No hard Liquor allowed at venue

My brother and SIL‘s venue had the same rules. They informed guests, but it did not stop them from bringing their own. I would say at least 60% of the guests brought flasks and had bottles in their cars to refill them.

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Did they have any repercussions with the venue for bringing hard alcohol

View Quoted Comment No, nothing was ever said by the venue. I don’t think they even realized the liquor was there tbh. Everyone kept their flasks out of sight for the most part. They would order sodas then take them back to their tables and pour liquor in them. The main drawback was that people would go out to their cars to refill, then congregate in the parking lot. There would be groups of 10-20 people out in the parking lot, instead of inside celebrating.

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Our venue is at least a 800 ft walk to the parking lot so maybe that will help lol. we have a golf cart for moving people. and there is no bar its just gonna be coolers.

Our venue only allowed beer and wine - we just didn't tell people. No one missed having liquor there.

Guests don’t ever need to know ahead of time what is or is not being served unless you are having them pick a meal. Too late to do anything at this point. If people are notorious in the past for breaking rules, then you telling them not to bring something makes it that much more exciting and taboo. Many venues require security and they do have venue staff on site to monitor that rules are being followed. Better to avoid the violence than to be fined for damages and other lawsuits. If people are that hostile and can’t function without alcohol, that is a them problem and they are better off declining the invitation or not being invited in the first place. I went to a wedding once where the bride’s brother was a violent alcoholic and he was not invited because he would cause a scene otherwise.


Many sites also require that you have a licensed bartender anytime alcohol is served. To control consumption and cut off people who are intoxicated which they are required by law to do.
For our guests, no hard alcohol would be a hard pass because they don’t drink beer/wine and they also don’t get sloppy drunk either at social events. I personally don’t understand the stigma against liquor because people can and do get drunk just as easily on beer/wine by itself.

Just read through your contract regarding the hard liquor. Some venues are very strict where they will implement a fee for just having it when they said no.. It happened to a friend of mine who booked a venue or a different type of event. And then some are more relaxed and will tell you to get rid of it or just let it go (as long as nothing gets broken and what not).
The last wedding I went to back in the beginning of 2020, the bride and groom had a time frame for open bar because they didn't want people to get too crazy at their wedding. Then after that they did a cash bar in which worked out because the bar area calmed down where people slowed down on their drinks and nobody got super drunk

View Quoted Comment For our wedding we don’t have a bar at all at our venue and we are just doing 3 bottles of wine at a table for 8 people since the only underage people attending still can’t walk😂. We will have coolers of beer but there’s only 80 people and most don’t drink except for our immediate family.