Smuggling alcohol into a wedding reception?

[jessie777]

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

The watermelon one at a wedding?! Lol.

But it did remind me of a time when I went to the cricket (you were permitted one bottle of wine each to bring in) and someone had a large loaf of bread wrapped in cling film with a 'cheese and onion' label on. They unwrapped it and inside was a litre bottle of gin. Genius. G&Ts all round, all day.

I have 'smuggled' drink in to wedding receptions before. I was an evening only guest so brought a 50cl bottle of whiskey in my jacket pocket. Bought Coke and added it surreptitiously. Go for it, but be discreet.

Never had or would do this. Usually at the functions we go to, the bar is free for guests or at least until a certain time.

Yes yes to the carbar cookie. The wedding we went to was so overpriced so we had wine and beer in the car and kept slipping out to refill. No shame felt at all. But a lot of money saved.

Thanks for your input on a wedding reception that is 10 years old now. Why on earth would you get so so engaged/critical about this?

First of all, how the hell would I know if it was 10 years or 10 days ago? Secondly, if you don't want people to comment on your posts, don't post. No one forced you to put it out there. I think 'so engaged' is a bit delusional on your part.

We did it recently. Went with a friend and we took a bottle of vodka with the plan to buy a few drinks from the bar too. First round was £12 and we were (it wasnt a hotel or anywhere posh where we'd expect it to cost loads) so from then we bought Coke (only £1 a can so much more reasonable) and used the vodka.

I took a large handbag and put it in there, just poured it at the table. We weren't the only ones doing the same.

Cough - I get alcohol into festivals by putting it under my wheelchair cushion (funnily enough they don't search there!)

"some people just wanted to get legless I guess hmm"

Well yes, a lot of people (me included) do like a drink at a wedding, and one and a half glasses of free prosecco per person only go so far on what is usually a very long day. I'm sure these guests didn't know you would be charged £700 by the venue though - sorry to hear that, glad you negotiated it down but even so, it's a shame you had to pay anything extra.

Even easier if one of you has a room....

I got married in April and people did this at mine - kept bottles of vodka in their rooms! Didn't bother me in the slightest and I think I even had some myself at one point!

I consider myself a bit of a pro at getting drink into events! Weddings are a no brainer, gift bag.

I have strapped half bottles to my leg under a maxi dress to go to the races before.

I'm class.

My MIL told me about a friend of theirs who was at a reception where the bar was known to be expensive so had a lot of bottles in her large handbag... which she left behind! Had to go and collect it the next day and it was clinking!
Apparently the normal thing to do if it is a hotel is to have someone's room as a bar and keep popping up.
We had our reception at a community centre with a free help yourself bar (topped up by all the bottles people brought us). I was surprised at how restrained people were.

Findogask - it was far more than one and half glasses of prosecco they had. the wine was non stop during the meal and most of the afternoon. They were already pissed by then - hence my legless comment (I also like to drink at weddings, I'm not tee total)

We checked the bar prices before booking (which were reasonable). Booked a local venue (rather than one I'd have preferred further away) so people didn't need to stop over and could get grandparents to pick up their kids early eve - put on entertainment for the kids. Having done everything I could to think of our guests and ensure they were happy, well catered, entertained and not hanging around for food or sitting through dull speeches, I was a tad pissed off that they were blantently swigging straight from bottles of rum and wine and leaving them lying around (we saw photos on Facebook) leaving us with an unexpected bill.

I have no problem with people taking alcohol to venues but just be discrete about it and take your empties home!!

Just put the bottles into a gift bag and it will just look like it's a present for the bride and groom. I have done this in a restaurant never done this

Hell yeh!

No. The bride and groom will get whacked with corkage if you're caught. Plus it's super-tacky.

Northernmum100 is this the umbrella flask ... I haven't drunk alcohol for years but I understand why people would do this - if it had been me though, after two I'd be pouring it out at the table so not very discreet

I don't drink alcohol but I always do this with fruit shoots! I have very thirsty kids so will always buy their first drink at the bar but beyond that I'm not going to keep paying ridiculous amounts. Trip to poundland first and stick them in my large handbag.

Gracious if I had more than was available at the breakfast, I'd be unable to walk. Why would you feel the need to have more than was provided? Is it to try and save the host parents the cost of your drinks? I think they've probably already budgeted sufficiently to meet most people's demands.

"I have strapped half bottles to my leg under a maxi dress to go to the races before."

So that is why I got the pat down at Orlando airport last year - I was wearing a maxi dress.

Not personally, but MIL snuck a bottle of vodka into a family wedding about 3 years ago to share with us all. It was a very snooty venue that was charging £8/9 a drink for single measure spirit and mixers / small glasses of wine, so I was grateful to her for thinking ahead! We were not in the best financial situation at the time and would probably have had to only have had one drink all evening otherwise.

I have no problem buying drinks at the bar providing the venue isn't taking the piss with it's pricing. Sadly a lot of wedding reception venues do.

Two of my friends brought handbag wine to my wedding last year, and another two nipped to a shop to but jager as the venue didn't "do" shots.

The wine annoyed me a bit but the jager didn't... dunno where I get my standards from, I'm taking a hip flask of rum to a vair nice wedding reception tonight! It's a fairly standard move with people I know....

Crumbs I don't know what type of weddings you're used to but the ones I have attended generally kick of around 2 and go on until 1am. There might be wine with the meal and a glass of fizz but come night time it's a pay bar. Free bars certainly aren't the norm here. It might be a Scottish thing - no one could afford to offer a free bar the rate it's consumed at a wedding!

I wouldn't do this. If it's too expensive to buy a drink, just don't drink.

Gracious if I had more than was available at the breakfast, I'd be unable to walk. Why would you feel the need to have more than was provided? Is it to try and save the host parents the cost of your drinks? I think they've probably already budgeted sufficiently to meet most people's demands.

This assumes all drinks are provided, which is rare. (Even rarer than 'host parents' these days.)

I wouldn't do this. If it's too expensive to buy a drink, just don't drink