONS!!

DH & I don't drink anymore, but alot of our guests dis and my parents paid for it so it was their party to put on. We had a champagne toast (water for us),an open bar (I had never seen a cash bar until my cousins wedding when I was 21) and wine service through dinner. If you don't drink...say no.

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I don't like it when there is an open bar. Drunk people frustrate me.

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I think that each bride/groom and family is different, so it's truly up to them..I have been to all sorts of weddings and alcohol has been at every one of them!

Most weddings I have been to have not had alcohol, so I don't have a lot of experience with it. The last wedding I went to, I think there might have been a cash bar, but we didn't drink. We didn't have alcohol at ours, mainly because my husband thought that we didn't need to have alcohol to celebrate our marraige, and we didn't want to pay the liquor fee. We didn't really have the money for alcohol anyway. We had some friends offer to pay for the liquor for the wedding, but we declined. I do know that sil snuck some of her own alcohol in. She is not a drunk, but thought she needed it for the reception.

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-- St. Francis of Assisi

I was also raised with the more formal idea of weddings, and still carry that opinion with me I guess. I don't mind a champagne toast, but every wedding I have been to with an open bar has turned out to be a disaster. Case in point- my sister got remarried last year and her dh and his family all wanted alcohol. So by the end of the reception he was so drunk he could barely speak or walk properly, and even his grandmother had to be walked out by his mother! My sister ended up in tears, I know this may be an extreme case, but a wedding is an event that should be given more respect, imo.

I come from a family of nondrinkers. I don't mind a drink every now & then but I don't get "drunk."
I didn't serve alcohol at my wedding because I didn't have the money to!

My sister is getting married on the 8th & she won't have alcohol at her wedding either, for that same reason. We feel like, if people want to drink, they can do it at a bar afterwards!

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