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Our venue provides water, tea, lemonade, coffee, beer, wine and champagne as beverages. FMIL is freaking out about the lack of soda. She wants to bring it in herself, keeps insisting people will want it. I told her our venue won't let us bring it in and there's plenty of beverages options. She says she won't drink a single thing I listed and wants to call the venue and try to work something out. I think she's being ridiculous. Surely she and her soda loving family can survive a few hours without it. Are you having soda at your reception? I personally don't like soda so I might be a bit biased, lol.
Then she can stop at a gas station and get a Coke on her way there. That's silly. We are having the same as you except or wine and are not worried about soda at all. I think if it's at a wedding, cool. If not, totally normal.
We will probably have two different types of soda at ours a regular & a diet.. But all of our drinks the vendor prefers us to bring in ourselves to save us the cost.. I want to say that if they bring it that one glass is like $3 a person or something like that.. And drinks & the cake are the only outside food/drink that we can bring in..
We're having soda, though honestly if it wasn't included in the cost, we probably wouldn't. I do enjoy my soda consumption, though I don't think soda absence would be felt, especially since there are non-alcoholic alternatives. :-)
To be honest, I really think that soda should be a staple at any event. We have a number of guests who don't drink and I personally wouldn't feel right about not offering them soda. Sure, I guess they can drink water or lemonade (which some people actually don't like) but if they prefer a soft drink, I'd much rather make them happy.
To answer your question, yes, we are serving soda at our reception.
for me, beer wine and soda are the 3 basic standards but you are providing lemonade (is this american lemonade or 7up??) and i would be drinking that happily
I also had to add that FMIL won't drink wine because she says after a glass or two her face starts to feel warm so it obviously doesn't agree with her. Haha, that's called a buzz my dear :)
I think having tea and lemonade gives enough options. And frankly, if your venue doesn't allow it, then there's really no decision to be made here, right?
lol... isn't that was all sodas are? minus the lemon.
Sorry... but isn't soda just a fizzy drink? (ps... i'm from Australia.... )
As long as you have non-alcoholic options, you're totally fine. It's weird to me she's so fixated on soda. We're having soda, only because it's in our caterer's standard package.
@eloping OOOHHH i didn't think about that... Yeah... lemonade here is a fizzy drink
@Baby_PebbleS: Lemonade in the states isn't generally fizzy, unless it's "sparkling" lemonade.
@UpstateCait: It's not provided by the venue and they won't let us bring any outside drinks in. I'm sure they will provide it for an extra charge but I didn't think it was a must. It will be a smaller wedding (65-75 guests) and a lot of my family and friends don't drink soda or would rather have beer or wine at a wedding. There would probably be like 5-10 soda drinkers total. FI and I are on a tight budget so it seems silly for just a few people. I guess I figured water, iced tea and lemonade were good non-alcoholic options. It is interesting to see that soda is so common at weddings though.
@Baby_PebbleS: Soda here in the States would be something like Coke or Pepsi. Our lemonade isn't carbonated, so no fizz.
We are having soda, but we are also providing all of our own beverages. I couldn't care one way or the other because I don't drink it, but, our non alcohol drinking guests would expect it, and we would need it for mixers anyway.
@7-9-11bride: I guess if FMIL puts up enough of a stink you could tell her she can pay the extra charge. ;)
AHhhhhh!!! makes a bit more sense now.
I think she would be fine without having any soda for the night lol
@mightywombat: Fixated is an understatement. She and FFIL drink at least 5-10 cans a day. I've never once seen them drink anything else.
btw, i would love traditional (american/non fizzy) lemonade to be served - i love that stuff
@brideatbeach: Yes I am considering telling her that. She will sneak it in otherwise, I know she will.
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we're serving pop. here in michigan, we use baking soda for cooking... ;-)
@joy2011: Haha I'm from the North and when I first moved down south, no one knew what I was talking about when I asked what type of pop they had... ;)
The only reason we had soda was because about 1/4 of our guest list was teenagers. I wanted them to have a lot of options other than alcohol!
I really feel like she should be able to go one evening without soda - I can see how someone would want it with their meal if they don't care for wine or beer but I'm sure they can suck it up and have lemonade.
I would provide a regular and diet option as well as a clear soda. What coffee is to some people, Diet Pepsi is to me. Can people survive, yes. Will they be happy about it? Probably not. But you said few people re soda drinkers, so it may not be missed at your wedding. My family, however, loves their soda, so I will have it.
We did. We had Pepsi, Diet Coke, and Sprite...I think. It was pretty popular, especially since we had a lot of kids there.
I find it odd that Soda isnt on the bar.
Not everyone drinks liquor, and those that do, sometimes want a fizzy drink. ( Rum & Coke) for example. I dont think its major enough to freak out over, but it is kind of odd.
@7-9-11bride: If I remember correctly, we had soda to go with our liquor selection. As part of our beverage package, we got a sherbet based punch for those not drinking alcohol. It went over well. When we were at the buffet, I noticed that it was nearly empty, so we made a good call on it.
Honestly, yes, I think you should have soda available to your guests at the wedding. It is just a common courtesy and I would find it extremely odd if there was no soda available, even though I'm not a soda drinker myself. You said that there would only be 5 - 10 people drinking it at the reception, therefore, the cost shouldn't be that big. My venue charges $1.25 per soft drink served so that it going to be a miniscule cost in the grand scheme of things.
To me, this is a minor issue and not worth fighting with your FMIL over. If she wants soda and it's not going to cost you dearly (which it shouldn't), then I say suck it up and just have it on the menu at the bar.
Hmm. I'm really not much of a drinker, so I would be a little disappointed by the lack of soda. But really...it's, what, four hours of my life? I would be fine without it, so I don't see a need for you to change your arrangements.
We might. I haven't totally decided yet. It might just be beer, wine, and lemonaid.
I agree with some of the other posters that the lack of soda is a little odd. Yes it won't kill her to not have soda for one night but there is nothing wrong with politely inquiring if the venue can add a soda option. Plus soda is pretty cheap since you only have a few guests i can't imagine them charging you more $50-$100 to include a good number of bottles.
We are and I think it's really important. Mostly because my dad doesnt drink and he loves pop. If we had wine and no pop it would be a huge slap in the face.
On another note, today I learned that lemonade in australia is fuzzy!
Honestly, I'd be kinda ticked if I was at a wedding and there was no pop. I don't drink alcohol, hate coffee, am not a big fan of lemonade, and water is just very blah. So I'm kind of screwed without pop.
To be honest people usually drink lots of soda and since its so much cheaper than alcohol people usually expect it. Our venue allows us to bring our own drinks so we are buying in bulk from sams club lots of coke,sprite,sunkist etc. We NEEd to have soda since none of us drink alcohol we will have soda, water, juice, iced tea and a non alcohol wine and non-alcoholic malt beverage
But if the venue doesnt allow you to bring it in, I'm sure people will survive one day without it
I love Diet Coke. I drink it every day. Would I be disappointed if I went to a wedding and they didn't have it? Probably a little bit. But would I live? Absolutely. And I suspect your guests will feel the same way. There may be a few that miss the soda, but I doubt anyone (other than your MIL) will be devastated by it. And for the record, I've been to several wedding receptions and other banquet-type functions where there was no soda offered. It's not that unusual and people can deal.
Honestly, there is NOTHING she can drink? Who doesn't drink water?? I'm thinking maybe she should give it a try....
Hmm....maybe I will email our venue today and inquire about the cost of soda. I didn't realize it was such a big deal. I've never noticed if soda was served at weddings I've been to but that's probably because I don't drink it. I'm sure we would get charged a package price for all our guests though. They don't actually have any type of bar there, just servers. That's why we are doing beer, wine, champagne instead of mixed drinks. Would it be really rude to ask FMIL to pay the difference? With only a month to go, we are on a super tight budget. I also wanted to add that with the exception of about 10 babies and toddlers all our guests will be 21 and older so it's not like we have a bunch of kids or teens that would be drinking soda. Most of the people who won't drink alcohol will be pregnant or breastfeeding and won't drink soda anyway.
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