Reception drinks

We're going for a mixture of arrival drinks, probably bottles of beer, prosecco, peach Bellini (the venues signature cocktail) and fruit juice for the kids. I think our venue will put out a quantity of each.

Mr K's cousin got married a couple of years ago, and their RSVP card had a box to tick for which arrival drink we wanted. Granted it was either lager or Buck's Fizz, so you could pretty much guarantee that the women would have Buck's Fizz and the men lager!

Bellini is a nice idea...thanks! Our caterers keep offering to help and provide multi ingredient cocktails so that could be easy and elegant!

Might be worth going for a couple of crates of beers too....

Is it a summer or winter wedding?

You could have champagne, red / white wine, pimms (all different flavours depending on season) & mulled wine again depending on time of year. Bucks fizz always goes down well too I think

I'm not sure on quantities for that amount of wedding but i'd probably buy more than needed to make sure there's enough and sure it wouldn't be wasted

I must admit I think bucks fizz is pretty boring, and if you can bring in your own alcohol, you can be a lot more imaginative

We had kir royale for reception drinks, although instead of champagne had prosecco so could afford to provide a lot more of it. It's just fizz with a smidgen of crème de cassis, which is a gorgeous blackcurrant liqueur.

The other poster's suggestion of a bellini is great suggestion.

It's for July this year, managed to find some great Prosecco for the toasts so could simply buy more and add a twist to it. Could also have plain fizz too as an option and soft drinks...

Something light and fresh is the aim!

I was also going to suggest bellinis, yum. You can get large cartons of really nice peach puree in Lidl.

We are having champagne and Pimms as our reception drink and are suppliying our own alcohol. These are the quantities my caterer gave me for 65 guests

Reception

Sparkling Wine – 24-30 Bottles

Pimms – 7-8 bottles (75cl) of Pimms & 20 litres of Lemonade (Schweppes Lemonade recommended)

Soft Drink – Elderflower Presse 8-12 bottles.

Dinner

White wine – 30-42 Bottles

Red Wine – 36-48 Bottles

Toast

Sparkling Wine – 18 Bottles maximum

We are having peach bellinis too ;-)