Need your advice: I am planning a birthday party for my husband.?

It will be his 34. Anyway I want to have it at a local bar. I am: renting a pool table and provide food .


What should I do about the drinks. These guys can drink. So I don't want to pay for all the drinks or all the beer. They don't sell pitchers of beer either.


Should I just pay for the 1st and 2nd round? Will that be good enough?Need your advice: I am planning a birthday party for my husband.?
I think this whole idea is a potential disaster. While the odds may favor that everything will go fine, there is the possibility that someone gets in a wreck and somebody gets killled on the way home from the party. Having thrown the party and yet failed to provide a way home for the drunken guests may be enough to prove you liable for bankrupting-type damages. Personally, I would never host a party at a bar and I would never provide drinks to the party-goers.Need your advice: I am planning a birthday party for my husband.?
put some money behind the bar then when its gone they can buy their own drinks i've done that a few times and it works pretty well
One of the ways you can limit your expenses in the liquor dept. is to purchase ahead of time from the restaurant, a set amount of tickets . As each guest arrives, hand them 1-2 tickets and their first drink(s) are on you and the rest is up to them. You can also ask if the restaurant has what they would call a 'corking fee', meaning; you bring your own stuff and they will charge you a small amount for opening it there. If a corking fee suits you, you may add to the invitation a 'no gifts please' and BYOB.


One last thing; go into his classmates.com account and invite people he talks about, but has not done anything about initiating communication.
If it's at a bar you are not obligated to buy the drinks. Appetizers and snacks would be just fine. Have fun!
I think you should just stick to providing the food. Anyone that goes to a birthday party in a bar, knows they are paying for their own drinks. Plus you are liable if you pay for the drinks. Actually, you would split the liability with the bar because they should know when to cut someone off. Just pay for you and your husbands drinks.





Have Fun!
I think you should have it somewhere where you can buy pitchers or have a pony keg
Good idea on paying for just the first two rounds. Keep in mind that most of your hubby's friends will buy his drinks, so you know they won't come to the party expecting not to spend money.
hell No just pay for your husbands drink cuz if folks know you paying they will order the most expensive thing they can buy opps i mean you can buy (get it) so just get your husbands
Best idea is to choose a different venue that serves pitchers.





Otherwise, go ahead and buy the first round, plus food. If no one abuses your hospitality by ordering a $25 cognac, go ahead and pay for a second round. After that they are on their own.





As far as the guest list, try to refrain from being in control on this one. Let HIM decide the guest list. Otherwise you are inviting disaster.





The good thing about having it at a bar is that you are not responsible for how much the guests drink. The bartender is. And when they get drunk and obnoxious, its not your job to throw them out.