Smuggling alcohol into a wedding reception?

[jessie777]

Would you? Have you?! Did you get caught?!

I live in Scotland so pretty far from London and they honestly don't

Unless you've drunk in every bar in Scotland you are not qualified to say this.
And I can assure you they do.

@MrsKoala we considered that people would have to take time off work and that's why we planned it for the start of the school holidays so no one missed work. The day was family anyway and only I think three people had to put in holiday because they have what my family call "a real job" and the rest were fine because most are either teachers or part timers or retired!

I imagine for others though that would put people off. If we had to put holiday in we would have course had it on a weekend. As it happens everyone was happy it was a weekday (three day wedding actually) because they had the weekend too.

Happily though we didn't need to remortgage the house to pay £22k for a Friday or £26k for a Saturday wedding!

Coincidentally just seen this horrendous thing: bit.ly/2q1PARl

I've just asked dh his view of this

As a hospitality manager he hates it.

He's allowed to both take the alcohol from you and throw you out. People square up to him about apparently.

Sounds hilarious😟

Of course he hates it, he's a hospitality manager. Obvs!

we did it once at an expesnive hotel wedding,. but we did bar drinks at bar,but just went back to room to drink discretly! X

Yes he really doesn't like the drunk entitled arseholes squaring up to him - only because he's a hospitality manager obviously, anyone else would love that 😕

RJ and Ms Harry -

This is part of the reason anyone serving the alcohol or responsible will get annoyed - because under licencing law you're not allowed to serve someone already drunk, you can get fined up to £10,000 and prison sentences for breaking license conditions. I'm not saying that if a police officer saw you serve a staggerer a pint you'd be in handcuffs - but when applying for a personal license it's made very clear that the designated premises supervisor is responsible for making sure staff are trained correctly, so the staff member, the DPS and the company can all be held to account.
I was a DPS, we did weddings alongside other celebrations. One celebration a guest threw up all over the table and yes, I turfed them out and railroaded my staff for serving someone already that drunk. They swore blind they hadn't. Family of girl (and celebration) (she was over 18) the next day complained that we'd 'allowed' her to get so drunk when we are responsible as she'd spent the night in hospital and had made herself quite ill with the amount she'd had. I'd already reviewed the CCTV - guess who had a small bottle she kept adding to her drink with?!
My staff served her a soft drink and she added her own, puked everywhere, made herself ill and put my license, the premises license and all our jobs at risk - obviously as I could prove that she'd done it herself the family dropped the complaint BUT what if I couldn't?
Yes, it's an isolated incident however it shows it's not all about cash in the till. The government have forced licensees to be responsible for other people's drinking on their watch so to speak, in an effort to show they're doing something.

RJ I was referring to bringing in my own spirits. I don't get drunk or square up to anyone.

Some posters seem to think there are Teetotals and drunks and nothing in-between. I never drink more than 4 drinks, I just object to paying £7 for a measly measured gin and tonic.

Never felt the need to, but certainly would if the price of drinks would prevent me from drinking as much as I felt I would want to.

Nowhere except wetherspoons charges 3/4 £ for a glass of wine because it's financially impossible to sustain

Not true. Average glass of wine approx £3 in the pubs/bars around here and surrounding areas.
(Then again I don't live in that there rip off London.)

Catthiefkeith

You are so clever! I'm sharing your ideas with everyone! 😊

Not read whole thread but last week I took a full bottle of gin to my cousins wedding, hidden in a bottle bag! No problem at all. It cost me a fortune so saving slightly on drinks was a bonus.

I have done this before when I was young, used to bring in a half bottle of whisky. Good days!