Wedding Drinks

Belmit said:
I didn't. In fact, during the reception I mislaid half a bottle of red wine I'd brought down with me. One of the staff came over and said 'It's over there. Don't worry, I know what the prices are like...'. :D
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OMG you didn't tell me this!!! LOL Pretty sure we smuggled the empty bottles out... or not. :/

Can't remember actually buying any drink the whole weekend!

BB x
 
Greebo said:
Seriously? Are there really so many people in this thread who don;t realise that a "Wedding Breakfast" is not at breakfast? It's just what you call the reception after a wedding so most are late afternoon.
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I didn't know that but then again I'm not gay.

So what do you actually call a "morning meal" before a wedding then? I had about 40 of my friends join me for a fry up and some serious whisky tasting the morning of my wedding. What would you call that (besides a **** up)?

Wife also had all her friends join her for a "morning meal".
 
One bottle of each with the breakfast and a glass of bubbly for the toast (cheap stuff - in my experience 99% of the guests don't like sparkling wine anyway and actively refuse it unless persuaded it's just for the taost) and make do tbh. Everyone will get a glass of wine from that, and besides, without trying to sound sexist, most of the men will probably want beer, the wine drinkers will be fussy about grape/colour/whatever and you always end up with either red or white being popular with the other left over.

You're just putting extra pressure on yourself to spend a fortune that isn't need. The guests won't feel hard done by and will EXPECT to have to buy their own drinks. Your day isn't any the worse for you not having paid for everything for everyone and you're a fortune better off with the drinks cost.
 
amigafan2003 said:
I didn't know that but then again I'm not gay.

So what do you actually call a "morning meal" before a wedding then? I had about 40 of my friends join me for a fry up and some serious whisky tasting the morning of my wedding. What would you call that (besides a **** up)?

Wife also had all her friends join her for a "morning meal".
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Brunch?

I've been to a few weddings where there has been a free bar. One was at a pub and I nipped behind the bar to see the running total, it was around 10pm and it was at around £1.8k already!

Some where the couple has stocked up the wine so only the wine was free, but you got to pay for the others.

Some where only the alcohol up to the food was free, evening was a normal bar service.

People have all enjoyed themselves in all of them.
 
Point to note - on average people drink more white wine than red wine. I advise against a 50:50 split. We had a few hundred guests at our wedding and had loads of red left over.
 
Personally I go 2 red, 2 white for a table of 8-10. People will be sitting down for 2 hours. It'll mean half a bottle each (even split), that's like 2 glasses in 2 hours with food.
 
I think the idea of having tokens as favours is absolutely brilliant. No help to the OP but ive never heard of this before and it would have saved me a lot of trouble!
 
Belmit said:
If knowing stuff is a measure of gayness then I am a raging bumder.
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BB x
 
amigafan2003 said:
I didn't know that but then again I'm not gay.

So what do you actually call a "morning meal" before a wedding then? I had about 40 of my friends join me for a fry up and some serious whisky tasting the morning of my wedding. What would you call that (besides a **** up)?

Wife also had all her friends join her for a "morning meal".
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A chav feast.
 
I think this is really up to the rules of the venue. When me and the wife got married we basically had 1 bottle of each on the table and the staff were instructed to swap bottles around if they were not being drunk on a particular table so the tables that were drinking the red wine simply got more red wine. The tables that were drinking white wine got more white wine and everyone was happy.
 
If I was to ever get married, the one thing I'd make sure was done right was alcohol. It brightens the mood up no end, people are in great spirits and there is great joviality.

Obviously I know it's expensive but imho it's the way forward. Some of my best memories include free bars, something which gets everyone involved!

And it dosen't have to be that expensive. The last wedding I went to there were people who still paid for drinks even though it was a free bar, and even me, a ***** student, gave £20 later to help partially cover my drinks.
 
Justin said:
A chav feast.
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Haha - not sure many chavs start their wedding day off in a castle.

So no one else started their wedding day with a fry up and a few wee drams? Thought it was standard fare tbh.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Haha - not sure many chavs start their wedding day off in a castle.

So no one else started their wedding day with a fry up and a few wee drams? Thought it was standard fare tbh.
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Well next Saturday we are having a fry up then a round of golf before my mates wedding with hip flasks. Does that count?
 
Greebo said:
Seriously? Are there really so many people in this thread who don;t realise that a "Wedding Breakfast" is not at breakfast? It's just what you call the reception after a wedding so most are late afternoon.
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:o Well I did check to see if the OP's location was Glasgow when he was talking about breakfast wine.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Haha - not sure many chavs start their wedding day off in a castle.

So no one else started their wedding day with a fry up and a few wee drams? Thought it was standard fare tbh.
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Drinking whiskey with your breakfast isn't normal, even (perhaps especially) on your wedding day. It's Scottish.
 
Deadbeat said:
Drinking whiskey with your breakfast isn't normal, even (perhaps especially) on your wedding day. It's Scottish.
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Well about half of my friends were Scottish.

A fry up on a very special occasion accompanied with a few drams seems perfectly normal to me (and until yesterday I hadn't had a drink for four years).
 
That'll explain it then :p

One of my cousins' weddings some years back included cracking open a fresh bottle of poitín and having the bride, groom & priest toast a fairly large measure after "I Do" and before the kiss, so certainly each to their own. My old housemate told me of a wedding she attended where the rings were carried by dogs - the bride's ring for the groom escaped after a gaggle of geese down the hill from the marquee they were in and the wedding had a 40 minute interval while the little ******* was recovered :)
 
Deadbeat said:
That'll explain it then :p

One of my cousins' weddings some years back included cracking open a fresh bottle of poitín and having the bride, groom & priest toast a fairly large measure after "I Do" and before the kiss, so certainly each to their own. My old housemate told me of a wedding she attended where the rings were carried by dogs - the bride's ring for the groom escaped after a gaggle of geese down the hill from the marquee they were in and the wedding had a 40 minute interval while the little ******* was recovered :)
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Haha, poitin is deadly stuff. Sounds like a jokes wedding,e
 
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