If you plan on drinking Monday at GW’s Inaugural Ball, you might want to start saving now.

One ticket for an alcoholic drink will cost $9, which you can pay with cash or credit card, University spokeswoman Michelle Sherrard said. Servers will be checking IDs, she added.

Light hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks will be served, too, but those will be free.

If you want to check your coat after getting to the Omni Shoreham Hotel, near the National Zoo, it’ll cost $5.

The event, which starts at 8 p.m. Monday, attracted a sellout crowd within 24 hours when the $100 tickets went on sale in November. The University expects to recoup about two-thirds of the $600,000 it poured into this year’s ball.

It will be the sixth-ever ball, and the largest in the University’s history.