Open Question: Alcohol

Open Question: Alcohol

October 25th, 2006 @ 12:30 pm by Open Question
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I am having an outdoor reception to celebrate our wedding (which took place this past summer). My question is this - how do I figure out how much beer, wine, soft drinks, etc. I need to buy for 70 guests?

Thanks for your help!

Michelle

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8 Responses to “Open Question: Alcohol”

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Miss Bluebell

Evite has a fun calculator for this!

http://www.evite.com/pages/party/drink-calculator.jsp

not sure how accurate it is, but hopefully will give you something to work with!

10/25/06 @ 12:39 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,235 posts, Sugar bee

Hi Michelle,

This is what we bought for our 100 person wedding.

http://www.weddingbee.com/2005/01/18/alcohol/

but most of it was left over because a friend donated 6 bottles of rum and we used that in our signature cocktails - thats what most people drank all night. (great way to save money on your bar tab)

this is a great beverage calculator from evite: http://www.evite.com/pages/party/drink-calculator.jsp

just put in your info and it’ll give you the numbers.

10/25/06 @ 12:41 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,235 posts, Sugar bee

lol miss bluebell you beat me to it.

10/25/06 @ 12:41 pm (reply)

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Miss Bluebell

haha, sorry Mrs. Bee!

10/25/06 @ 12:45 pm (reply)

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Michelle

Thanks ladies! The evite calculator was very helpful. It’s recommending 25 - 6 packs of beer (which I thought I would need more of) and 30 bottles of wine (which I thought I would need less of). I’ll probably buy more beer and stick with the recommended wine purchase. I am also making a signature drink - Hurricanes - to go with my Cajun themed reception. It’s this weekend so I’ll let you guys know how it goes!

10/25/06 @ 1:22 pm (reply)

Guest

i have yet to check out venue possibilites..so i have no idea how the bar tab is calculated at a reception..do they calculate how much alcohol was used? is it the method of calculating for an open bar and a restricted bar(beer/wine/sig drink)? thaknks for your help!
(should i post this in the beehive mrs bee?)

10/26/06 @ 12:30 am (reply)

Guest

At our wedding, we just used the unlimited drink package that the hotel offered (Soft Drink, Beer, Fresh Orange Juice, Water, etc). Wine was a bit expensive, and knowing our guests are not big drinkers, we thought it wasn’t worth for us to pay for the wine package as well. So I looked for wine companies that did “Sale & Return”, I bought 14 cases of Red & White Wine (Red is always more popular), but guaranteed 7 cases. So if I had left over, they would buy it back from me. At the end of the day, I had around 4-5 cases left over, the vendor picked it up the next day, and sent me a cheque within a week!

10/26/06 @ 1:14 am (reply)

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Tom

I help run a wedding event venue that has an alcohol license. We are not legally allowed to allow outside alcohol into the building. If we do, we can loose our license. I am not sure if this is a specific Alabama law, but check with your venue.

11/14/10 @ 8:18 pm (reply)