One other thing that you might want to look into, if your reception isn't at a hotel--
Some hotels have agreements with local reception halls where you can get a hotel van to do one hour of drop-off service at the beginning of the reception, and one hour of pick-up service at the end of the reception.
We had a lot of out-of-town guests who were younger and were sharing cars and didn't know the area well. So it was really nice for them to be able to have something to drink (most of them didn't get blasted, but they definitely had alcohol), and didn't have to worry about being too drunk or too lost to find their way back to the hotel, or trying to drive in 3" heels.
All of the guests who were ~22-26 who took advantage of the van really were appreciative of it. You may have some who would take advantage of the van service and would get totally blasted if you had an open bar all night, but if you have just wine with dinner or a wine/beer/champagne bar you can limit the extent to which they get plastered.
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