BYOB Wedding
I am helping to plan a halloween wedding for some close (but budget concerned) friends of mine and have hit a road block with the invites that I am doing from home. The bride would like the reception to be B.Y.O.B. There will be food and non-alcoholic beverages served, but she doesn`t want to have to supply all of our friends who would perfer spirits to food any day of the week, let alone on halloween.
We thought about doing a cash-bar but thought the idea of everyone bringing their favorite drink would be more cost effective on the guests, (because we all know times are tight) they wouldn`t have to pay for their drinks at $3.00+ a pop.
I was wondering what would be a better way to indicate this on the invitations??? B.Y.O.B. Reminds me too much of a frat party or something. I am leaning towards "light reception to follow..." but I am not sure if that will get the point across.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Posted by KCD; updated 08/16/04
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You could say tea and treats maybe?
Posted by sabrina; updated 08/16/04
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Honestly I think you may want to rethink a BYOB wedding. First I really do not believe there is going to be a nice way to say BYOB that people would understand. You also may want to check with the hall because some will not let you bring in your own alchol. Where are people going to store there spirits? Are there going to be coolers lining the wall. I understand you may want to be sensative to people money issues but if an open bar is not an option I would go with the cash bar.
Posted by Janine; updated 08/17/04
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Definitely nix the byob idea. It`s just a bad idea all around.
Posted by Linda; updated 08/21/04