{"id":69447,"date":"2023-12-09T05:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T05:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/?p=69447"},"modified":"2023-12-09T05:41:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T05:41:01","slug":"we-didnt-serve-any-booze-at-our-wedding-if-any-guests-complained-they-wouldnt-be-true-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/lifestyle\/we-didnt-serve-any-booze-at-our-wedding-if-any-guests-complained-they-wouldnt-be-true-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We didn\u2019t serve any booze at our wedding – if any guests complained they wouldn\u2019t be true friends\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wine and weddings – they go together like love and marriage.<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s a fizzy toast to the bride and groom, a tipple with the meal or raising a glass as guests dance the night away, alcohol has always been a key part for any nuptials.<\/p>\n
Recently though there has been a rise in people choosing to go alcohol-free<\/u>, with more and more couples opting out of serving booze on their big day.<\/p>\n
Here, personal trainer Aimee Pearce, 39, from Sheffield, who has been alcohol-free<\/u> <\/u>since 2020, talks us through her alcohol-free journey and why she had a booze-free wedding day.<\/p>\n
"Stopping drinking on New Year's Day three years ago meant that when it came to planning my wedding to my husband Peter, a fizz-free wedding was a given.<\/p>\n
We didn't even discuss having alcohol when we got hitched because by then we'd not had a drink since before COVID. <\/p>\n
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None of our guests got annoyed when we told them to bring a bottle if they wanted – they are all supportive of us and accepted our decision. <\/p>\n
People did bring alcohol and drank a mixture of the drinks they brought and the alcohol-free options available.<\/p>\n
I know that if we had anyone asking why we'd made the choice to go alcohol-free I'd have questioned whether they were true friends of ours and asked why they were putting pressure on us to drink.<\/p>\n
We got married in 2022 and I have fond memories of our wedding because it was perfect and we were present in the moment, having conversations with people and enjoying their company.<\/p>\n
I can happily say that none of it was hazy and we were able to celebrate our love in the way we wanted at our own home. <\/p>\n
We had a ceremony on our drive after going to a registry office to get officially hitched and catered for our guests with a pizza tent and a van with drinks and snacks on it. <\/p>\n
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People came and went from our house all day and we woke up the next day feeling great and able to go out and do things together.<\/p>\n
I decided to stop drinking three years ago because I had a really bad hangover and I thought 'Right, that's it, I'm not touching a drop again.'<\/p>\n
I embarked on the journey with Peter as we found it was taking longer to recover after drinking and we couldn't do it anymore as we got older. <\/p>\n
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Although I didn't set out to completely stop drinking forever, that's what I've ended up doing – and it's had a positive impact on my life and mental health. <\/p>\n
My anxiety has decreased and I can get out and enjoy my days because I don't spend ages on the sofa hungover. <\/p>\n
I don't regret having alcohol-free nuptials at all and I don't miss winding down with a glass of wine because I have other coping mechanisms if I'm stressed now and I know that it would taste weird if I had a drink.<\/p>\n
"If you're thinking about cutting out the booze, just give it a go and don't worry about what other people think. You don't even have to tell people you're not drinking you can just cut it out of your life and feel better."<\/p>\n
Check out Aimee's website here<\/b>: www.aimeepearcept.co.uk<\/p>\n
Find Aimee on social medi<\/b>a @aimeepearcept<\/p>\n<\/p>\n