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Re: Doing away with the wedding breakfast
« Reply #60 on: January 03, 2020, 09:03:56 am »
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I suspect the staff was indeed requested to serve the couples remaining at the table while the single people were balloon game engaged.

You're assuming then that this whole episode was devised with hostile intent toward all the couple's single friends and relations? Because while plenty of people who enjoy this kind of game are thoughtless and insensitive enough to assume that everybody else does and will be happy to play it to order, pretty much nobody who serves "premium spirits" assumes that people will be happy to be deprived of it while everyone else is getting.   

I have a hard time envisaging a bridal couple saying to each other, 'After dinner, let's make all the single guests play a silly embarrassing game while everyone else sits laughing at them, and we'll have the MC call them up by name so none of them can get out of it. And we'll have the 10-year-old scotch served while they're doing it, so when they get back to their table they'll find they've missed out. That will be fun, tee-hee!''

I can see them saying "That will be cheaper, tee-hee." Not necessarily out of malice, but because someone has suggested it as a way of cutting costs.