free drinks all night

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I'm planning a 40th birthday party with a close friend for about 100 people at a club. We will have a disco and food. She thinks we should also pay for all the drinks all night and it would be really stingy not to. I will really struggle to afford this. I'm happy to put money behind the bar but not the whole amount. I'm worried about this - I don't want to fall out about it. AIBU?

YANBU re; your party.

Re: some other comments - is it usual to have a free bar at a wedding then?

Can only think of one I've been to that had this and this was a v posh affair in knightsbridge.

At our wedding we had wine on tables, toast and then lots and lots of glasses of wine out on the bar in the evening but when it ran out it ran out.

I killed it stone dead!

(caramel gives CPR to thread. Hard stare at ELC )

Op - It is about affordability. If you can not afford it, you can not do it. YANBU.

I've had the misfortune to go to a couple of events that were notable for the number of idiots in attendance and the free bar. A combination that wasn't edifying.

Normally I don't socialise with fuckwits who treat the idea of not paying for their alcohol as a challenge to drink everything not nailed down but equally, when going to weddings or bigger parties I don't automatically expect a free bar. For the sort of party the OP describes most people would expect a couple of drinks on the house and then a pay bar. The cost of a free bar for 100 guests in a club will run into thousands I'd have thought and that's without any competitive drinkers.