Non alcoholic wedding

taram · 12-07-2008 01:28AM #1

A Muslim friend of mine has left it to me to organise her wedding food and drinks. Food was easy, but drinks are tough! No alcohol will be served until after 11pm, so racking my brains trying to think of something fancy and nice to serve til then.

To top it off, we also need a fancy diabetic drink too. Any suggestions? How should we serve it? Just paranoid a otherwise fancy enough wedding will end up with little plastic cups of coke like at a kid's birthday :eek:

sickpuppy32 · 12-07-2008 01:34AM

non alcoholic cocktails go down a treat, you can think of funny names for them and supply a menu as well

kizzyr · 12-07-2008 09:29AM

sickpuppy32 wrote: »

non alcoholic cocktails go down a treat, you can think of funny names for them and supply a menu as well

+1 also for diabetics they can drink the diet versions of most drinks like Coke, 7 Up etc and you can still make the Virgin Screw Driver, Virgin Mary (as in Bloody Mary), Long Island Ice T (granted without the alcohol) and so on.
Can I ask why do these only need to be served until 11pm?

iguana · 12-07-2008 11:42AM

I'd recommend something like Amé served in wine glasses. It's an adult soft drink, and a good alternative to wine. You can get it in about 4 different flavours and most supermarkets and good off-licenses stock it.

Ime it's regularly on two-for-one offers in supermarkets. Or perhaps if you were ordering a lot of it you could work out a bulk discount. I'm not sure if it's diabetic though. But you can buy both white and red grape juice in Aldi, which also works well as a wine alternative.

Amé ; http://www.richmondmarketing.com/soft_drinks.htm

taram · 12-07-2008 04:04PM

Sickpuppy: great plan with the menus, will try that.

Kizzyr: we've got bulk bought fizzy drinks in various flavours and diet/zero versions, but just wanted something a bit more special. After 11pm we're going into the main part of the hotel which is a standard bar/club/dancefloor open to the public and her family are all going home then so drinkies it will be.

Iguana: Ohhh perfect, thanks! Just the kind of thing I was looking for.

CathyMoran · 13-07-2008 11:35AM

As a type 1 diabetic I am just pleased when someone has been kind enough to get diet drinks for me though I always like to see the bottle as I have been accidentally served the non-diet kind before with dramatic results. Some diet drinks do contain carbohydrate though so be careful (read the labels first).

MJOR · 14-07-2008 02:41PM

The likes of Lidl and aldi have some cool juices too unusual like grape and mangoe.... they should go down a treat with a drop of grenadine in them.

Diet ones are great for Diabetics.

kizzyr · 14-07-2008 05:27PM

Superquinn have some great lemonades too, and some of them are for people with diabetes.

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