Bridezilla Limits Guests to 2 Drinks at Wedding That Must Be Consumed at Assigned Seat, Doesn't Understand Why It's Causing Family Drama: 'I didn't think it would be this big of a deal'

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    • r/AmltheAsshole ⚫ 11 hr. ago Glad_Wedding_4431 AITA for not offering bar at my wedding? an open
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    My fiancé and my wedding invites have started arriving, along with the invites is a few things we felt we should outline before the guests arrive to the reception. We have decided to not include an open bar. I come from an alcoholic heavy family and simply don't
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    feel comfortable being around people who are drinking heavily. Instead, my fiancé and I have decided to have a drink ticket like service instead. With that service we've been able to customize how we want alcoholic beverages being handled at our reception and the venue says this kind
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    of service happens all the time there, it was their suggestion in fact, so I didn't think it would be this big of a deal. With the invitations was a card with the expectations one is to expect from the ceremony and the reception. I didn't
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    want to shock people when they arrived so I figured the cards would be a nice, classy heads up for our guests. The drink service bit of the card said, essentially, that alcoholic drinks were limited to two per of age guest, the "tickets" are non-transferable, and like the other beverages offered would
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    need to be ordered from your seat at your assigned table. Drinks were also to be enjoyed at your assigned table. I've been called a lot of things after family (both sides) and friends are receiving their cards. My fiancé has as well but a little less so. The most
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    common being "bridezilla" but I did have an uncle reach out to me and I'm an for trying to, "spoil the say fun of a wedding reception." The response has been mostly negative and has been from all sides of family and friends and now my head is swirling as
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    I try to figure out what to do. So, AITA because I've set my reception up like this and am not offering an open bar instead?
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    jrm1102 11h ago Sultan of Sphincter [952] ΥΤΑ Drinks were also to be enjoyed at your assigned table Your ticket plan went from moderately novel to aggressively controlling the more you explained it. Are you going to have security tackle Aunt Joan if she gets out of her chair with a glass of chard in her hand?
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    IrrelevantManatee • . 11h ago Edited 11h ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [33] Your title is misleading. It's totally OK to not have an open bar at a wedding. Even limiting consumption is kinda ok. But forcing people to drink it sitting at their assigned table?! That's over controlling. Just seems like you want your guests to jump through hoops for you for no good reasons than because you can because you are the bride. YTA.
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    snarkitall • 9h ago just have a dry wedding if you're so uncomfortable around alcohol or if your family. is that untrustworthy around it.
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    • BulbasaurRanch 11h ago Edited 7h ago Commander in Cheeks [211] Yeah, this is taking it overboard. You can not have alcohol at your wedding if you want (people will leave early, so be prepared). But thinking you get to decide where they can have their drinks? Bizarre and controlling. You can't reasonably limit people to their table like this. I'm gonna go with YTA, cause this is ridiculous Your wedding sounds like an unenjoyable event to attend with so many restrictions for your "guests" being
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    Big Big Big Tree • 11h ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [45] Drinks were also to be enjoyed at your assigned table. ??? This isn't classy, this is weird and condescending. Like you're worried a 4 year old will spill his juice. YTA for that, even though in general a drink-ticket plan seems reasonable.
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    • applebum8807 11h ago Edited 11h ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [41] Eh, It's one thing to not have an open bar, and I can get behind the drink tickets, but you start to become ridiculous at "you can only order and drink at your assigned table." Like I'm sorry but it sounds like the wedding is taking place in a school cafeteria. YTA
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    runtheroad • 10h ago Partassipant [1] YTA - I don't even drink that often and this is just weird. I'm sure they host corporate dinners with this policy all the time, but to enforce this on your friends and family like you're paying them is bizarre. If alcohol makes you that uncomfortable just don't have it, don't treat your wedding guests like they are going to the work holiday party.
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