Do you bring your own drink to weddings?

kbell · 29-08-2013 05:06PM #1

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 · 29-08-2013 05:09PM

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 · 29-08-2013 05:10PM

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 · 29-08-2013 05:11PM

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

MadsL · 29-08-2013 05:13PM

*adjusts monocle*

Pay for drinks at a wedding? How déclassé!

petes · 29-08-2013 05:15PM

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 · 29-08-2013 05:16PM

yes i bring my own flagons

RachaelVO · 29-08-2013 05:17PM

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

29-08-2013 05:52PM

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 · 29-08-2013 05:53PM

Of course not.

Son Of A Vidic · 29-08-2013 05:54PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:02PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:07PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:12PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:17PM

RachaelVO wrote: »

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

You can bring 6 clutch bags

dmc17 · 29-08-2013 06:18PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:21PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:22PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:23PM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

You can bring 6 clutch bags

Clutch Gold.

MadYaker · 29-08-2013 06:25PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:25PM

Tampon soaked in cooking sherry, Bobs your uncle.

enda1 · 29-08-2013 06:27PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Tampon soaked in cooking sherry, Blobs your uncle.

FYP:D

I am pie · 29-08-2013 06:30PM

A sad reflection on drinking culture in Ireland.

MadYaker · 29-08-2013 06:36PM

Wrong thread!

kbell · 29-08-2013 06:36PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:39PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:40PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Tampon soaked in cooking sherry, Bobs your uncle.

Classy!

gifted · 29-08-2013 06:49PM

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 · 29-08-2013 06:57PM

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 · 29-08-2013 07:12PM

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 · 29-08-2013 07:18PM

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.

Do you bring your own drink to weddings?

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