Alcohol - how much?

We have 100 guests and worked on 2 bottles/person for the entire day (3pm till midnight) I'm slightly worried it's not enough but when we were working it out it seemed plenty.

Where are you going for your drink? We went to majestic and they have a great champagne offer on at the moment!! they are good at advice too. Plus if you dn't get through it all you can take up to 25% of it back!

We went to France last weekend, found a champagne we liked then the shop was closed! So we went back yesterday. Bit of a trek (we live in Nottingham) but we have nice, cheap champagne.
2 bottles per person of wine? I think I would be dead at the end of that!
In that case we cetrainly haven't got enough.
I'm not going back to France next weekend!

Gosh, 2 bottles per person...I'm worried we haven't got enough now!

We've got 130(ish) coming to the day and around another 50 coming to the evening. A fair few are heavy drinkers but a fair few are light drinkers / non drinkers too.

I haven't got the bit of paper with me at the mo but we've got something like this:

144 bottles of wine (a case of red and a case of white)
60 bottles champagne (2 glasses for reception and 1 for toasts pp)
2 firkins of beer (1 firkin is 72 pts)
Some amount of bottled lager (maybe about 50 of the small bottles? - can't remember this one)
Diet coke, coke, lemonade, OJ, sparkling water - can't remember amounts for this, sorry.

We're not having any spirits.

I would say you perhaps need some more wine but depends what your friends like to drink.

I'm hoping we've bought enough alcohol but I'm also sorting out an usher with directions to the nearest Tesco and a credit card in case it starts to run out on the day!

Hey,

Got married almost 2 years ago now and catered our own booze.

For 80 guests we got 2 litre bottles of Pimms for the welcome drink, 84 bottles of wine (red and white) and about 40 bottles of prosecco for the toasts. Then we got 50 cans of lager/beer for the rest.

We ended up with half of it left over, in the heat alot of people don't drink. I think over cautious is fine, if you have a caterer maybe ask what they would suggest?

HTH

I am just trying to remember how we worked it out. It made sense at the time:
we did drinks on the lawn (champers/red/white/rose)
drinks during dinner (white/red)
toast (champers)
evening drinks (red/white)

Taking it from 3pm in the afternoon to 9 hours later I thought 2 bottles was quite low .. but then I'm rather partial to a drink .. but then so are our mates.

That said, we tasted the champagne and the red wine the other weekend (half a bottle each) and I was plastered lol!!

It's tough. I say get loads, at least you won't run out. If we do end up running out at least we have the castle stock to fall back on (but people can pay for their own then to be honest!)

Aaargh my colleagues say 2 bottles each! So much money!

This has been a useful thread for me. We are buying all our booze (venue provides soft drinks & mixers)

I think we are having 20 bottle of champagne for toasts, I guess 80 bottles of nice red/white wine for the meal & then another 80ish of guzzling wine for the evening, plus a barrel of bitter & a couple of litres of vodka.

Also having a French aperitif for canapés so need about 12 bottles of that as it's really strong.

We are having about 90 people & I think our venue suggested about 2 bottles of wine per person.

We are getting our booze from France & have to endure a week of tasting various wines before we make our choice. Hard life eh?!

For 80 adult guests we're planning on getting:
30 bottles of champagne
40 bottles of red
40 bottles of white
1 barrel of ale
150 small bottles of beer
2 bottles of vodka
3 bottles of whiskey
1 bottle of rum

Seems quite a lot now but i think its better safe than sorry particular becuase it will be at my mums house which is miles from anywhere.

Well it looks like another trip to France then!

Thanks for all your help. On another (yet similar) note, is it ok to just have vodka and not other spirits? I don't want to spend loads of money on spirits that will be wasted (wine and champagne I can always drink at home but not whiskey etc)

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