Smuggling alcohol into a wedding reception?

[jessie777]

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

I've done it, but the venue made it really easy to do so! The car park was right next to the outside patio designated to the party and all you had to do was keep the booze in the boot of your car. Simples. This particular bar was rather expensive and to be honest the rest of the party drank it dry so the venue didnt exactly miss out on much revenue.
I've also known people to take hip flasks, someone even bought one of those ties that has a hidden compartment in it specifically for sneaking drinks in.
Some people take their empty glasses up to their room and then come down with magically refreshed ones.
If the party is buzzing enough the staff aren't going to notice unless every single person attending does it

I don't think YABU but it's generally a younger persons thing to do

I'd rather people did that at my wedding, the bar didn't have a card machine so you had to go round to the reception to pay for your drinks, a lot of people didn't and we got lumped with a £200 bar bill when the bar staff finally figured out that people weren't paying! We were lucky they realised sooner rather than later because it could have been much higher

I don't get the girl in black reference pansyparkinson

Take it in a gift bag

I have!

My friends wedding I helped set up a few years ago. Spent hours in the AM before ceremony decorating the venue with helium balloons (they were a bit skint, so some of us offered our time/made cakes ect)

After a quick change at home, I wacked a bottle of wine and a few beers in a large tote bag to take. I knew there wouldn't be a free bar, and didn't want to be paying through the nose for drinks. I was very discreet though! And I wasn't the only one who did that either....

I always do this. Refill miniature gin bottles and just order tonic water

I did at a wedding where the couple don't drink wine but had made their own for their wedding . Took a case of what we usually drink in the car, tried a glass of the home brew, confirmed it was filth and then made sure we had a bottle of the good stuff under the table at all times. No one noticed.

Snobby, maybe. But they don't drink wine and there wasn't a bar as it was a DIY venue so it was unavoidable and made the whole night a bit easier.

I have at xmas do s. Very expensive castle type place and ten years ago a g&t set you back about £8.00. So handbag gin it was. These days I just don't bother going.
At our school prom kids got caught smuggling in... Litres of Coke because the robbing gits venue were charging nearly 4 quid for a pint of coke.

PansyParkinson - "Look closely at the girl in black."

I've looked at them both, I can't see anything.

Is she already drunk so has no need to smuggle?

Is she standing on a crate of beer that is hidden under her long dress?

Is the orange bag a fake one filled with wine, dispensed through the big orange flower?

The other girl in black seems to have only one leg? Does she have a false leg filled with tiny bottles hidden away?

Is one of those girls actually a fake, decoy girl? Like an inflatable woman filled with Prosecco and the others girls are dragging her around pretending she's their very drunk friend?

Whatever it is, they'd sneak past me without any trouble because I have no clue where they're hiding the alcohol in that photo.

@PansyParkinson I see it!!! Hahaha clever girl

For all other ladies still guessing, look the middle girls "purse"

Yeah I have. It was a moral dilemma but we were absolutely skint . The wedding was at the end of the month (before pay day) and we had a unexpected car repair bill and a boiler repair bill that month and we were down to our last tenner . The wedding was a full day and a payable bar throughout (at a hotel who is known to charge £4.80 for a pepsi) . We had vodka and rum in the cupboard so we put them in toddler drinks cups and were just extremely careful to make sure they didn't end up in the wrong hands .

If you've got a room, or know someone that has, take it up there and take it in turns to go and just refill your glasses. We went to a family wedding, DH, 3 kids and I - and a round was £20+ for mainly soft drinks. We now often decline evening invitations if the venue is a pricey one.

The girl in the middle has a huge hip flask instead of a handbag .

The watermelon idea is absolutely melon. How can you get it into a festival? Wouldn't security assume you brought a big knife to chop it up? HOW DID THIS EVEN WORK?

So many questions.

I'm poor, I bring my own booze to most social events! Never been caught yet.

Yes...we went to a hotel wedding in a Oxfordshire town on the main street. The cost of drinks was so high everyone hot footed it to the One Stop across the road, who had all their drinks chilled..

*mental - not melon ffs .

Me no had coffee, me make no sense.

The only good thing about weddings I've ever been to is alcohol is available on tap no matter your age (within reason). Why bother?

When people insist on holding their weddings in schmancy hotels with an extortionate bar, I can totally see why some people take their own.

look closely at the girl in black end of a wine bottle sticking out of her bag?

Jack, they searched bags for a wedding reception? Were they looking for alcohol or was it a security thing?

Crumbs, I take it you've never been to a wedding where drinks aren't free, you've not been at the meal but are a reception only guest or one where the couple have profited from the hotel rooms etc etc. Lucky you!

I can understand people doing it where the bar prices are extortionate, venues who are blatantly ripping people off should expect it.

Last wedding I went to my car became a bar, had spirits in the boot! So there was no risk of evidence being left behind

We had a hotel room and the car park was at the park, so you walked through the garden and there was aback entrance. So everyone kept their stash in their rooms...but a 'car bar' would of worked well.

Drink disguised as a gift is genious....

The wedding hostess went to retrieve her shoes from under the table and was confronted by lots of wine and spirit bottles and just went 'oops' but asked for then to be discreetly disposed of.

We either put it in the room if we're staying after, or in the car if we're not and it's parked in a convenient location. We don't do this often but have certainly done it on one or two occasions.

The girl in black's clutch bag is actually a big hip flask!

I did this once at a night out. Gift wrapped a wine box in lovely paper with ribbon etc. Cut a hole for where the tap was and stuck a big bow over it. Bow got removed to top up the wine and then replaced again. Worked a treat blush

That is genius. 😄

I used to take two refillable body shop spray bottles. Vodka in one and Tia Maria in the other. Loved my Black Russians. 😁

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?

The last wedding I went to, what was provided was a single glass of sparkling wine for the toast and a small glass of wine with the main course of the meal.
Excuse me very much for wanting a little more than that!