Wedding Reception of Doom

[ShootMePlease]

Honestly, all this is among the reason my husband and I eloped.

This.

I have no intention of having anyone get trashed and ruin our special day. If I ever get married, it will be in Vegas by an Elvis impersonator. With as few people as possible.

[Eireann]

This.

I have no intention of having anyone get trashed and ruin our special day. If I ever get married, it will be in Vegas by an Elvis impersonator. With as few people as possible.

May I come? I don't drink alcohol!

[ralerin]

We haven't decided what we're doing about booze, but it'll likely depend on venue. If we're outside, we'll probably bring wine & bubbly, and maybe some local microbrews (there are some good ones in NH), and if we're at the Inn that we're considering (old brick building, looks very steampunkish), we'll probably do an open bar. But again, our family & friends are good with booze. The only one who isn't can be easily controlled.

<Threadjack again> Oooooh to the Inn? Is it in "Medford"? </threadjack>

[JustaCashier]

In my area, this past weekend, a Bride Got a DUI on Her Wedding Day.


Mike

[chainedbarista]

"everything is cool, but man, don't like get in my business because I've been to jail and I ain't afraid to go back".

fabulous *dials local police* then you won't have any issue with staying in tonight.

food fight? that hasn't been cool since...junior high? and these people were how old? (drunk may play in, but still...)

i agree; jackasses don't need a reason to be what they are...and drinking will happen no matter what-they will find a way.

[KiaKat]

<Threadjack again> Oooooh to the Inn? Is it in "Medford"? </threadjack>

No, although we thought about it. WICKED expensive, though.

This one is the "Millenial" near the State Hospital complex (in the state capital). The one they renovated a few years ago, with all the brick and dark wood. TOTALLY Victorian.

My preference would be the orchard in my hometown. They do weddings, but the new owners haven't done any yet. Timing will probably have a lot to do with it.

[superhotelworker]

I think your wedding had some of the A-holes from my weekend. I had the 'sister of the groom' and she was a wench. Sorry you had it too! Drunk people are usually annoying to deal with, but not that bad.. But the really belligerent drunk folks, make me wanna scream.

[jedikuonji]

So I found out some more info about this wedding party. Apparently they tried to start a fight with another wedding group that was staying here...at around 3am. There was some fists involved, but the other wedding came out on top and the bad wedding party was pretty much told if there was another issue we'd toss all of them out. It probably didn't help their cause that the wedding they picked a fight with was for one of our own employees.

Also related: When the groom for the crap wedding got back from his drinking binge downtown, he went up to the floor he was staying on and woke everyone up by shouting up and down the hallway: "Where's my bitch!" over and over in reference to his new bride. Classy guy.

On a tangent: For those of you considering open bars or whatever. The mark up on alcohol is insane. Any time a party wants to have an open bar, it's like we are printing money. To give you an idea of what it's like for us, if we cut the price by 50%, we'd still laugh about how much money we were raking in on the mark up.

For anyone considering wine, you might look into paying a corking fee and just providing your own. Good way to save money overall and you get to drink the exact wines you want.

[iradney]

Speaking of wines, we're getting married at a winefarm so we get to choose from their wines. Sampled about 6 of em, and they're GOOOOOOOOD *hic*

[Magpie]

On a tangent: For those of you considering open bars or whatever. The mark up on alcohol is insane. Any time a party wants to have an open bar, it's like we are printing money. To give you an idea of what it's like for us, if we cut the price by 50%, we'd still laugh about how much money we were raking in on the mark up.

Open bar in Ontario: [Go to liquor store and pick up liquor license application, skip if hall will do this for you]. Go to liquor store and stock up. Go to beer store for relatives who drink national brands. Return up to 80% of purchase afterwards if cases are unopened.

My dad was ticked that Mill St. would work out a deal with a bunch of mini-kegs for us, because that way we could have had draught beer. And they have the Organic Lager for the relatives who drink lager.

And I mentioned my friend who told everyone to drink up. They figured that some of their friends were hard enough drinkers that the hotel might end up only making a reasonable profit, instead of the usual obscene one.

[SailorMan]

First off, I have to say that I'm by no means a tea-totaler. That being said, I hardly ever feel like drinking.

It was only after I'd posted a similar statement here before that I started to examine why this is so. And, you might say it's from a sort of 'aversion therapy.' Let me explain.

I habitually live aboard large ships, which, as you'd imagine are commonly full of sailors. And, for some reason, sailors don't tend to have one or two drinks, and then carry on with, let's say, an intelligent discussion about the pros and cons of a local sports team. No, when a sailor drinks, it usually means he (or she) drinks until they're falling-down blotto, and then they get stupid. It seems the whole purpose of the evening for them is to ascertain the efficacy of negative behavioral modification induced by an alcoholic stupor, and then to 'test to destruction.'

I guess I've come to associate drinking with being exposed to large numbers of loud, obnoxious people, which I can do without.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

It's 10PM, the reception started at 7PM and 6, that's six, kegs of beer have been consumed by a group of roughly 100 people, many of whom are not drinking or have departed already.

Okay, come clean: You're in Wisconsin, aren'tcha?

Six kegs of beer in three hours is merely an aperitif for us.

[Seshat]

<threadjack>Alcohol brings out the worst in some people. If I get married, I want to have a morning/early afternoon wedding for 3 reasons.

1. Boyfriend is handicapped and the nature of his illnesses wipes him by 4 pm.

1pm is enough time for fancy bridal hairdos, fancy bridal makeup, pre-wedding photography, and noone's in a rush.

11am would work if you skipped the 'fancy' and went for 'lovely but easy to do'. Make sure you practice, and get everything ready the night before.

This makes me nervous for my wedding in a year. I hope I don't have to break up any fights.

YOU don't have to. It's your special day. Your friends who are skilled at breaking up fights (whether because they're counsellors or because they're drill sargeants) can be seconded as party security. Be sure to give them a nice gift, though.

[zzapp the witch]

I saved myself the trouble of a wedding party and got UNINVITED from my little sister's! FYI: Don't try to stop the bride to be from making a complete insane hysterical fool of herself at a very public, very crowded venue, even if she's told you from day one that YOU are the one to keep her from being a Bridezilla. Just let her go.

My sister in law had a wonderful wedding and a dry reception...I spent the whole time listening to the bf and his dad and uncle all wondering where they could buy a flask! Seriously, though, this girl didn't invite the phone book, and the ppl that I saw there were very wonderful, a little alcohol at most would have had more ppl on the dance floor.

If you've got ppl that you think will come to your wedding just for the alcohol....pare down that list!

(I'm getting married and only inviting a couple of friends and my kids. Screw everyone else if they get butthurt about it. I did the wedding wrong the first time around, I'm not messing it up again).

[SuperRTL]

My parents are tea totalers. My in-laws are mean, combative people when they're drunk. They also don't like my parents. . . or my brother . . . or my friends . . . or their son, really.

I would have had mead at an outdoor Medieval themed wedding if I thought everybody would have enjoyed themselves. As it was, i just didn't want the hassle of the inevitable. So, we eloped. Didn't even go to Vegas. Walked down to the courthouse, paid our $15 and were married. Didn't even bother to tell anybody. Somehow, my mom knew and called about 2 hours after we got home. She just knew that I'd gotten married that day.