PSA: Serve Alcohol at Your Wedding

It is sad to see so many negative comments about this. I'm having a dry wedding because of my family circumstances. Unfortunately a lot of my family members are alcoholics and become aggressive and violent with alcohol. We have had family gatherings end horribly due to alcohol. My mothers reception was ruined due to drunk family as well. Don't be so insensitive to peoples circumstances and judge them and automatically disregard a beautiful wedding for the absence of alcohol. I've been to several dry wedding and alcohol has never been a factor on how much I enjoyed myself. My favorite thing about a wedding is the love of the couple and the purpose of everyone being there which is to witness the commitment of two people who love each other with their whole hearts. The wedding politics and telling people that there are things that are not acceptable is bull crap. Remember the purpose of the wedding in the first place.

Whatever.

I personally think that the purpose of any wedding bigger than two people in the part is to host a group of people you love well. And that usually includes a glass of wine or two. And it rarely ends in a violent fist fight in the parking lot. I don't really think it's fair to subject large groups of well behaved adults to a dry wedding because you have a few people who can't control themselves (and will probably find a way to get drunk anyway.....)

Maybe you should not invite your family.

Well we are having a dry wedding reception. Besides being super expensive literally only about 5% of our guest list drinks alcohol. It doesn't make sense to pay the exorbitant price for alcohol when the number of people wont drink enough to make it worth it.