@ibstubro Definitely, I think we can go with some stereotypes. Irish, German, LOL, drinkers. Most of my friends in MI are Polish, they seem to drink pretty well also, but I don’t have that stereotype for the Polish. Those named will go out to drink. While other groups who still do drink, do it with dinner, or for a celebration.
The old saying: Irish wedding they worry about the alcohol. Jewish wedding they worry about the food. You could switch Jewish for Italian or Greek. While my experience is at the Baptist wedding, or any wedding where there are a lot of Evangelicals in the community, neither drink
nor food is blown out of the park, even when they have the money.
The Mid South was the first place that I lived that it was usual for wedding receptions to be just heavy appetizers. Luckily, the first one I went to a Jewish woman from my husband’s work, who was from the northeast, clued me in, or I would have missed eating enough to fill up. This wedding happened to be Catholic, but it still fit in with my Bible Belt experience regarding food. They did have an emphasis on the alcohol, having a long cocktail hour with zero food. I’ve never seen that before at a wedding. Drinking and no food, but they were Catholics from Louisiana.