'Only water will be provided': Bridezilla only wants water at her wedding, gets roasted in the comments

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    Property - "AITA for having a dry wedding and serving only water for drinks?"
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    Font - AITA for having a dry wedding and serving only water for drinks? Throwaway only cause I don't want this on my main. Ok so basically my husband and I are getting married later this year. Each of our sides of the family are fairly big. It will be around 100-150 people total. My husband and I are paying for this all ourselves, as well as my grandma who said she doesn't care one way or the other on this issue. She just loves weddings.
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    Font - We have a lot of kids in our family so we decided against making it child-free but we did decide to make it dry. So there will be no alcohol of any kind at our wedding. Honestly, this doesn't have anything to do with there being kids there but due to the fact that my fiancé and I don't drink. Nothing against people who do, it's just not for us and we don't want to. On top of that, we only really drink water. We rarely, if ever, drink soda so most of the time it's only water with the occas
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    Font - So obviously the food (which is a part my grandma is not paying for) is going to be expensive for that many people. We are having our wedding catered so everyone will have a good choice of food to choose from but to drink only water will be provided. We don't want to have to pay for alcohol or soda, it is just an large added expense when we can just do filtered water for a MUCH cheaper cost.
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    Font - Well, when family and friends found out being got angry. Some didn't really care but some are really upset about it. Saying that I can just have an open bar so I don't have to pay for drinks (we could, but still have to pay for the bartender and we just really don't want to bother with alcohol there). Or we should at least have soda because how can we expect everyone to drink ONLY water? The kids will be upset. The wedding will be boring. That this is not how weddings work. Etc.
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    Font - So AITA? I didn't think this would be a problem! It's only water. I mean, don't most people drink water everyday anyway? Should we pay the extra to have soda to make the family happy?
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    Font - Sea Rise_1907. 22 hr. ago . edited 21 hr. ago 25 2 I know that technically you could be in the right, but here's the thing about weddings, the marriage ceremony is for you and your fiancé. The wedding is for everyone you've invited, it's an event you're hosting, and not providing any drinks other than water makes you a bad host/hostess.
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    Font - I've been to dry weddings. There was a couple that put real thought and effort into designing mocktails themed around their relationship. It was delightful and everyone connected to the couple through it. Another couple had a sparkling cider tower in place of champagne and everyone cheered with cider in flutes.
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    Font - When you're hosting an event, your job as hostess is to take care of your guests. Just because it follows a marriage ceremony doesn't make you any less the host of an event. And that means providing more than one drink option, especially non alcoholic. Especially to an event your guests are incurring expenses to attend and bringing gifts to.
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    Font - YTA honestly. I fully support a dry wedding but only water as a beverage is being a cheap host. 69.8k Reply Share
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    Font - Quirky-Honeydew-2541. 23 hr. ago I hope that in 20 years everyone still saying "you remember that wedding we had to smuggle in a 2 liter of pepsi" 27.9k Reply Share
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    Font - Heloise_Morris 22 hr. ago LOL, Half the guests will be in the parking lot during the reception, drinking cans of soda and juice, etc out of the trunk of someone's car and leave after dinner. 8.8k Reply
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    Font - Quirky-Honeydew- 2541 • 22 hr. ago . Seriously ppl will be passing around plastic water bottles filled with liquor like its high school all over again lol 5.3k Reply S
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    Font - OrlaCarey 22 hr. ago YTA - I don't have anything against dry weddings but surely you can offer something other than just water. Iced Tea? Lemonade? Something with flavor? When my cousin had a dry wedding she served sodas. Your guests are not likely to think it's very celebratory if you just serve water. And you would be surprised by the number of people who NEVER drink water, let alone do it at celebrations. 19.5k Reply Share
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    Font - Independent-Cat6915. 22 hr. ago As someone who only drinks water and the occassional tea, YTA. Not about making the wedding dry. That's perfectly fine. But d give people some options to drink. Some carbonated water if anything. 12.8k Reply Share
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    Font - Kagura0609 22 hr. ago YTA, not due to the no alcohol rule. I like drinking, but I can very much have a nice evening without it and whoever doesnt, should check if they have an alcohol problem. I think YTA because only water, no Soda, no juice, no coffee is totally bland and boring.
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    Font - Why do you even invite people? Why marry with (so many) guests at all? Just let it be the two of you and drink your boring water (and yes, I think of myself as a hydrohomie, but also as someone who loves having guests and spoiling them) 47.3k Reply Share
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    Font - slugbaby666 22 hr. ago right?? i was thinking the same thing, if you don't want to spend all that money on a wedding why not elope? 1.6k Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Designer_Ant8543. 23 hr. ago I wouldn't necessarily say YTA but your wedding sounds boring and I wouldn't want to go. 7.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Quirky-Honeydew-2541 23 hr. ago Sounds pretty brutal. How will they wash down their saltine and lettuce entrees? 5.4k Reply Share
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    Font - Walesgurl 22 hr. ago YTA. This is so bad it's funny. If you're not having alcohol, offer a variety of nice beverages to choose from...soft drinks, iced tea, a signature virgin cocktail, coffee/tea with dessert. If you cannot afford to properly host your guests, then you may in fact have too many guests. Or you need to cut costs in other ways. But treat your guests as though you actually want them to be there. 4.5k Reply Share

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