Open Bar Wedding Cost Reddit

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Open bar wedding cost reddit. Is an open bar wedding worth the cost. We ve all been to more than one wedding where the only people seeming to have fun are the wedding party. That s the nightmare of everyone involved. We are having a quick pre wedding beer wine hour short only 30 mins before wedding a regular cocktail hour 1 hour followed by dinner with open bar till the runs out then switch to cash bar.

I m looking to get an estimate as to what our open bar will cost. They also obtain this average wedding cost from brides who read bridal magazines and are more likely to have the kind of weddings that would be featured in a bridal magazine in 2012 when the average wedding cost was 27 427 the median was 18 086. Serving beer and wine only will save you some money with most caterers typically costing 11 to 33 per person for four hours. The wedding is at salem cross inn in central ma and it s for 150 people well that s the minimum number of plates we have to pay for likely we ll have 140 people show.

100 guest wedding our choices were 3 800 for open bar 950 for wine beer soda or 700 for beer soda for 4 hours. Again just trying to gauge how far our money will go before guests have to start paying. From a sample of wedding sites across the u s open bar costs typically range from 15 to 90 per person for a four hour reception. Mixed drinks 6 00 to 8 50.

Open bars were a big hit at weddings in 2019 with 54 or over half of all couples offering guests an open bar complete with beer wine and liquor at the reception. Not wine and beer and the open bar went until about 10 30 with last call being at 11 45. In other instances about 24 percent of all couples went the route of serving beer and wine at the wedding without an open bar option. My cousin had a friday night wedding cocktail hour starting at 7 30pm with a open bar with up to a limit of 3k.

Bar is based on consumption. In 2011 when the average was 27 021 the median was 16 886. In most cases you can upgrade to premium liquors for 3 or 4 more per person. Once it reached that limit it went to a cash bar.