Bar Calculator For Wedding In Salt Lake
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For a 4 hour party with 250 guests, you will need approximately 1000 drinks: 400 beers, 360 glasses of wine (72 bottles) and enough for 240 individual cocktails (amounts will depend upon what type of cocktail you serve). If you aren't serving wine, plan on 600 cocktails.
If you have a crowd that likes beer then you may wish to provide 1.5-2 beers per person.
We've done smaller weddings with packed bar lines, and larger weddings with lowkey bar lines. It really all depends on your guests! The general rule of thumb is 50 guests for every 1 bartender for a full service bar. If you're just doing beer and wine, you can probably get away with 1 bartender for every 75 guests.
So as guide, if you have 100 guests, you will need around 50 bottles of wine (mix of red and white.) Plus around 300 pints/bottles of lager, beer and cider.
For example, a typical selection for a party of 100 people would be 400 standard drinks, distributed in this way: 200 – 12oz. bottles or cans of beer (400 x 50% = 200 drinks.
200 GUESTS: 140 bottles of wine. 350 bottles of beer. 30 bottles of liquor (750 ml) 40 bottles of champagne for toast (optional)
A good rule of thumb for estimating is 2-3 drinks per person for the cocktail hour, then 1 drink per person per hour for the rest of the reception. So for example - for a cocktail hour then 4 hour reception for 65 guests you'll need to be prepared to serve at least 350-400 drinks!
200 GUESTS: 140 bottles of wine. 350 bottles of beer. 30 bottles of liquor (750 ml) 40 bottles of champagne for toast (optional)
For a 4 hour party with 100 guests, you will need approximately 400 drinks: 160 beers, 144 glasses of wine (29 bottles) and enough liqueur for 96 individual cocktails (amounts will depend upon what type of cocktail you serve). If you aren't serving wine, plan on 240 cocktails.
(So for a six-hour wedding with 100 guests, you'll need roughly 600 drinks.) Alex Tornai, party planner for Binny's Beverage Depot, errs on the side of more drinks per person (and we're here for it): “Two drinks in the first hour and one drink per hour for the duration of the evening,” he says.
