Passing the bar

There seems to be a new twist to the time old tradition of getting married.
Many of my couples are now visiting a bar in between the ceremony and reception. I have to ask why? Since when is saying "I do" a prerequisite for "Let's get drunk?" I don't understand the whys nor do I want to. There is no way around this etiquette--bad manners is just bad manners.

Keeping your guests waiting while you are taking shots in a local pub; getting your dress filthy with spilled liquor, grabbing hands, and staining food is not the way to start married life. You have guests and family waiting for you and you are starting the party without them? Driving around town, acting like fools while your guests wait for the newly married couple to make their entrance? And then when they do get to the reception site, they are drunk!

Now there's an entrance for you; the bride is so drunk that she promptly throws up upon entering the ballroom. I was mortified, the bride's mother was in tears, the groom completely wasted & laughing at his bride, and the mother in law disgusted with her new daughter. I can tell you that this was a rocky start and it only went down hill from there. Guests were very sad and mad. It didn't take them long after the dinner was served before most cleared out and the only people left were those too drunk to care.

It would have been better for the couple to spend their money eloping to
Las Vegas than to embarrass their guests and themselves.