Goomba38 wrote:
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> When I've researched this, in my area, open bar is a set fee or cost no
> matter how many drinks the guests have. I've been quoted $11 to
> $15/person (and you do pay for everyone if they drink alcohol or not!)
> but there is no limit to the number of drinks during the arranged hours.
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> Was your nephew being charged a per drink basis, and then the staff
> wasting the half finished drinks?

Yes. That was the problem. They would go up and get a drink that was being
charged for per drink, then when they left the table the staff would come
over and remove the glass with the rest of their drink it it.

> I'd be angry about that too. When my
> father paid for my wedding's open bar it was at a military club and they
> just ran a tab that my father approved of and when it was depleted they
> got approval for x amount of dollars more as needed.

Military clubs tend to charge affordable prices for drinks. When we got
married we had the reception at my wife's parent's house. They set up a
marquis tent and had drinks and canapés. My father in law bought the booze
and hired a bartender to serve it. What ever was left over he kept, and
there wasn't that much.