Since I’m full of opinions today… vote in my poll?

Hmmm, I can’t do a blanket vote because it depends on the people I think 😊

I think that's a fun idea. Everyone can bring something they like and in turn every guest gets a huge variety of options to choose from. Plus, with the expense of meat these days having the host provide all of the meat for a BBQ might mean that BBQ doesn't happen because it would be unaffordable. This is just a potluck style BBQ. I'd definitely go.

I have no problem with this. Meat is expensive. If everyone brought a side dish for sharing that’s great too.

same.

I picked seems smart but I also think that it depends on reason for the BBQ and who you are inviting. A close group of friends who get together all the time…yup bring a dish to share and your own meats and specialty drinks. 

A BBQ to celebrate a birthday or something else, host provides meat.  

I don’t have an all or nothing answer as I think both situations are acceptable.  Know your crowd.

I voted cheapskate, but I’ll also add that it doesn’t count for close friends or family. Some peoples homes are the “go to” houses because they are better set up to host and they should not always have to provide the venue and the food.

This is exactly the reason for my vote.

Given that you said it's family and everyone will eat the meat they brought themselves, I'd definitely be in on it. The only potential issue I can foresee (given the situation) is different thicknesses of meat will take varying amounts of time on the grill so it may be tricky getting the timing right.

We've actually done this for a family gathering once or twice (we were not the hosts). One of them was for MIL's (birthday? Mother's Day? can't remember) so the host (my BIL & SIL) provided her steak.

I didn’t vote because I really don’t have a problem with it, especially if the host is inviting a lot of people where it would be hard to make everyone happy anyway.

Case in point, we once had a BBQ birthday party for DD where some people coming didn’t eat pork (so no bratwurst), some people won’t eat beef, other people would only eat a turkey burger and some people were vegetarian so they would only eat a veggie burger. Okay, seriously, I’m not going to try to accommodate all that. You bring what you want to eat and we’ll throw it on the grill and cook it. (ETA: We did offer brats and regular beef burgers but if they wanted something else they had to bring it themselves.)

We’ve hosted things like that and attended things like that without issue.

For your gathering, I tend to think cheap even though they are family. We have 2-3 regular family get togethers (varies from 10-16 people) and one BIL did this once. I was fine with it, since I'm a fussy meat eater anyway, but we just brought brats and buns for us and our kids. BIL that was hosting cooked massive steaks for his family and got teased that was why we had to bring our own. I'm pretty sure I eye rolled but honestly don't care since I would have declined one or shared a small portion with someone in my family (which is what I do with a small steak at home most of the time anyway).

As host, I wouldn't want to cook the variety of meat to everyone's liking and wouldn't even consider this. Almost always we ask or are asked to bring a side or 2. Ironically, same BIL is the one that always seems to bring a bag of buns or a bag of chips, while I'm bringing a huge ass fruit salad and a nice (usually homemade) dessert. Now I just sound like I'm keeping score

With the current cost of meat, bring your own is fine. As long as you eat what YOU brought!