Drinks for wedding guests

[stopthenoise]

OK, we're getting married next August in a hotel. We're on a really tight budget and got an all in deal for just over £1000. The only thing it doesn't include is drinks. We can pay extra for a drink for the speeches and meal and obviously buy bottles of wine for the table but their prices are ridiculous. I think we should at least add a drink for the speeches and meal but OH thinks we shouldn't because of the cost. His thinking is what we would pay for drinks could go towards something more important. He said if people want drinks they can get them, they should be coming to share our day not for a free piss up In a way he's right but I don't think our guests should go dry! Any advice?

[NoComet]

Yes please to a bottle of lemonade or a carton of orange juice for non drinkers.

It's an utter pain sitting down to dinner and then realisig some one is going to have to go to the bar for drinks for DD2 and my non drinking Ddad.

DD1 drinks DDads share of the wine/champagne, I pretend not to notice.