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I think offering some sort of alcohol, like you mentioned, is a great idea. I would say that you are definately treating your guests right so some wine will do!
Oh, thanks for posting this. FI and I were just discussing this as well. FI's parents have a very limited budget for our rehearsal and we have a large bridal party. Our rehearsal will likely be about 50 people. Alcohol/open bar is likely not in our budget (which is very small). FI hates the idea of not having alcohol, and I would rather be able to offer our guest some type of beverage, but what can we do? If they don't have the money, they don't have the money.
Our wedding coordinator actually said she usually advises that if you're okay with it, to forego the rehearsal dinner alcohol because open bar/free alcohol usually invites people to drink more, and you don't want your bridal party to be all hammered the night before the wedding!
I think wine is sufficient, especially in light of how many other meals you're already covering for your guests. As long as you're offering some sort of beverage (wine/beer/sodas), I think you're fine. No need to cover Uncle Joe's $20/glass bourbon if he's already getting several meals out of you!
I definitely think it's ok and wow you really are treating your guests really well! The only recommendation that I'd make is to ensure that guests don't assume that you are covering anything and everything they want to drink at your rehearsal dinner.
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Hello
We have a bit of an issue regarding paying for an open bar at the rehearsal dinner. As a bit of background … we are getting married in Italy so the vast majority of our guests are going to be staying for the week at a villa. We are hosting a few meals for our guests during the week of the wedding.
The first meal a welcome dinner on the first night of their stay where we will bring in a chef and we are covering all alcohol (as it will be at the villa). There is also, obviously, the full wedding dinner and an open bar on the wedding day and night (at a cost of 170 euro per person for the dinner and open bar). We are also hosting a catered four hour brunch on the day after the wedding, with pastas, meats, cheeses, quiches, egg dishes, fruit and breakfast items etc. with prosecco cocktails.
Finally, we are hosting all of the wedding guests (about 55 people) at a very nice restaurant on the evening prior to the wedding for a four course rehearsal dinner. We where thinking about purchasing a few bottles of prosecco (Italian sparking wine) to have with passed antipasti upon arrival of the guests and then making sure that there are bottles of San Pellegrino on the tables (still and sparking), which we will pay for. We were hoping to avoid paying for everyone’s drinks on the rehearsal dinner night. There are a couple of reasons why we don’t want to cover drinks the most obvious being that we don’t want a massive bill for drinks and secondly we don’t want people to get too drunk on the night prior to the wedding, and then be too sick to enjoy the six course wedding dinner.
Please advise if you think that not covering the drinks is rude. We don’t want our guests to think we are ungrateful.
Thanks bees!