No corkage charges venues

samv

Hi,

My friend would like to find a venue in London or the south east that charges no corkage fee's, does anyone know of anywhere?

Thanks
Sam

Idiophreak

Best bets are:
local halls / village halls
barns
marquee venues.

A note for your friend, though...do *all* the maths of the different options before heading down this route...I did a marquee wedding with avoiding corkage being one of the chief motivations...in the end, however, it would have worked out much cheaper to just pay for an open bar at a traditional venue...

Hollie84

I know all venues round here charge corkage, agree with the above poster.our venue charges £7 per one, for them to provide the wine its £15 a bottle, my OH is going to france so we was going to buy wine which would cost £2.99 a bottle but we would be grudge paying them £100 to open them so we have decided against wine on the tables

cord123

Maidens barn dont during the day but they are quite expensive. There is a barn southend way that you can just hire for really cheap (think its about £500) and then do everything yourself, I think its called red brick barn or something similar.... hth xxx

McKneff

Its not just a case of opening them, if you think about it.

They have to be put in the fridge, taken out of the fridge, opened,
provide glasses, put the glasses on the table, put the wine on the table, clear the bottles afterwards, remove the glasses and wash them, Its down to labour costs so not too bad at £100 to be honest.
You cant really expect it for nothing

Idiophreak

McKneff wrote: »

Its not just a case of opening them, if you think about it.

They have to be put in the fridge, taken out of the fridge, opened,
provide glasses, put the glasses on the table, put the wine on the table, clear the bottles afterwards, remove the glasses and wash them, Its down to labour costs so not too bad at £100 to be honest.
You cant really expect it for nothing

...but most places have fridges. They'll have staff around anyway, to serve the food etc, so it's not actually costing them any more in labour. The only real, additional costs are washing glasses and disposing of the bottles. They don't charge corkage on non-alcoholic drinks, so they obviously don't need to charge for washing glasses...So, they're really charging £100 to dispose of some wine bottles. Sounds like a lot to me.

Hollie84

Either way i refuse to pay it, we are dropping everything off the day before so apart from 6 bottles of white wine to go in the fridge the red doesnt need to.hardly going to take up lots of room.its a joke when u have spent alot of money on the venue then extra people u have paid for that werent included in the package.My guests will have to be happy with an arrival drink and a drink to toast,refuse to spend it when the wine has only cost us £2.99 a bottle.daylight robbery

Hollie84

McKneff wrote: »

Its not just a case of opening them, if you think about it.

They have to be put in the fridge, taken out of the fridge, opened,
provide glasses, put the glasses on the table, put the wine on the table, clear the bottles afterwards, remove the glasses and wash them, Its down to labour costs so not too bad at £100 to be honest.
You cant really expect it for nothing

O and there will alread be glasses on the table ready for the drinks to toast.

McKneff

Easy to think that but you dont seem to understand the logistics of it all.

wanchai_2

Our venue charges £7 a bottle corkage (v. steep) but we are providing plenty of wine for the dinner, wouldn't dream of not doing so.

Idiophreak

McKneff wrote: »

Easy to think that but you dont seem to understand the logistics of it all.

Err, I've got quite a good idea. I've actually stored, served and cleaned up quite a few bottles of wine over the years. I'm fairly sure if someone said "here's a bottle of wine...store it, serve it, clean up after it...I'll give you £10", I'd think that was a pretty good deal.

Stick bottle in fridge - 30 seconds.
Take bottle out of fridge and open. Plonk on a table - 3 minutes
Gather up four glasses and stick in dishwasher. Stick bottle in recycling - 2.5 minutes.

That means I've the capacity to do 10 bottles per hour, giving me a wage of £100/hour - I'm rich!

What logistical complexity am I overlooking here?