Drinks Advice

FuturemrsH

I really want to stick to my budget, which after calculating tonight has already reached £6K when i was hoping to bring it in under 5k. So anyway im trying to make some cuts.
I was wanting to offer 3 drinks, bucks fizz on arrival, one glass wine with meal and cava for toast.Im paying corkage on each bottle
its for 85 people im thinking:
24 bottles wine
18 Cava
18 Bucks
what do you think i can cut? any advise greatly welcomed.

PootleFlump_3

How much are you paying per bottle of each? Just wondering if you could perhaps get rid of the Cava and have them toast with wine or whatever they drinking at the time.

Tiara_2

Sounds daft but are any of the 85 guests children? If so then you could cut the budget by giving them squash.
Also will there by any adults not drinking- perhaps because they are driving? Again you could look into cheaper non-alcoholic options for them

FuturemrsH

to be honest venue is charging £2 a glass for soft drinks so were gonna just let parents buy their kids drinks. there will only be 6 of them. i guess i could cut one of the drinks out

TC1978

For our 80 guests we were advised 64 bottles in total- 16 for reception fizz (whatever we decide), 16 prosecco for toast and 32 to accompany the main meal with combination of red, white and rose. We got a bulk deal on corkage and have spent many hours taste testing (hard job but someone's gotta do it!). With sparkling rose at £22.50 per bottle, wine at a minimum of £16 and sparkling white £19, we've calculated a saving of about £400- 500 by doing it our way!

Sammy85_2

We are providing for 70 guests.

2 welcome drinks per person - cava for ladies. pints for gents
1/2 bottle of wine pp (2ish large glasses each)
1 glass cava for toasting

we were advised on the cava that you get 6 glasses per bottle.
I would imagine would would get 4 glasses of wine from a bottle.

I think your bottle estimates arent too far out, but you could cut a couple bottles here or there.

MrsDrink

May I borrow this thread to ask whether this sounds about right for a house party (our reception is going to be at our house).

We'll have around 45 drinking guests - I've tried to preempt the types of drinks they like: 5 cider drinkers, 15 beer drinkers and 25 wine drinkers. I've gone for:
Beer 90 bottles
Cider 30 Bottles
White Wine 15 bottles (11.25L)
Red Wine 10 bottles (7.5L)
Rose Wine 5 bottles (3.75L)
Taking 5 glasses (150ml) from each bottle of wine that gives me 270 servings (6 drinks each).
Does that sound reasonable? I plan on getting the alcohol as cheap as chips, so I don't want to end up paying extortionate spar prices cause we've run out. (Don't mind having left overs cause it'll always get drunk one way of the other).
This is also assuming that the alcoholic drinkers drink only alcohol all night and none of them are driving (which some will be).

donnap83

We're working it out as 1 glass of bucks fizz on arrival, a glass of champagne to toast and half a bottle of wine per adult guest at the sit down.

aarchk

My mum used to do wedding catering so she advised me when I bought the wine for my wedding. You can get at least 6 glasses from each bottle of fizz for the toast so for 100 drinking guests you only need 16/17 bottles.

for the welcome drinks you need less fizz as it is mixed with orange juice, however depending on how long the standing around chatting part is you need more than one drink. so assuming a mmaximum of two drink then you need 16 bottles again. Squash

I have substantailly over ordered the wine for my wedding as I got it dirt cheap through a wine wholesaler who sold it to me at cost (£2.10 for tabe wine & £4 for fizz per bottle he is a friend of my sisters). We are doing a free bar and whatever is left will do me for a while.

RainbowDrops

You can cut 1/2 bottles of fizz, but you can't cut the wine, as you already have less than half a bottle per person.

wiggychick

Only a small point, but Tesco Value orange juice (other brands available) tastes pretty good once it's chilled and mixed with the good stuff. Our venue didn't charge corkage for the OJ, it was an alternative for the non-drinkers and it was much cheaper to mix ourselves than use the ready mixed Buck's fizz!

Wiggy