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 😑😑😑

I don't understand the fine? How can you pay for something you haven't had. How do they put a price on it. I would just tell them no!!!

I don't understand the fine? How can you pay for something you haven't had. How do they put a price on it. I would just tell them no!!!

The venue says "we found 4 empty wine bottles and 2 empty prosecco bottles under the tables, with labels that aren't sold here. So we are charging you the same cost as we have lost in revenue".

I should add that "all of us" amounted to about 10 people out of a total guest list of well over 150, so I doubt that our sneaky drinking made much of a difference to the bar take.

chelazla You pay to open a bottle (corkage) so they charge you for all the open containers. They then also apply a fine at a lot of places.

I personally hate corkage as it's always applied even after you have paid for hiring the venue. It's a money grab. This is why I didn't have my wedding reception at a venue but in my dads best friends back yard. It was great!

Mort

Must you be such a party pooper dear! Don't remind me of my nanny

Errrrr what?

Hasn't anyone on here heard of pre-drinks? Arrive already pissed. Jon done

Yes,predrinks however there's a balance,can't arrive munted.need to appear composed
So surreptitious swally still required

There is no way I would pay a fine! They're hardly going to persure you in the courts for a couple of hundred quid! I had my wedding reception in my friends pub and whilst not the poshest venue was really really fun, affordable and everyone was well oiled!

I normally sneak in a bottle or two... If staying over then normally just keep in room usually make sure i buy one or two drinks at the bar to avoid suspicion

Two friends of mine (separate weddings) were charged by their venues for lost revenue when the staff discovered bottles of wine and gin that had been brought in by guests and drunk instead of using the bar. The friend with the gin was especially pissed off as the hotel's price per bottle was sky high.

Cheers Queen, thought I was following the generally light hearted tone of the thread, but obviously not. (On the occasion I did it I bought the mixers so I didn't look like a total alky btw)

I think hotels aren't particularly fair when they overprice drinks, knowing they have a captive audience. Nobody is going to leave a wedding to go to the local pub where drinks are reasonably priced, are they?

At the last wedding I went to, I had one glass of wine during the evening, which cost £9... for a standard Pinot Grigio which sells for £6 a bottle in the Co-op... I saw the label!

I then drank tap water for the rest of the evening, on principle.

Surely the really tacky thing here is paying out for a hugely expensive venue to make your wedding look fancy, but then not paying for your guests' drinks. Makes me glad my wedding is just going to be in a cheap, converted barn, because at least my guests will enjoy free booze all day and night long. Cut your cloth and all that.

Missmeg3leg, that is genius 😂😂

If you're staying put it in your room.
If you're parking your car there overnight put it in your boot.

We had children much younger than most of our friends. When we were on number 3 most of our friendship group were just getting married. Like you we couldn't have afforded to get to the wedding, buy a gift and buy drinks there so the above is what we did!

Re drinks prices - perhaps also leave a review on Trip Advisor.

I always thought that not having an open bar at a wedding was incredibly rude. If you invite guests who are that chavy they have to smuggle cheap wine at a wedding, maybe you have a point. Do guests really have to get absolutely drunk at a wedding? Pure class, but I guess the party goers pictured in the papers embarrassing themselves do get invited to weddings sometimes.

I've often witnessed guests popping to their room and returning with a full glass and also popping out to car bar. One venue we have covered a wedding in actually has a notice behind the bar stating any guest caught using a car bar will be asked to leave.

Some very judgemental comments on here, no one said they wanted to get "absolutely drunk" and you can drink without getting hammered. Wedding receptions can be very long, so a few drinks over several hours wouldn't have most people wasted.

*Daily mail ??

Yes, this is destined to appear on the Daily Mail website.

Surely you cant have missed the fact that they trawl MN for stories and then cut-and-paste them?

I'm obviously getting old and boring, as I'd just stick to soft drinks, or water. Surely even an inflated-price soft drink wouldn't cost more than an alcoholic drink in a 'regular' venue?

My friend did this at my wedding she brought vodka in a water bottle and was just going to buy soft drinks.

She was pleased to find we had a free bar and got to take her vodka home 😄

We're going to a very expensive hotel for a wedding later this year - think we'll all be carrying umbrellas now - fingers crossed for rain!

I've never heard of doing this. I'm all for getting pissed at weddings (and anywhere really!) but I'd die of embarrassment if anyone caught me as it does look cheap. Might have a small bottle of brandy or whisky in the room for a nightcap or one pre drink, but wouldn't keep nipping up to fill up!