Going to a really, really expensive hotel for a wedding. AIBU to want to go back to my student days ??

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DP says I am.......I'm saying we can't bloody afford it, never mind £7 or so for a drink each on top.

AIBU in wanting to pull my old student trick of gift wrapping boxes of wine (( to sneak then in innocently ))then having my own wine on tap for the night ?? That way we'd only have to buy one drink.

Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact it's a close family member I'd be pulling a sickie. At least this way we can affordably drown our sorrows at all the money on travel and a hotel we've had to spend 😑😑😑

That is a genius idea! Do it!

Find out what make wines they have and get the same bottle to smuggle in. That way they can't fine

I must say, at our wedding I popped to France and had wine on the tables and paid for corkage. But, as the guests were majority rugby players, the amount that was drunk, the corkage was scrapped

Well I've sneaked booze into weddings etc,surreptitiously topping up.but your idea is priceless

I bought these.

YmightBU. A friend was hit with a large bill when people did this at her wedding. The empty bottles were discovered by staff. It caused quite a rift with her family/friends as nobody admitted it.

Bill for what?what items were they expected to pay for.i get it's not done thing
But struggling what they'd be billed for

Oh I wouldn't leave the box behind well I hope I wouldn't. And if it's found its just a gift wrapped box in a.gift bag, the staff should Bleddy well hand it in !!

Recently stayed in a hotel where the party room was very close to our hotel room. Popped back to our room regularly to top up my alcohol (as well as use the toilet and give the children drinks etc).

This just reminded me to get out my hip flask (never used) for a wedding I have coming up!

Missmeg, that's brilliant! In fact I might have to get one of those when I go to festivals later this year!

This is an unbelievable idea.

The last wedding I went to, a glass of the very ordinary wine was £9. Utterly bloody ridiculous. If you think you can get away with it, go for it.

Loads of people did this at my friend's wedding and she got a huge bill afterwards when all the bottles were found.
I'd keep the alcohol in the hotel room and nip back.

Never thought to keep the booze in the room! Love the umbrella and gift idea!

Seriously the only thrives on here are the excessive hotel prices!!

What someone told me was they took the wine bottles off the table (the ones supplied by the venue), whipped them secretly up to the room and then refilled them up there. Never tried it but it sounded like quite the good idea!

I think this is awful!

The more drunk people get the less careful they are. If you can't afford the drinks then just don't drink.

It's one evening. its meant to be about spending time with loved ones not getting as hammered as you can for as cheap as possible.

Getting as hammered as you can for as cheap as possible,it's nearly a county sport in Liverpool,Newcastle,Glasgow

We did at a wedding recently with no problems. Although I had a bit of a shock when the young girl on drinks almost throttled me as I went to pick up a glass of wine as apparently it's "one per person lady".

Enjoy the wedding. It's part of our culture to drink at weddings! I for one certainly don't see what's wrong with it. I don't suppose unless you have been in such situation or like to drink are fully able to judge us

Handbag vodka. Only way to afford drinks at stupid expensive Xmas party venue.
Queen- usually soft drinks are. Still expensive.

For my sisters wedding she went to a fancy venue and served no beer, only wine that was terrible. I had gone to Costco to replace the wine at our own cost but she was offended, although admitted the wine they had purchased was undrinkable.

Well the 9 bottles of wine that we had purchased went into the diaper bag in gift bags. DH took the caps off the screw tops we had drunk and nailed them to the corks so when you looked in you couldn't tell they had been opened. Glasses were refilled in the room assigned for changing the baby.

I also have sleeves for beer cans that we use when down the shore. Open container laws mean no alcohol outside of your home. It's a cold beer on a hot day while watching the kids play in the sand. I have also used them for stadium games when we are not in a box (alcohol is included). It's $8 for a $2 beer. I ain't paying that!

My friends wedding was so expensive! Under my dd and my friends dd pram had more spirits than the bar! Even mixers were over £3 so bottle of coke and lemonade too! Not for as I was 8 months pregnant with ds but was funny watching everyone coo over babies while pouring their drink!

I'm obviously a party pooper. Whilst I think some of the ideas here are funny in a 'what if we' kind of why where it's a joke and you never go through with it, I think to do it for real is just makes people look cheap. Drink what you can afford and limit yourself. Anything else is just tacky tbh.

I was amazed that no one in (then BF) DH's friendship group had never heard of this, despite them all spending many a year as proper poor students!

A lot have done very very well since, the rest of us...not so much. A friend and I were discussing one of the the expensive weddings and worrying about the cost of drinks and I said "Oh I will do the old bottle gift bag trick" and she had never heard of it! It has since become something that we all do, to the point where the last wedding had the bride emailing us all to tell us what labels of wine the place sold so that we could buy the same at supermarket prices :o

vodka. Only way to afford drinks at stupid expensive Xmas party venue.
Queen- usually soft drinks are. Still expensive.

I see. So neat vodka out of your handbag is what you drink instead. How classy.

whathaveilost I don't care if I look cheap. I am confident enough to not care.