to ask if you would choose sparkling wine or champagne?

[GinThief]

Need help deciding what drinks package to choose for our wedding guests.

Cast your vote for sparkling wine or champagne...

champagne will cost £13 per person more

Prosecco for me.

We had Cava. I much prefer it to Prosecco but would have Champagne every time if money was no option

Cava is made using the same process as champagne, it's the nearest alternative. In fact I've known people to have Cava and think they are drinking champagne.

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Fuzzy wine and tell mum it is champagne!

Why don't you have some champagne at a different time, like the night before the wedding, or in the morning (if you could cope with that) - there's no need to give everyone champagne when there's perfectly good prosecco around!

Cava is better than prosecco, prosecco is sickly.

Sparkling Chardonnay if you can stretch to it

I got a prosseco from lidl last week and it was gorgeous. As a pp said champagne is only champagne if it has come from that region. Just get some fizzy. Nobody will care.

Personally, I prefer cava, prosecco or even asti spumante to champagne. I find champagne too dry and yeasty.

Prosecco for me!

Couldn't care less, all fizz is good, free fizz is better.

Get what you like, its your party.

Well, if I had the choice I would always choose champagne but at a wedding I would provide prosecco/sparkling wine for cost. Loads of people don't even drink it so you probably end up wasting a lot anyway.

Sparkling, I dislike both so won't take more than a polite sip for the toasts, don't waste your money on me.

Sheesh! Save yourself the £13 per head and go for the sparkling wine. Champagne can taste like crap too so there's certainly no guarantee it will taste £13 nicer!

I don't mind prosecco at all but do prefer cava.

Nice sparkling wine is fine (although prosecco is often a bit sweet for me - I'd prefer cava).

Get your mum a bottle of champagne and everyone else can have the alternative sparkling wine. I went to a wedding with champagne that ran out. Much better to have enough sparkling wine.

It totally depends which champagne, which sparkling wine, and what your budget is.

My top choice would be Veuve Clicquot champagne - but that's not cheap.

We were lucky enough to try lots of different champagne and sparkling wines before our wedding. The two we liked best were the Louis Roederer champagne and a sparkling wine called pelorus vintage. I think you can get them both in majestic. We had some of both and everybody said they were really nice.

Liking the idea of getting my mum a bottle of champagne, hopefully that will keep her quiet.

Thank you all

What Grumpy said.

Can you try both to see what you like best?

Personally, I now always buy demi-sec champagne as I find the regular champagne too dry.

Go for the sparkling wine, I love a good cava/prosecco and a bottle of champagne is my pay day treat. However I have been at many weddings where I've been given the remainder of peoples toasts because a lot of people don't like fizzy wine wine of any type. It's wasted on most so keep it cheap.

I genuinely prefer Prosecco.

However, please be honest about what you're giving people. I hate it when people refer to any sparkling wine as 'champagne'.

Champagne is sparkling wine.

Sparkling wine.

Although I'm probably a philistine because I can't tell the difference between £8 Prosecco and £120 Dom Perignon (long story).