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We are serving kegs! Budlight and another one.... I don't remember. My parents are buying all the wine since neither of us are that into it, so I have no idea on that part! And the bar is a full bar, so every liquor you can think of! Oh, we are also having a margartia machine :) yummy!!!!
I like Heineken. :)
For wine, we have to look into the details, but we'd really like to get local reds and whites from Whole Foods. That's the wine we drink most often, and it's really good for its price. Not sure about what kind of champagne we'll get yet.
Same with beer, we'd like to go local. I think it'll make for a fun talking point and Chicago knows its beer.
Besides that, we'll be going for signature drink ingredients from Binny's. It really depends on how much money we have to play around with. I'd love to do a few nicer quality hard liquors like Grey Goose and Patron, but the money might not be there.
For beer, we had 3 kegs, 2 from the local Palisade Brewery and 1 Coors Light. For wine we had Rene Barbier's white, a local Chardonnay (which frankly wasn't all that great) and Frontera's Carmenere for the red. The brewery also makes some sodas so we also had their rootbeer, gingerbeer and blackberry soda. Oh! And some local vodka to make Moscow Mules (ginger beer, vodka and lime.)
We will have bud light, budweiser and maybe corona. Wine, I am not sure, we will probaby go local. My FMIL is in charge of wine and she LOVES a lot of our local wineries. Bourbon is a big deal in my area. I live literally live in the "Bourbon Capital of the World". We make Makers Mark, Jim Beam, Evan Williams and almost any other bourbon that you can think of in my area, so there will be a huge asssortment of bourbon.
We're doing Coors Light, Yuengling and Budweiser. For wine, we're going with a merlot and pinot grigio. Hard liquor is the typical stuff. We're also doing a signature blue martini :)
We needed a venue that would let us bring in our own beer and wine because we're known for our taste in both.
Beer - 2 kegs, one of a Belgian beer called Delirium Tremens (still searching for a source) and one of something else more readily available, like Fat Tire or Corona or Heineken.
White Wine
Edna Valley 2005 Chardonnay, Acacia 2006 Chardonnay
Red Wine
Chalone 2004 Pinot Noir, Sagelands Merlot, Clos de Lac Zinfandel, Solis Pinot Noir, Zonin Lambrusco (for rehearsal dinner)
Sparkling Wine
Jacob's Creek Chardonnay & Pinot Noir Sparkling, and a Spanish cava
We are having Blue, Blue Light, Honeymoon (Summer ale of Blue Moon, get it?!) and Bud Light Lime for beers.
As for wines, we are still looking around for wines under $6 for our venue to get or we can go with what they have.
We are still trying to figure out how to do a signautre cocktail.
my family drinks Coors and most everyone else drinks Budlight..so that's what we're doing along with a red & white wine and some hard liquor...
Our venue doesn't allow liquer so we are doing Coors Light and Corona, and for wine we will have a caberney sauvignon and a local reisling. :)
We're going with beers from the local microbrewery (Mad Anthony) and the venue's red and white house wines.
I would love love love to serve all local wine and beer but we have yet to find a reception venue that would allow for that within our budget. But I dream of a variety of New York born, really awesome tasting wine and beer!
I'm not sure yet. The boy's brother is a wine and liquor rep, so we'll probably get him to help us out with the wine selection.
As far as beer goes, we both prefer microbrews, but that can get pricey. We'll probably get a case or two of local beers, though, and then get some crowd-pleasers (i.e. Yuengling Lager, Corona, Amstel Light).
We are doing kegs of Miller Lite and I think Budweiser. Wine will probably just be Chardonnay and Merlot. We are also serving vodka, gin, whiskey, rum, etc...
For red we are having pinot noir and a cab. For the white we are having chardonnay. We are undecided about beer, but probably a lighter, popular option such as Corona and a darker beer like New Castle.
We will also have a full bar and champagne.
SO jealous of you girls who can bring in your own liquor/beer/wine! That was a high requirement for us in the beginning but after 9 months of venue searching we took the first venue we loved regardless of that! :(
LOVE New Castle, Magic Hat No.9, tons of the local wineries around us that you can't even purchase in the stores.
If we were closer to Upstate for the wedding I think we would def serve Blue!! But down in NYC it'll probably cost an arm and a leg for the caterer to get!
We stuck with the major players for the attendees, but I bought my hubby a mixed case from Victory Brewing that we hid behind the bar :) Most of our guests thought it was cute that we were sharing our favorite beers, and they were all more than happy with Heini, Yuengling, and the traditionals.
We are having a destination wedding of sorts in Door County, WI. Therefore, we are serving mostly wine as the alcohol at our wedding - all of our wine will be all local fruity wines made in Door County with all local fruits. If we do beer (not decided yet), we'll probably do Wisconsin beers like Liney's berrywies. And for liquor we'll be doing probably two or three signature autumn cocktails - pumpkin pie martini, rum and apple cider "punch"...stuff like that :-)
We're doing local beer and wine. So that's Upland beer and Oliver wine. I'm pretty excited about that part!
@pvaulter718,
That's a great idea! Our caterer is letting us a bring in a bottle of my fav champagne (Banfi Rosa Regale Brachetto) for the bridal room. I think she'll be ok with putting a 12PK of FI's microbrew in his room/bar. I'll def ask! Thanks!!
There will be a bunch of different random kinds... I know for sure there will be Bud seeing as though FI and his dad both only drink that. The wine is actually a house wine that the venue makes. We sampled it and it was delicious! They have an Italian restaurant right behind the reception hall and I have heard a lot of good things about the wine from people who have been to the restaurant.
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ala Corgi's thread.
What beer and wine are YOU serving at your reception?
FI and I are huge microbrew fans but he fears that not a lot of people would like it. And the ones we like are more $$$. So we're going with Heineken (it'll appease my side of the family. Chinese people have a thing about Tsingtao and Heineken??) and Corona with lime. Because who doesn't love a Corona with lime in the summer???
For wine: Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Merlot, White Zinfandel which is just what comes with the catering package.
And the usual assorted hard liquors. Most importantly is making sure there's Jacks and Southern Comfort. :)
None of the wines are any of our faves but I think there's enough variety for people and we probably won't be drinking much the day of so no matter to us.