Do you bring your own drink to weddings?

kbell

I always do, saves a fortune and the savings can fund the weekend especially if you're staying the night or two in the reception hotel.

Banjo String

kbell wrote: »

I always do, saves a fortune and the savings can fund the weekend especially if you're staying the night or two in the reception hotel.

No.

Mainly beacuse I dont fancy being known as 'that tight arsed whore who brought in the naggin'.

:cool:

kneemos

kbell wrote: »

I always do, saves a fortune and the savings can fund the weekend especially if you're staying the night or two in the reception hotel.

Thrifty.

The Backwards Man

No. If I think the drink is too expensive somewhere I just don't drink or I go elsewhere.

MadsL

*adjusts monocle*

Pay for drinks at a wedding? How déclassé!

petes

The Backwards Man wrote: »

No. If I think the drink is too expensive somewhere I just don't drink or I go elsewhere.

Elsewhere at a wedding? Defeating the purpose of going, no?

Was at a wedding before in a small town. We nipped in to a couple of pubs during the reception. Nothing to do with the price of it or anything.

SEPT 23 1989

yes i bring my own flagons

RachaelVO

Nah, can't hide a six pack in my clutch bag now can I...

I'm certainly not afraid to bring the hipflask on a night out etc but there are a few places I would not do it. The local pub being one and a wedding being another.

enda1

Of course not.

Son Of A Vidic

kbell wrote: »

Do you bring your own drink to weddings?

Let me guess, you probably turn your underwear inside out to get an extra few days outta them.

rubadub

from a thread a while ago

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

I was at a wedding last year and while we were all sitting down, having dinner the hotel staff searched the rooms and the bags of the guests for drink and confiscated it. I wasn't staying in the hotel, but if I had been I would have personally lost the plot over this, someone rooting through my bags, invading privacy. There was no warning given that this would happen given to the bride and groom either.

It was a great day and everything else was really top notch, but I would have no interest in ever going back there again, left a bad taste in my mouth.

Some will bring food/snacks into hotels too, but I doubt that act would get the same response.

ancapailldorcha

I used to work in a hotel. Did my head in when people did this. Something about people dressed up in their best clothes going for a free meal and party then reaching under a table for a can of Fosters just infuriates me.

MonaPizza

kbell wrote: »

I always do, saves a fortune and the savings can fund the weekend especially if you're staying the night or two in the reception hotel.

Absolutely!

If you're staying in a nice guest hotel in the country then once you get there fill up the fridge in the room with cans, wine, snacks, etc. Go to the church...do the trick...then pints in the pub after while they're all doing the photo thing. Then back to the hotel to get changed out of the good suit into the "drinking suit" (more comfortable formal garb...slacks, shirt, tie, the gear you don't mind getting messed up on the dance floor) and have a couple of cans while you're at that....then back down to party. Usually go one pint in the bar that you pay for....then up to the room with one or two others for a can and a cigarette outside. Then back to the party..rinse, repeat.
Wouldn't bring my own booze to the wedding party per se....that's knackerish.

Next morning there's the makings of a bloody mary in the fridge too

Richard Hillman

RachaelVO wrote: »

Nah, can't hide a six pack in my clutch bag now can I...

You can bring 6 clutch bags

dmc17

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I used to work in a hotel. Did my head in when people did this. Something about people dressed up in their best clothes going for a free meal and party then reaching under a table for a can of Fosters just infuriates me.

Couldn't agree more....... Fosters is muck!

MrTsSnickers

rubadub wrote: »

from a thread a while ago


Some will bring food/snacks into hotels too, but I doubt that act would get the same response.

If someone went through my bag in a hotel and thought chewing gum was inappropriate I would certainly have a less than polite response.

lahalane

I wouldn't because surely you'd have to drink in your room then away from everybody else or sneak it in, which also doesn't appeal to me. I wouldn't care about the stinginess tag you'd be left with. I admire people for being tight with their money mostly.

Super-Rush

Richard Hillman wrote: »

You can bring 6 clutch bags

Clutch Gold.

MadYaker

No! Maybe a few cans might be ok but I've never done it. As for drinking cans at the dinner, that embarrassing really.

suicide_circus

Tampon soaked in cooking sherry, Bobs your uncle.

enda1

suicide_circus wrote: »

Tampon soaked in cooking sherry, Blobs your uncle.

FYP:D

I am pie

A sad reflection on drinking culture in Ireland.

MadYaker

Wrong thread!

kbell

Couple of 6 packs and a bottle of wine in the room, fairly softens the financial blow of paying for overpriced and usually piss poor pints in the function room bar.
Between Stags/hens and presents, days off work etc.. the cost of a wedding to a guest can be astronomical.

RachaelVO

Richard Hillman wrote: »

You can bring 6 clutch bags

Fair point... I could say Im minding other peoples bags!

You're a smarty pants!

RachaelVO

suicide_circus wrote: »

Tampon soaked in cooking sherry, Bobs your uncle.

Classy!

gifted

was at a wedding 2 years ago in Waterford and was charged €5.70 for a bottle of Bud...wish I had brought my own drink back then...have lost "faith" in that place since

Hooked

Hell ya I do.

I'm fcuked if I'm paying for whisky at the bar. Two hip flasks and I'm ready to go. Or a few bottles in the room. Been to three weddings this year and I wasn't the only one packing sauce. Most of the lads and partners had stuff in the rooms.

Was at a wedding once where we had 3 x 1 litre bottles of spirits under our table. Sure the food, pints, room and Gift cost a fortune. I'm hardly a 'tight arse'...

I just don't see the point of forking out nearly a fiver a short - and like to crash out in the room for an hour, shower and back down for dancing and late bar.

Sleepy

If I'm ever in Druids Glen for a wedding again, I will: €6.50 for a shite pint of Guinness!

Have left bottles in rooms/car boots for the after residents bar party in the past alright but have never brought it nto the function room.

rubadub

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I used to work in a hotel. Did my head in when people did this. Something about people dressed up in their best clothes going for a free meal and party then reaching under a table for a can of Fosters just infuriates me.

Most give a gift of €100-150 a head which is considered by many to have covered the "free meal".

I would say going to a wedding is more understandable than normal hotel customers, as many people may not really have the cash and feel obliged to go, and may have far greater travel expenses going to an out of they way hotel they would not have selected. You mentioned yourself the best clothes, many rented or bought new.

I am pie wrote: »

A sad reflection on drinking culture in Ireland.

its more a reflection of the price discrepancies between off sales and on sales.

gifted wrote: »

was at a wedding 2 years ago in Waterford and was charged €5.70 for a bottle of Bud.

20 bottles are €18 in tesco, I have seen them for less. Thats 90c, so 6.33 times the price. The pubs & hotel can legally buy from the supermarkets, many do, though some seem to think its illegal or they work on special vat or duty rates -this ignorance is understandable as they figure there has to be something to explain the difference.

A small 40gram pot of pringles is 1.19 in tesco, if the hotels & pubs charged €7.53 for a small tub of pringles and equivlent hikes on other snacks I expect people would stash them in too -especially if they plan on eating 10+ of these snacks over the course of the day.

If I was staying in the hotel for the night, I'd have drink in the room. If it's local I just buy at the bar.

ongarboy

In fairness though, how many weddings a year would you generally go to (2-3 max)? -maybe more if you're in the late 20s/early 30s brackets when lots of mates are getting married. Surely, it's so occasional an outing that most can tolerate with paying bar prices for the one night that's in it? If it really is down to being absolutely unable to afford it, then I think I'd pass on attending the wedding altogether or just limit my drink.

I can understand bringing own drink on a regular night out or having a few drinks from the offy in your hotel room but sneaking drinks under the table in the main reception area where there's also a chance you know or are related to many other guests who might spot you - just comes across really cheap. It would look a bit morto if the bride or groom spotted you too (unless they do that sort of thing themselves:)).

Also in weddings, at least the ones I attend, there's a tendency to buy rounds for the mini group or table you might be hanging out with, old friends or relatives you haven't seen in ages. Do you really want to be seen sneaking swigs of your can or naggin under the table while they company you're in are in rounds?

Quazzie

I always wrap a box of Miller in wedding wrapping paper and leave it at my table. If people see it, they just assume it's a gift, but little do they know it was my drink for the night in it

UCDVet

The markup on alcohol is insane....I feel no guilt in buying something at 1/10th to 1/100th the cost and consuming that which I legally own.