How much drink for a wedding

bobboberson

Hello

Looking for help on how much drink to buy for a wedding
The venue we are looking at doesn't have a licence, so we have to bring it alll.

There is about 75 peoplecoming of which
9 are kids
10 don't drink
25 are light drinkers
15 are medium drinkers
And the rest are hard drinkers.


I don't drink so I have no idea where to start.

Thanks for the help

Anthony

Melendez

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Melendez

Melendez wrote: »

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This is a terrible idea.

Not everyone drinks wine, in fact a lot don't.

You don't have to provide guinness, no, but a lager and spirits - gin/vodka/rum/whiskey would things that will get ordered and will be looked for by people attending a wedding. They don't have to be specific brands, but they should be available.

Even my 30th birthday party had all of the above and that was an evening in my garden.

I wouldn't know how much to tell you to supply, as I've never organised such an event, but I definitely would not just supply wine.

One friend who provided drink at their wedding, set up a web page where people RSVPd, and also gave an indication of what their most common drink of choice would be. It gave the couple something to work with.

mkdon05

16 hard drinkers @ 12 Cans
15 Medium drinkers @ 8 Cans
25 Light drinkers @ 4 Cans

That would be approx. 17 trays of beer. You could reduce that to maybe 14 trays and add a few bottles of vodka/gin and around 20 bottles of wine.

Its just a guestimate but you don't want to run out of drink when the party is in full flow.

bigpink

Ye providing the drink for the whole evening?

Tefral

Id go to Fine Wines Party store and rent a keg with some sort of Lager like Heineken or Carlsberg. Costs €220 for the hire of the equipment and the Keg.

Your definitely gonna need a bottle of Vodka, Bacardi and Gin id say and then a half bottle of wine per person.

Weddings are long days with plenty of food, the drinking capacity of your guests will be increased.

Atomic Pineapple

See if you can negotiate with an off licence to buy lots of drink up front but to be able to return it if its unused, I know a lot of wine suppliers will do this. If you could get somewhere that would let you do this you can order a lot and not worry about it being a waste as you can return what's not used.

bigpink

Kegs are can be messy and expensive.works just over 2 euro a pint and then the pulling of pints pint glasses etc

hardCopy

cronin_j wrote: »

Id go to Fine Wines Party store and rent a keg with some sort of Lager like Heineken or Carlsberg. Costs €220 for the hire of the equipment and the Keg.

Your definitely gonna need a bottle of Vodka, Bacardi and Gin id say and then a half bottle of wine per person.

Weddings are long days with plenty of food, the drinking capacity of your guests will be increased.

+Whiskey

Any leftovers can just stock your cabinet at home.

Tefral

bigpink wrote: »

Kegs are can be messy and expensive.works just over 2 euro a pint and then the pulling of pints pint glasses etc

Depends, I set one up at a party i threw and bought the red cups. For a wedding plenty of places hire the glasses and all the ancillary stuff.

Pints will slow people down drinking wine too and will stop people heading off to bed too early tired and emotional!

heroics

I'm sure someone in catering/bar role would have a better idea.

From my experience Not for a wedding but organised a couple of parties where we built a bar for between 30-150 guests.

The amount needed will depend on a number of things for example what time does the venue close.

Will the venue allow you to set up taps for Kegs? If so easiest way to buy the beer. we generally had an agreement that any unopened kegs could be returned. Also we found out through experience you are better having someone doing the bar than letting people serve themselves, keeps a bit of order to it and helps cut down on a load of waste.

We generally go with something like below

Guinness and 1 lager
Red/white wine. as its a wedding probably a bit of sparking wine as well.
Spirits were a bit of a mixed bag usually just vodka/gin/whiskey

DavyD_83

If the venue is used for weddings regularly, they would be well used to this and would most likely have a local suppler.
Have you asked the venue themselves for advice.

If you get a contact like this, they will also be able to advise on quantities, and would most likely be willing to take back unused bottles etc, or provide extra as needed during the night.
I'm sure any un-licensed venue would be well aware of the best options for booze supply that are available.

Our venue had no license, but the Pub/Off license in the town, sold us the kegs and provided a bar man to run an honesty bar (no selling of drink, just donations as you see fit, to help cover our costs). We picked up spirits ourselves in advance
We had Guinness and Lager on tap, Red, white and bubbles, and Vodka, Gin, Bacardi, Whiskey and mixers (Coke, 7up, orange, tonic water, fizzy water).
The gin was cleared out, left with a lot of Vodka (apparently not in fashion anymore )

Mrs OBumble

bobboberson wrote: »

There is about 75 peoplecoming of which
9 are kids
10 don't drink
25 are light drinkers
15 are medium drinkers
And the rest are hard drinkers.

75 - (9+10+25) = 35 "hard" drinkers. Whose quantities would be balanced out by 10+25 don't/light people.

So treat everyone as medium.

Personally for an event like this, I'd just provide wine and beer. Spirits OTT for the situation, and require too much messing with mixers and condiments, IMHO.

Milly33

Are ye buying all yer own drink then or getting someone in to do the bar?

We had the same for our own but then we had a bar man, who sorted it all for us.

More or less we made a list of what we knew people drank and what we would like in the bar, sent to him and then he advised. Not sure do i have a list of this or not cant remember..

I know what we got wine wise

willow tree

A friend had this and she sent a link of the off licence they used and said we could order anything we want from there and it would be at the reception when we arrived. We paid for ours and they paid for wine.. Everyone thought it was great and saved money.

Liam McPoyle

There are companies out there that offer a mobile bar service so that might be a better option rather than trying to figure out how much you need to buy yourself.

Of course it would come down to coatings but it wouldn't be any harm to contact some of them to compare.

Milly33

Make sure and ask too about returns, if you get onto maybe a local store supermarket they may offer returns so whatever is unused you can bring back and get your money back