For those without a bar - how do you keep your drinks cool?

lil_miss_insanity

As it says, really, I'm planning on having a drinks reception at a venue that isn't really a wedding venue, and it's just dawned on me that we'll end up with warm bucks fizz. Is anyone else in a similar situation and, if so, do you have any ingenious solutions?

LEJC

If you can manage to keep them hidden...large pastic builder rubble buckets filled with ice work quite well as you can get lots of bottles in each one...but they do get very heavy when filled with ice!

About £10 each from places like tool station or a builders merchant..although you usually find them in either orange yellow or blue!

lil_miss_insanity

LEJC wrote: »

If you can manage to keep them hidden...large pastic builder rubble buckets filled with ice work quite well as you can get lots of bottles in each one...but they do get very heavy when filled with ice!

About £10 each from places like tool station or a builders merchant..although you usually find them in either orange yellow or blue!

Great idea! Just found a massive one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faulks-SP75BL-Tubtrugs-Extra-Large/dp/B000UJWNZ6

or http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faulks-Co-SP42BL-Trug-BLUE/dp/B000A63M0O for smaller - and my colour scheme is royal blue

Now I have to work out whose job it is to fetch ice...

Scotsbride

lil_miss_insanity wrote: »

As it says, really, I'm planning on having a drinks reception at a venue that isn't really a wedding venue, and it's just dawned on me that we'll end up with warm bucks fizz. Is anyone else in a similar situation and, if so, do you have any ingenious solutions?

metal dustbins filled with ice! baths filled with ice cool boxes!

madvixen

We're also using rubble buckets but rather than ice (which melts), I'm filling some balloons, in our wedding colours, with water and them freezing those and popping them in the buckets.

daisyboo

I got some of those huge flexi tubs in my local tesco home store last week they were only £1.98 reduced in red or black. They had other colours at full price about £2.50

The balloon idea is fab, might try this will the ice not take up loads of the room in the tubs tho?

x

daisyboo

http://www.tesco.com/direct/42l-flexi-tub-3-pack-silver/211-9804.prd?skuId=211-9804&pageLevel=

LEJC

daisyboo wrote: »

The balloon idea is fab, might try this will the ice not take up loads of the room in the tubs tho?

x

You slot the bottles between the balloons I assume...It sounds a great way of doing it and hopefully it should work well...

What you do need to make sure is that you dont overfill the containers with the ice...because as it melts the weight of the moving liquid could cause the sides of the container to collapse...Ive used ribble buckets loads of times and you probably need to fill them about half full and then

put in the bottles...or even fell them a third full initially and as the ice melts top them up...if you can also keep them out of direct sunlight then it should take hours for the ice to melt.

Dekazer

We had builders flexi tubs and got a load of ice delivered. I think the ice was delivered at about half 2, and the drinks were all still perfectly chilled at midnight

minerva_windsong

Cool boxes perhaps? I have no idea if you can even get them any more but if you're not going to have bottles out on display then that could be worth looking into...

zcrat41

We had a marquee wedding and for £50 hired a chiller van. We did it fairly last minute but I rang the kind of people that have them from a quick google (mainly farmers that do farmers markets) and had one.

Fab way of keeping everything cold.