Alcohol

I believe if you get liquor from Costco or sams you can return unused. My friend who is a weeding coordinator told me of a local store who would do that. I’d limit it to 2-3 hard liquor plus beer and wine. The hard liquor the more mixers. Don’t forget to give non drinkers something. I went to a wedding once that had beer and wine. No water even. For summer you might do a lemonad or even some sort of punch.

We're doing wine (both regular and sparkling), 2 kinds of beer and a signature drink with rum! Saves tons of money this way

We had to hire bartenders and actually found ours on WeddingWire. They were OK, just be sure you are clear with them on your crowd and what you expect from them. For example: they provided the alcohol and mixers - we brought extra beer & vodka because we knew our crowd a lot of big drinkers. They ran out of CLUB SODA & SELTZER & LIMES within the first hour of our wedding. Thankfully one of my BM's told them to get their butts to a store and get more....or my guests would have been drinking straight vodka and tequila.... not a good idea.

It is more than fine to stick with just beer and wine to cut down on the cost. I am a vodka drinker but would not be disappointed if I couldn't get that but wine was offered.

Beer and wine is always a great option and it saves your some money.

The best way to save money on alcohol is to only offer beer and wine. Even though you have a lot of liquor drinkers, people will drink whatever is available and be happy with it. If you would like to offer some sort of liquor, a good way to save money is only offer 1 or 2 signature cocktails. This cuts down on having to buy too many types of liquors or mixers.

We are having a smaller event and decided to do signature drinks. Then we decided to just do gummy Jell-O shots. So much easier and lots of fun. It’s not a big fancy event, so it fits right in.