dilemma

No, but if you're the sort of sad individual who'd put a hobby above his daughter then you might.

Summerisle

My sister did something similar, I disappeared away round all the Good Beer Guide listed pubs in town with all my cousins (bar one). On return the one stay back told me I'd upset my new brother in law. Indeed I had - because I hadn't invited him. :-)

Besides - *daughter* - sounds like you're paying and surely that contributes to the location decision.

Following on from snipped-for-privacy@aol.com's message. . .

Yes (Probably)

(A) Not to turn up 'cos you can't get good beer makes people think you're addicted and "the beer has got the better of you".

Make a point of drinking pints of water. (B) People will ask you why, and you can wax lyrical about the joys of Real Ale - Appearing as a committed expert rather than as in (A) a sad crank. (C) Enjoy the martyrdom (D) Prove to all and sundry that you can go 24 hours without a drink - Make the effort to at least imply that /although you'd really love some RA right now/ you can manage quite happily as this is nothing unusual.

• Don't be seduced by wine instead! You'll drink it like beer and make a fool of yourself.
• Being sober at this sort of 'do' is interesting - You wonder why on earth people do them and you'll be in a good position to spot the fight before it starts and vacate the premises in good time.

Alternatively, if daughter is expecting you to pay for it point out that unless /arrangements are made!!!/ that's another few hundred on _her_ credit card.

HTH

I don't know, young people today... You could take a personal supply of decent bottled stuff :-)

Congratulations BTW Bill. I should have guessed you'd be lurking in this ng given your many beer references in utb...

Best regards, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

Steven Pampling a écrit :

It all sounds pretty reasonable to me, Steve. :o)

Peter Fox a écrit :

I can second that, except for the fight bit, which isn't much of a tradition down here... But having had to attend such dos where no beer whatsoever was at hand, I can vouch it is extremely interesting being one of the few sober people around when alcohol gets at those brains. :o)

Cheers !

Laurent

My son did the same thing and I went - mind you there was a fortnight in the Caribbean to soften the blow!

In message , " snipped-for-privacy@aol.com" wrote

No.

Bill, a son-in-law that cannot climb onto roofs, be crippled by car park barriers or drink Real Ale will not improve the Wright gene pool..

NO!

You should throw strong acid in her face for that.

The hotel where my brother had his do let us supply our own bottled stuff, which they then sold back to us(!).

I once went to a dry wedding, but an escape committee made it to the nearest pub and back without being missed.

I even organised my first wedding reception in a Banks's pub, and what did the best man do? Pissed off to the Springfield Brewery Tap, that's what!

We got married 2 years ago in a barn with no real ale at the bar. But we sure as hell got some in for it, 4 firkins worth.

Just get hold of the pub and tell them to get some in for the event, they can rack it on the bar the night before and have it at least better than boddies...