How much wine is enough?

Vickysg24

Hi I was just wondering, How much wine would be enough for 100 guests. Our hotel are doing 2 glasses per guest. But not sure if i'll need to get more? I really don't have a clue when it comes to the drinks side of the reception so if anyone could give me a heads up it would be much appreciated.

Thanks a mill.

Park Royal

Not sure about this , but if the wine glasses are not too big, I would have

thought two glasses , very acceptable. Many guests will probably not want

wine, others would drink the place dry of wine , real pigs,

most Hotels etc would have a very good idea of what goes......

Also depends on your budget and if you want to just keep the wine going

no matter what.....

but two glasses should be more than enough for most wine taking guests...

and they should be delighted to be offered two glasses....IMHO

seamus

Half bottle or two glasses per person is the usual amount amount quoted. At a wedding most wine drinkers will probably drink 4 glasses/a bottle of wine, but when you take into account that not everyone will drink wine, it works out to about half a bottle per head.

This is also usually considered on the basis of one glass of wine with dinner, and one glass of wine to toast with the speeches.

rashers10

Vickysg24 wrote: »

Hi I was just wondering, How much wine would be enough for 100 guests. Our hotel are doing 2 glasses per guest. But not sure if i'll need to get more? I really don't have a clue when it comes to the drinks side of the reception so if anyone could give me a heads up it would be much appreciated.

Thanks a mill.

I'd say that would be fine although what happens with the people that don't have wine, does their surplus go over to the other guests? Do you get charged per head regardless?
It's much easier if the cost is done per bottle. You can factor this in much easier.
We brought our own and had 60 bottles for 100 people and it was WAY too much. We were drinking bottles of leftover wine for weeks!

Vickysg24

That's perfect... thanks for all your help. This clears alot with me. I have been to the hotel before and the glass of wine we were given was huge so I'd say it's half a bottle of wine per guest. Which I think would be enough. The only thing is If people don't actually like/drink wine, do we have to have other drinks at the table or will they just buy their own from the bar?

rashers10

Vickysg24 wrote: »

That's perfect... thanks for all your help. This clears alot with me. I have been to the hotel before and the glass of wine we were given was huge so I'd say it's half a bottle of wine per guest. Which I think would be enough. The only thing is If people don't actually like/drink wine, do we have to have other drinks at the table or will they just buy their own from the bar?

Really depends on what you want/can afford. Some couples would buy a round of drinks for the guests as the toast, but typically this wouldn't be done if you were supplying glasses of wine.
And even more so if you have champagne for the arriving guests!
so if you've gone wine and/or champagne, don't worry about any other drinks. That's my advice anyway.. :cool:

clint_silver

If the hotel is providing the wine, they should only charge you for opened bottles.

did for us anyway.

quick phonecall to hotel should confirm. they'll know it will be an average of so many red or white per head, they might go a couple of bottles over on each side as they open per table. but can live with that. I cant remember the count but we had to pay for the total bottles that might have been opened and they gave us back the money on the bottles they hadnt opened.

In fact, I remember thinking to myself, they never even said they were gong to do that, so we had a nice surprise on checkout.

ABajaninCork

rashers10 wrote: »

Really depends on what you want/can afford. Some couples would buy a round of drinks for the guests as the toast, but typically this wouldn't be done if you were supplying glasses of wine.
And even more so if you have champagne for the arriving guests!
so if you've gone wine and/or champagne, don't worry about any other drinks. That's my advice anyway.. :cool:

Sorry, but I've never been to a wedding where only wine was served and nothing more for the Toast. But I don't doubt that is some people's preference. We served wine with the meal (100 guests, think it was 20 of each) and did a round of drinks for the toast. Frankly, it was cheaper than champagne/sparkling wine.

rashers10

ABajaninCork wrote: »

Sorry, but I've never been to a wedding where only wine was served and nothing more for the Toast. But I don't doubt that is some people's preference. We served wine with the meal (100 guests, think it was 20 of each) and did a round of drinks for the toast. Frankly, it was cheaper than champagne/sparkling wine.

Depends how much wine I guess;)
A lot weddings I've been at have had champagne too but I don't remember the round of drinks happening much.
It seems messy and cumbersome.
No one will tut tut regardless. If there is enough wine to go around no one will moan. Especially in these more cost conscious times!

kkcatlou

Digging up an old post here, wondering how much wine people think we should get for our wedding?!

Corkage is free which is brilliant, so we can bring in as much as we want.

The norm in hotel packages seems to be a half bottle per person, but at my sister's wedding last year, lots of people gave out (she never found out) that the wine was scarce. We challenged the hotel on it, and they swore they gave out all bottles (not sure I believe them), so as a result of this, we were thinking of going with 3/4s bottle per person. Does this seem excessive? We are having a day 2, so if there is some leftover, I'm sure it'll be drank then anyway!

We plan to give a glass of champagne for the toast also.

Also, any advice on where to get decent wine at a reasonable price? We've budgeted €8 a bottle - does this seem ambitious for good wine?

flikflak

€8 wont get you much in the way of decent wine I would have thought. What wine do you like? Something mass produced like this for example http://tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254192146 is on special at Tesco from tomorrow down from 13.00 to 7.50. Its middle of the road drinkable stuff perfectly acceptable for a wedding I would have thought.

You will have to keep an eye on special offers like this to get something drinkable for your budget. How much to get? If you have a two day event then buy one bottle per adult. Also if its a wine you enjoy drinking then you can take any left overs home.

I cant stand this one/two glass per person thing. Ours will be unlimited and already included in the price which is one of the benefits of going abroad.

We went to France for the wine. Worked out when you included all travel costs to be less than €6 a bottle (€4 a bottle was what we paid). We bought 84 bottles of each for 145 guests (had a second day as well). Came back with no red but about 30 bottles of white.

For prosecco we just ordered from O'Briens when they did their deals, got nice stuff for maybe €8 a bottle.

kkcatlou

Dónal wrote: »

We went to France for the wine. Worked out when you included all travel costs to be less than €6 a bottle (€4 a bottle was what we paid). We bought 84 bottles of each for 145 guests (had a second day as well). Came back with no red but about 30 bottles of white.

For prosecco we just ordered from O'Briens when they did their deals, got nice stuff for maybe €8 a bottle.

Thanks a million for that! We had thought about going to France, but thought with the time and effort we'd put into research and travel, that it might not be worth it, but it sounds like it was for you. Did you have a take days off work to get the ferry over? And how did you research it?

We have a few contacts who might be able to get us wine at wholesale price, but from what I've heard, that is not much cheaper than you get in the shops.

Also, just wondering what is the normal red/ white split? We've heard 60/40 in favour of red, but just wondering is that the norm?

We're hoping to get the Lidl champagne, as it's beat Moet in all taste tests, and is delicious, but they don't get it in that often, so could be tough. Otherwise, the O'Briens prosecco above sounds good, and great value.

kkcatlou

kkcatlou wrote: »

Thanks a million for that! We had thought about going to France, but thought with the time and effort we'd put into research and travel, that it might not be worth it, but it sounds like it was for you. Did you have a take days off work to get the ferry over? And how did you research it?

We took a week off nearly a year ago and went over for a week. We went to a normandy wine place and bought several bottles of various types with the plan to try lots and pick them up on the way back. My wife's parents have a mobile home near Onzain in the Loire Valley so the plan was to have a holiday as well as get the wine.

As luck would have it, we picked up a bottle of Touraine Sauvignon in Normandy which we loved. We bought a local bottle of it in Onzain, and then visited the vineyard of it (here if you are interested: http://domainederabelais.free.fr/). The red (Gamay) they have is beautiful, while the white is great (I'm normally a white drinker but the red is just so delicious!). There wasn't enough white labelled for us to pick up so the owner got them ready while we waited:




Our friend is a sommelier and advised us the following: Don't buy wine just because you feel you have to as you're in France. There's nothing worse than manky wine at a wedding. You could end up getting a good deal in France, but perhaps give yourself a few days so you don't panic buy. Treat it as a holiday first and foremost.

But on the plus side, if you find yourself a good deal like the above, you'll end up giving the in-laws orders for several crates of wine whenever they are driving over :pac:

As for the split of red/white, we just went 50/50. Depends on your menu too.

Moonbeam

2 glasses is more then enough and not everyone drinks wine so there is usually a bit more for those that do.

lazygal

Moonbeam wrote: »

2 glasses is more then enough and not everyone drinks wine so there is usually a bit more for those that do.

Not at our wedding! We went through a lot of bubbly and at least half if not more than half a bottle per person. We had a free pour. I think two glasses is a bit scabby, I've been at weddings with skimpy wine and it does not leave a good impression. Lets put it this way, I wouldn't limit people to two glasses if we were having a dinner party or drinks in the house.

harry Bailey esq

i wouldn't normally post in this forum but this caught my eye.My da was a contract caterer for many years and he always swore by the ratio of six bottles per ten guests,sometimes it would be bang on the button and sometimes a little surplus but never left short. a lot of places buy back the wine that's not opened too.

Gatica

We bought our wine at Cases in Galway. We got 64 bottles of prosecco and 64 bottles of wine, split 50/50, for 1285 Euro. It was around 11 Euro for prosecco and around 8 Euro per wine bottle.
We had 106 guests and we ended up returning 250 Euro worth of wine (can't remember number of bottles exactly), but this was after we kept 3 bottles for ourselves, gave 3 bottles per parents and there were 3 bottles of whites that the staff had cracked the screw top, so were not refundable. There was more than enough wine for our guests with what we got and it was nice to get a little cash back after the honeymoon.

homemadecider

I was at a wedding last year where we were poured 2 very small glasses of wine each. We drank them with dinner and then realised we had nothing left to drink during the speeches (there was no toast drink provided). It ended up being bad for the bride and groom because (a) loads of people were at the bar when the speeches were starting and (b) everyone remembers how scabby the wine was. In fact it's one of the things I remember very well when I think about that wedding!

stargazer 68

lazygal wrote: »

I think two glasses is a bit scabby, I've been at weddings with skimpy wine and it does not leave a good impression. .

homemadecider wrote: »

It ended up being bad for the bride and groom because (a) loads of people were at the bar when the speeches were starting and (b) everyone remembers how scabby the wine was. In fact it's one of the things I remember very well when I think about that wedding!

These!! Im probably going to be shot down for this but hey ho! I'm helping my sister plan her wedding and we decided to put any extra cash into upgrading the food and plenty of wine as well as an open toast. This is the type of thing people remember after the wedding.

No one talks about the pretty little bags of almonds or monogramed matchbooks after the wedding but they will talk about how dreadful the food was or 'scabby' the drinks were!

pwurple

Tesco often do an offer for 25% off wine when you buy six bottles or more. That's where some of my buddies got theirs. Keep an eye out. November was the last one. There was one in june and march last year as well. Their normal offer is 5% off.

We got wine in france, but we go to france on hols anyway, rather than making a special trip.