Champagne for Wedding - Tesco's?

airforce_beret

Evening All,

Spent all night trawling the internet to decide on a champagne for our wedding (not until next year...phew). Looking to spend between £15 and £30 per bottle but......venue is going to charge £12 per bottle corkage.

A few people we have asked so far is recommending Tesco's Own Premier Cru Champagne. Only around £14 a bottle with free delivery.

Anyone buy this often or used it for their own wedding....any opinions are helpful ones.

Any other brands would be appreciated too. Have looked at....
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut NV
Moet & Chandon NV Champagne



Thanks in Advance!

alison6692

Hiya

Does it have to be champagne? Marks and Spencer sell a pink sparkly which is about £7 and its sooo lovely. Its not champagne but I got married last year and we served sparkly not champers and nobody seemed to mind.

From my experience things like serving a sparkling wine rather than a champagne is a great way to save lots of money.

Alison x

airforce_beret

cheers alison, were already getting sparkling wine with the wedding package but were abit set on champagne (no particular reason).

any money saved anywhere is a bonus! think were at about 12 grand for the day at mo.....jeeeeeeeezzzzzz

thanks again

alison6692

No probs - I wasn't much help really - ha ha.

The other idea is to double these up as wedding favours

CLICK - they are fab - lot of JohnLewis money off codes floating around.

If you are getting a sparkly for your toasts then thats fab!
If you can save yourself a few hundred by not having champers at all - you could put it towards the the honeymoon! yay

Have fun planning x

Alison x

airforce_beret

thanks alison....it's all good fun! hehe

bunty109

I think the Tesco stuff is perfectly fine. There was a discussion about it recently on paid to shop if you take a look over there and people made lots of suggestions as to good champagnes.

If you do order champers from Tesco don't forget to make use of some of the excellent extra points codes on wine orders and put them through in batches: if you are ordering a few cases you could get quite a few points to put towards a nice night away for you and your OH

airforce_beret

thanx bunty, already got our eye on the points. think we may use all our points towards Goldsmith's. Have to spend over £200 i think but good for our wedding rings

alison6692

Ooh wedding rings - I bought mine here - Platinum band for £200

CLICK

let me know if you need any other advice re weddings - I ran a moneysaving bridal website for a year but have recently stopped as it was taking over my life and not making me any money but if you need any advice just PM me.

Alison x

ailuro2

Try to find a supplier for Sarcey, it's made by the Diageo company, it's what my s-i-l had at her wedding.Lovely champagne,easily likeable,she paid less than £14 a bottle,but she did work for Diageo at the time. And looks posher than serving Tesco's.:D

For my money Hardy's Crest Pinot Noir is woth the 4.99 special offer price they do in Tesco on a regular basis- very drinkable and nice bubbles.

ailuro2

http://www.winedirect.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=94&products_id=5445 is the winedirect link for it £14.95 a single bottle.

Veuve is my favourite Champers, but I never find it for less than £23 a bottle, so hard to justify unless someone else gives it to me as a present.

Justie

champagne is usually poured into glasses and then served for the toasts etc - no one but the waiting staff will see the bottles so don't worry about it 'looking posh' anything fizzy will do and a lot of people prefer something less dry than champagne anyway.