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Alcohol Question?
My shower is generously being hosted at a restaurant with about 40 people invited,Is it rude for the hostess not to have an open bar and to just do bottles of wine?
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Re: Alcohol Question?
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DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Not at all. Serve wine or champagne - or just soft drinks and juices.
Most of the showers I've been to the options were either just bottles of wine and/or big pitchers of Mimosas. If guests wanted some other alcohol they had to pay for it themselves (I have only seen that happen at one shower). I think that since most showers are around brunch, or early afternoon just wine is fine.
I think providing bottles of wine is more than generous. My hosts paid for sodas, coffee, teas and juice, but no alcohol. Some people drank but they just had to pay as a cash bar for those.
I don't think most people expect a hosted bar of any sort at a baby shower. At least I don't!
Personally I don't like having alcohol at a baby shower, but to each their own. If I knew there would be something alcoholic then I would expect it to be something like wine or champaigne, not an open bar. So no, I would not find it rude.
I don't see anything wrong with wine and/or mimosas at a shower. Just because the mom can't drink doesn't mean the guests can't. I was at a very classy shower for a distant relative which was being held at a country club when I was 18 weeks and I just had orange juice while we were all mingling and then iced tea and water during lunch. It was no big deal, I didn't care that women were drinking alcohol around me, the guest of honor didn't look upset either.
I wouldn't be offering beer or hard stuff...you know like vodka and mixers, I think that's a bit much for a shower. Wine, champagne and mimosas are okay in my book.