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I would highly recommend a signature drink or two. It's a lot easier than an open bar.
I had sig drinks and they were a huge hit. Every single person was drinking one. I had a full open bar too, but my sig drinks were really good!
We're doing a brunch so it's champagne and mimosas only, although the bar at the venue (right outside our room) will be open if anyone wants a bloody mary or a beer.
We are just doing beer/wine, and the venue has bartenders that will serve for us. We will try to buy enough to cover the whole night--but if we run out, we run out! We'll also have non-alcoholic options, since FI and are non-drinkers. Should be fun!
If I paid to go away to a "destination" wedding, I would like to have a few drinks. I think there needs to be a full bar, not saying you have to pay for it but it should be avalible. And its not really your choice to "cut people off" Just because you dont drink much dosent mean that the people attending the wedding wont assume its a night out and like to have a few drinks.
Almost forgot. We are having a open bar for coctail hour, then there will be a full cash bar the entire night. I will also have a signiture drink which will be paid for all night, champange for the toast and wine served with dinner.
We had water, pop, 2 kinds of wine, champagne, and 3 kinds of beer. The place we had our wedding at let us bring in our own which was really nice. We had an open bar all night and the only thing we ran out of was 1 kind of beer.
OK well this is what we're doing:
After the ceremony, we're having a drinks reception, and are serving 2 glasses of buck's fizz pp. Then during the meal we're providing water, soft drinks for those who don't drink, and 1/2 bottle of wine and a glass of champagne for the toast for those who do drink. We are then putting £1500 (around $2300) behind the bar for the evening reception; this can only be spent on beers, house wines, single spirits, and soft drinks; if guests want cocktails, champagne, etc, they will need to pay (coktails run at $18 so our tab would quickly run out if we included them).
I really think it depends on your budget and your guests. Us Brits like to drink, and a wedding with no alcohol, or limited alcohol, just wouldn't really be an option for us. Whereas if most of your guests really drink, you could just serve soft drinks. Another option would be to give guests 'tokens' for drinks, which would allow them x number of certain drinks. Also, if you can't stretch to providing alcohol, you do need to still provide a bar so that people have the option of paying for drinks if they want to.
We paid for all non-alcoholic drinks. There was a bar in the restaurant--if guests wanted booze, they had to buy it themselves. No one complained. (We knew that if we offered open bar, my mother would get TRASHED, and she's enough of a pain to deal with when she's sober...)
We're having an open bar all night. Our venue has a bar in it, so we'll tell guests to order whatever they want.
We are having a small 30-40 person wedding and have an open bar, but I'm not sure how it's going to work. Either we set the bar downstairs for the cocktail hour, or we set it up upstairs so it's close by for the rest of the night (the venue has 2 floors with the top floor being the dining hall/dance area.)
I'm thinking we'll have it upstairs and see if they can't serve drinks at the cocktail hour on trays. It's not very clear to me yet. :P
I would say beer only and sparkling wine toast should be fine! I suppose it depends on your guests. Some might want wine with their meal.
We are doing water, soda, juice etc in metal troughs and then bottled beers in another trough (then switching to keg beer once that is out to save $).
We are also serving some wine and having a few signature drinks (we're thinking: raspberry mojito, white wine berry sangria, spiked sweet tea with lemon, some kind of margarita on the rocks)... But we might also buy a couple different types of liquor and having them out as well. And everything will be serve yourself since we will be on family owned property.
ETA: The alternate liquors would probably be some kind of whiskey, regular vodka, some kind of rum and Tuaca... incase anyone didn't like the signature drinks so they could mix those with the sodas/juice. And we will probably have 3 kinds of beer.
There will be champagne straight after our ceremony, while photos are being taken there will be mimosas and strawberries. on the tables during the meal there will be red and white wine on the tables. there will be champagne for the toast.
then there will be a cash bar for the rest of the evening/
the venue provides unlimited water and soft drinks, then we're doing an open bar of beer and wine, we'll have a bartender serving it at the bar area because the venue doesn't have a liquour license so we need a licensed person to serve the alcohol
We are hosting beer, wine, and a signature cocktail that will be the color of one of our wedding colors. Unless your venue provides alchohol in their package, people tend to drink more when they aren't spending the cash (speaking from experience).
We are doing beer and wine. Everyone keeps telling me not to do a full open bar because people end up getting too sh*tfaced. And I can think of a lot of people who would. Hahaha.
@ella86: lol same reason we're doing beer and wine.. we want our wedding to be fun but we don't want people taking shots and acting too wil
We had a vodka spiked lemonade, a keg of beer , ice tea, water, and canned soda.
It was all self-serve.
We are having a brunch reception, so we are doing an unlimited amount of bloody marys and champagne cocktails. There will also be an espresso bar pre-ceremony and during cocktail hour and unlimited coffee/tea/juice during the meal.
We are having a 6 hour beverage package with all soft drinks/waters, a sparkling wine, 5-6 types of wine; and 4 different beers. All of which are unlimited for the 6 hours. And is included in our $114 per head price for a four course meal and drinks :)
Open bar all night... we want our friends to have a gooood time ;) Though we got an extra hour added on to the reception for moving our time an hour earlier, so we might tack on cash bar paid by us at the end since I imagine most people will have left by then. We plan on doing signature cocktails too and wine service during dinner.
Our bar will be open with beer, wine, and champagne. We're getting married at a vineyard. I hope everyone will be interested in wine. :)
we are doing mostly wine and some champagne. since it's a destination wedding in wine country we are asking guests to bring a bottle of wine instead of a gift. we will enjoy what everyone brings and no one has to pack gifts to bring and we don't have to try to ship anything home, plus it helps with the beverage budget.
@suhseal: Please consider offering wine as well, even if it's only a few bottles. You know your crowd the best, but I only drink wine, so I wouldn't be able to have a drink the way you have listed your choices.
We're having non-alcoholic beverages as well as an open beer and wine bar. Would love to do signature drinks but it will depend on the budget :/
We are having a dry reception because we have angry and stupid alcoholics in both of our families. Angry and stupid usually ends in a fight. My cousin Dawn had an open bar and her husbands mom ended up getting arrested and that pretty but made up my mind.
We had a full open bar: soft drinks; a bunch of different beers, wines, and mid-shelf liquors; and a champagne fountain. Our venue was a great deal though... 6 hours of open bar for less than $10/person.
We're having a full open premium bar (premium liquor, beer, wine, etc) during cocktail hour and during the reception. My family doesn't really drink, but my FH's family does and so do most of our friends.
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FI and I are coming to a point where we need to consider our drink options and I was wondering what other Bees are doing out there.
We'll be having a small (~30 people) destination wedding. The ceremony and reception will be at the same place. We plan on having a "mingling hour" between the ceremony and reception so we could go off and take pictures with the photographer, and then come back for a sit-down dinner.
It will be hard and expensive as it is to get alcohol due to the country's high import tax. I hardly drink at all, and FI drinks occasionally, so we were considering only doing beers and sparkling wine for toasting.
I'm also unsure of how much to order, and when/if I should "cut people off." Would love to get a sense of what others are doing.