just curious as to see as to whether you would think its cheeky if you recieved a invite for a wedding reception with "bring your own bottle" or "due to non license, small amount of alcohol will be provided by bride and groom and after that no other alcohol will be provided"

im asing on behalf of hb on here who has found the perfect venue but its not licensed and her other half seems to be reluctant to look at both sides and see that many peoeple would prob happy to bring their own b ottle as it will save money!!!

i would be happy to do this cause i know just how expensive indvidual drinks can be!

thats my thoughts..ive been to weddings before and up in scotland where i am you pay at least £3.50 for a drink!!! if you have 10 of them your looking at £35.00 just for 1 person....whereas you bring a bottle of voddy etc for you and ur partner.....soo much cheaper...

just needing lots of agreements!

my venues very expensive first thing MIL and FIL asked em was how much were drinks!! there big drinkers but cant do anything about it were supplying 2 arrival drinks and unlimited wine throughout the meal so that will have to do!

but deffo cheaper for people my friends are gonna be staying the night so there all bringin sneaky bottles to there rooms n gonna keep goin to top up lol! so in theory thats the same thing!

i dont mean bring a bottle and put it on a table etc...

what we were just thinkin was juts bring your own drink for you to drink throughout the night!

Depends - is there an offie near by just in case booze runs out??

how about people that have travelled down a fair distance to the wedding? Me and H2B have just been discussing this and he doesn't think its fair to expect those people to buy their own when they've come from so far

i think its a fantastic idea - wish we could do that x

we are doing a bring and share on drinks I think its a great idea

good idea, my venue wont allow this tho !

I think this is a fab idea, wish we could offer it. xxx

id be happy taken a massive bottle of gin for my self...... one question are mixers provided or would i have to bring my own, as if i was a guest and got asked to bring my own alcohol would say coke lemonaide etc be provided??? or would i have to bring that my self

im sure it would be fine for geri to get mixers provided!!!!! sure that will be no prob!!!

just to make sure folklike urselfs would be happy....cause we're tryin to persuader her hubby to be lol

Good luck with talking him round boo, how funny is that, trying to talk round a man on not spending more money on drink for people, lol. Fancy a drink now, oooh sherry and lemonade, that'll do nicely! :D

yeah i agree i'd be happy to bring my own..especially as some venues dont do some drinks x

That sounds perfectly reasonable; one of the things that we are doing is taking into account the weddings that we have been to in the last couple of years, remembering what we thought were bad points and trying to make sure our guests aren't left in that situation, and one of our concerns was the price of drinks because when my brother got married the hotel drinks prices were extortionate and so barely anyone was drinking - and as a result everyone had gone before the bar even closed! If you do get any queries about it, just explain to them that even if you were having it somewhere that was licensed you would not be paying for an open bar and that if they decide not to bring anything, then they can't complain that there wasn't anything to drink! I would agree with Dove as to the hot drinks or water though. x

I think it's a fab idea, our hotel has a bar so we wouldn't be able to take our own, however I am buying the guests mixed spirits as favours, so the first drink will be on us....

Gawd I would jump at this opportunity... Best of all worlds, you get the exact drink you want at a price you are happy to pay. At my h2b's son's wedding one round alone cost £82.63 (yes he is still going on about it 6mths later) We held a big party/BBQ in our house last summer and everyone bought their own booze (I know thats a bit different to a wedding) but some of the guys got together and those who drank beer -pedigree - all chipped in and got a barrel of beer from our local pub who supplied the tap etc you need, the lager group did the same and us on white wine agreed on a type and bought bottles together so that they all ended up in a big bin full of ice. We provided all the mixers (some still bought their own) and a few slabs of beer bought from a large shop which was cost co just in case and the spirit drinkers had their own stash. No one "nicked" other peoples drink and no one "checked" who had had a glass of vino more than them. Hope you do manage to persuade him as its a fab idea and the guests will prefer the pounds in their pockets.

Louby how many drinks were you getting ?

yeh think a pal of geri's has a costco card!!!!! but think they still lookin to see if there's another venue that can do it same kinda price but with licence!

it was just to test the water and get opinions..looks like it would be a fab idea!

There were about 60 of us and it always goes on for a long long time, we did end up with people coming back the next day (love BH's) but what was left over got divied up - handy having those empty coke bottles around... what can I say tho - pickled livers anyone

great idea if the venue allows it! the last wedding that i went to was redicuulously priced for a glass of wine! i had one and tha was it, call me a party pooper but i refused to pay their prices so yep, i agree BYO as long as there are mixers xx

Um am I the only one who thinks maybe it isn't a perfect idea? We're having our reception at my aunt's house and we're hiring a bar where the prices are the same as the local pub. We uhmed and ahed over the idea of BYOB but decided in the end, with that many people it would get over complicated. For starters you don't know how much or what everyone will bring. There's bound to be someone who forgets (or "forgets") and doesn't bring anything and ends up scrounging. Someone will bring too much and end up hammered (have a think - I bet out if 80 guests there's one who would!). We had the "yeah but it's our day and they'll be respectful and get pissed but not vomit in the wine bucket" conversation... but yeah, once they've started drinking, you know they would!

Just my perspective having spent 3 months going round and round with the same conversation with my H2B :)

Or hire a bar? They sort the license etc, and many don't charge you at all if there are above a certain no. of guests, often 80. Or it's about £100 to hire - compared to how much you'd pay even for just a couple of drinks for people that's cheaper.