Other places should hold wedding socials. You rent out a hall for a big party where you invite and sell tickets to the people you know and your friends and family will also sell tickets to their friends and family. People buy cheap drink tickets, there are prizes people buy tickets too and various snack foods. Food is required to be served where liquor is to kind of prevent people from getting drunk to quick. So long as you can get good prizes which people or businesses might give cause businesses can write it off. Prizes can range from liquor, tv, video games, tools, makeup, spa day pass, mani/pedi or w.e you think people would be willing to spend more to win and your prizes should reflect the number of people you expect. There are rare cases of people losing money on socials, but they are often idiots. Most I've heard earned off a social was 12 grand and average I hear is 2 grand