GF Dessert Party - Could you BYOB?

[KMS'sGlassSlipper]

We are having a dessert party at Sago Cay as our "rehearsal dinner." Does anyone know if it would be possible to bring a cooler with our own alcoholic drinks there?

 

[lurkyloo]

Technically, all food and beverage must be obtained through Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings, and bringing your own will incur a corkage fee.

 

[KMS'sGlassSlipper]

Thanks! That's what I thought, but DF was wondering. I was just curious, because you could just walk over to the Gasparilla Grill and Games, and buy a beer? Just seems a little odd to me in that location, kind of how you can get a drink in EPCOT and bring it to a dessert party there. However, with EPCOT, you can't bring your own alcohol in the park, yet you could have your own alcohol at the hotel... just all the technicalities I look at (that's the lawyer in me!).

Are the package prices for the dessert parties the same as the reception?

 

[KMS'sGlassSlipper]

I mean alcohol packages...

Sorry for the rambling thought about bringing your own alcohol...

 

[lurkyloo]

Started already?

Yes, the bar package prices are the same at every kind of event. You'd probably spend less if you did BOC than a package, if that helps.

 

[KMS'sGlassSlipper]

Haha! Thanks for your help... sometimes all this wedding stuff gets to me and my thoughts don't quite make sense when they are typed out...

Basically is what I was thinking was that I heard someone say that at EPCOT dessert party guests had the option of purchasing an alcoholic beverage from EPCOT and they could bring that back to the dessert party. This means that I would imagine that the guests at Sago Cay would have the same option (i.e. getting a drink from Gasparilla Grill or a bar around) and bringing it back to the dessert party. Since the dessert party is not at the park, and I am a guest at the hotel that may have alcohol in my room, that means that I could possibly bring a beer to the dessert party that I had already purchased. So I was wondering why it wouldn't be possible to bring your own beverages to the dessert party at Grand Floridian... just some thinking going on in my head... I hope that explains my thoughts a little more clearly than my last rambling...

 

[Sccrmnky2005]

I'm interested in this too... What is the corkage fee compared to have a bar?? We would only have about 30-35 for the rehearsal dinner and not sure how many would really want to drink too much before the wedding I'd prob like to have a few glasses of wine, but nothing more than that.

 

[qtsugarangl]

If I remember correctly from Passporters....the corkage fee is $20 per bottle, but then there is also a $2.50 per drink charge for mixers and such that they use if anyone orders a mixed drink.
DF and I thought we had the alcohol covered since he works for a distributing company until we read that. Now I have to crunch numbers and see which would be cheaper.
HTH

 

[Sccrmnky2005]

If I remember correctly from Passporters....the corkage fee is $20 per bottle, but then there is also a $2.50 per drink charge for mixers and such that they use if anyone orders a mixed drink.
DF and I thought we had the alcohol covered since he works for a distributing company until we read that. Now I have to crunch numbers and see which would be cheaper.
HTH

Thank you. So if we bring a few bottles of wine ourselves and pay the corkage fee of $20 per bottle will they provide us the wine glasses. I don't think it's needed to have a ton of alcohol for this right before the big day. I know some people will enjoy a glass of wine or two. Hmmm... must think about it now.

What if we do an open bar for an hour or how ever long the dessert party is cutting it off at the last 30 mintues or so. How long do the dessert parties even last??

 

[qtsugarangl]

Dessert parties last for one hour, they start 30 minutes before the fireworks. You can extend the party by 30 mins at no extra charge, if you want to extend the food or beverages for more then the hour then there will be a charge.

 

[lurkyloo]

Haha! Thanks for your help... sometimes all this wedding stuff gets to me and my thoughts don't quite make sense when they are typed out...

Basically is what I was thinking was that I heard someone say that at EPCOT dessert party guests had the option of purchasing an alcoholic beverage from EPCOT and they could bring that back to the dessert party. This means that I would imagine that the guests at Sago Cay would have the same option (i.e. getting a drink from Gasparilla Grill or a bar around) and bringing it back to the dessert party. Since the dessert party is not at the park, and I am a guest at the hotel that may have alcohol in my room, that means that I could possibly bring a beer to the dessert party that I had already purchased. So I was wondering why it wouldn't be possible to bring your own beverages to the dessert party at Grand Floridian... just some thinking going on in my head... I hope that explains my thoughts a little more clearly than my last rambling...

Sorry I didn't see this in time to answer you before your wedding—hope everything turned out OK! What you say is true. It is not condoned by Disney of course, but there really isn't any way to stop it.