Table Drinks

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Hi. Looking for any advice about drinks for our summer wedding. We have around 100 guests at the day (very few non-drinkers) and need to provide welcome and table drinks. It’s fairly DIY so we need to sort ice, chillers, glasses etc. Our caterers can serve welcome drinks but not table drinks but we are hoping guests won’t mind serving their own if we leave drinks buckets at each table?

We are currently allocating for:

2 glasses Prosecco on arrival
1/2 bottle wine per person with meal

And will provide water and soft drinks (unsure what, how much?). Should we be adding beers too? I don’t drink beer so have no idea how much is needed!

We think the weather will likely be hot. There are traditional canapés and then the food is a hog roast and salads if that helps. The venue is a fairly simple barn venue with no taps so we need to have all the water in that guests dancing on a hot day might need! Event will be around 8 hours but a bar will be available for the evening.

Any advice re drink quantity, type (aiming not to break the bank!) and DIY service would be much appreciated. Particularly interested in experience of Majestic (and on any tips to keep price down!)

Thanks I’m advance

We prioritised food and drink at our wedding so estimated 1.5 bottles per guest (70% white, 30% red) and had beer too.

Majestic allow you to return a 1/4 of an order I think which is why we went bigger than needed because my worst fear was running out!

Soft drinks we had still and sparkling water, diet coke and lemonade, ginger beer, elderflower and non-alcoholic gin.

Order more - return any unused

If you run out then that’s the sort of thing guests remember & talk about

@tintodeverano2

If there's no running water, how will people go to the loo and wash their hands?

Sorry should clarify - there are bathrooms with running water, just no drinking water!

I can dig out our spreadsheet but I remember the advice online was ½ bottle per person - ours was quite boozy and it actually worked out at about 2 bottles per person 🤭

Order plenty of soft drinks. Half of each couple that comes are likely to be driving home.

For a hot day I’d allow 2 litres of water per person.