eek I caused a 150 corkage fee last night wwyd

[alittlethyme]

Was at a wedding last night. Each of the tables we're named after a spirit and they had a bottle of whatever on the table. I was a bit tipsy and didn't know many people, so cracked open some whisky without noticing that it had a label on the other side saying drinking this would be a 150 fee. I only had a few mm and screwed the lid back on tightly after I realise d the fee.

One aibu to think 150 a bottle is a stupid amount?

Two should I go back to the hotel today sober to try and get a reduction in the fee as was barely touched?

Three should I pay whatever the charge is?

i really want to know how this turns out! please let us know OP!

I am guilty as charged in calling it crass and vulgar.

For me it wasn't about what the whisky was, but about making such a feature of alcohol. Naming gatherings of people to celebrate your wedding after hard booze. Using spirits bottles as table decorations. It seems to make celebration all about the drink. And I do find a focus on alcohol crass, and vulgar.

So have to plead guilty to judgeypants hoiked high.

I appreciate the OP didn't ask for such opinions, but hey, she is free to ignore, or challenge as she wishes.

Lweji

That is the kind of thing that people buy on Bargain Hunt and are dumbfounded when it doesn't make over £11.

I love the grouse bottle holder :o

I am sooo classy.

Does anybody else now want to find various themed can/bottle holders to use a centrepieces or is it just me?

Imagine - Grey Goose, Speckled Hen, Famous Grouse, Kraken Whisky, Royal Stag, Beefeaters (at a push). You could end up with some rather dreadful hangovers but it would be entertaining...

Grouse is shit.

I was once talking to a guy who works for the company that owns Grouse, he reckoned that blended whiskey pish is propping the malt whiskey industry up by mixing it all together...

If I had put bottles of spirits on the tables at any kind of do I was hosting, I'd expect people to drink them. If a £150 bill per bottle bothered me (and I'm pretty sure it would), I wouldn't put them on. I certainly wouldn't expect guests to check the bottle for a warning label. Generally, if it's an item of food or drink on the table, people will see it as fair game.

Why would you put alcohol in a table at a wedding if you didn't expect people to drink it? A bottle of whiskey isn't particularly decorative.

OneFlew: I think you'd be best off using that protocol vodka (made in Ayrshire, naturally) they used to sell really cheaply in Asda when I was a teenager as a centrepiece. It had a red label with a picture of Lenin on it. Nothing would say 'come celebrate with me' better.

OMG - I had to Google Vodka Luges and have not changed my view!

LimitedperiodOnly: was your MIL on the other end of this ?

Claaaaaaaassseeeee

Link didn't work - scroll down to bottom R hand corner!

Blu are you referencing the ice penis?

It was a very romantic double winged heart with one wing as the slide.

At the start of the evening it was quite decorous with a waiter pouring a shot glass of vodka down the ice to be caught in a shot glass at the end.

And then the waiters buggered off and guests were free-pouring from the bottles.

She wasn't my MIL btw.

My MIL is a keen drinker - gin and Noilly Prat because she came of age in the '50s - but she'd never take part in anything like that. She would snigger though.

Yes, the ice penis!

I love Noilly Prat- my hip parents liked to drink it when I was a child.

If they chase you for it name and shame the hotel on trip advisor.

Blu do you call it Noly Pratt or Nowee Pwarr?

Means nothing to me but means everything to my beloved MIL

She goes with Noly Pratt, btw and I'm not going to argue.

A halfway version, I think: Nwally Prah. Tres sophistice'

QuietBat - is that right? Like Moet? That escaped suburban Midlands!

Nowee Prah here. nobody ever has it.

What do you get if you mix famous grouse with a bottle of Oban?

The famous Groban

Come on, OP, were you asked to pay for it?
or are you also going to be deleted?

I appreciate the OP didn't ask for such opinions, but hey, she is free to ignore, or challenge as she wishes

I don't suppose she cares. She wasn't the one who picked the theme.

I think the OP is long gone.

I'm obviously in the minority in thinking the OP should pay up without question. B&G had a spirits table theme, hotel said that's fine if bottles (for table decoration only) are not opened, otherwise it's a £150 corkage fee. To make sure no one opened them they put notes on each bottle telling you not to AND warning of the fee. To me, this is clearly OPs mistake.....

I love that the other guests at the table didn't tell you until you started drinking! Not when you picked the bottle, not whilst you screwed the cap off, or when you poured - but when you started drinking.