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Wedding Wine

  • 12-09-2005 12:03pm
    #1
    joxers25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭


    I need to buy 50 bottles of wine for a wedding. Ham and Turkey for dinner.

    Wheres the best place for this price wise? - spending €5-10

    Any suggestions for the wine would be appreciated


Comments

  • #2
    The Sweeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Beware corkage fees.

    Depending where you're having your wedding reception dinner, many places reserve the right to charge you corkage on alcohol you supply yourself. It compensates them for not having sold it to you. Make sure you don't budget €10 a bottle for buying your own, then have to pay the hotel/restaurant €5 per bottle to open it (€250 is a lot of money for using a corkscrew).

    Depending whether the venue charges corkage, you may find you're better off buying their house wine direct.


  • #3
    miss serena
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭miss serena


    You should maybe try and include it in the deal of renting the venue that no corkage would be applied.

    Get advise from a good off licence for the wine and try and negotiate with them for buying in bulk. They might have one off deals going on.


  • #4
    OldSoak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭OldSoak


    If you can avoid corkage, then you are probably best off buying wine online - you can get exceptionally good deals from some of the online wine shops. Other than that, it really depends on where you are. In the UK, Majestic and Oddbins are good places to go for wedding wine as they will not only give you sound advice on what to get, but they will provide glasses free of charge and will also refund you for any unopened bottles (is there such a thing after a wedding???).


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