Wednesday, January 18, 2012

To Drink or Not to Drink?

I am trying to decide if we should have a completely dry reception (i.e. No alcohol) or serve beer and wine.
I will now present to you a Ben Franklin List on this issue. (For those of you who don't know, Benjamin Franklin frequently wrote lists of the pros and cons of each decision he made)

To Drink:
- Many of our guests are older and would appreciate a glass of wine with their dinner
- Most guests will expect to have alcohol at a wedding. It's pretty customary.
- *most* of our guests are responsible and would not drink more than their limit to drive, or would have their wife, husband, cousin, friend, drive back to the hotel.
- FH thinks that if we do not offer alcohol then guests will want to leave earlier, thus supporting his argument for a lunchtime reception. (again what am I supposed to do with my gorgeous updo and makeup for the rest of the day? FH says to enjoy being married. But I want to celebrate!)

Not to Drink:
- The road to our ceremony/reception is long and winding. Most of the guests are not familiar with the drive and even if they are, the road is a different beast at night.
- There are a few certain guests who are sure to imbibe too much and make complete fools of themselves
- FH and I do not drink. Just out of personal choice. Also we are gluten free (more on that later, in fact I will do a whole post on this since our wedding is to be gluten free) and alcohol almost always has gluten
- I believe that if guests have to drink to have a good time at our celebration, they really aren't there for the right reasons.
- It will significantly cut costs on our reception so we will have more money for things that matter to us, like having better food, or an upgraded dessert table.

So what do you think? Has anyone else had any experience with this? How did you settle/handle it?

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