byob Weddings – What do you plan to serve??

We’re doing beer, wine, and three signature cocktails.

We're doing three kinds of bottled beer, one white wine and one red wine. No hard liquor, we don't want to give the few heavy drinkers we have the opportunity to go overboard.

I’d keep it simple. A light beer, a dark beer, one white, one red, and maybe some champagne for a toast. If you want hard liquor then I’d just have 1 or 2 premade signature drinks. Don’t over complicate!

^one white and one red *wine*. If that wasn’t obvious lol.

We were also a BYOB venue. In my culture it is expected to have cognac so that's what we had. Our venue also gave us red wine.

I’m doing BYOB also because I don’t wanna feel responsible if anything happened to someone knowing I’m the one that had the drinks . But I told them its BYOB

We are doing beer and wine and our venue only allows a signature drink for the cocktail hour. But pretty sure we are going to do Coors and an IPA of some sort and then wine whatever my mom and aunt pick out since I don't drink wine hah

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We are providing the alcohol for our guests and not paying our venue to provide it as it is more expensive. I wouldn't ask my guests to bring their own alcohol and your venue may not allow it. Something to check on if you are using a private venue.

We are doing a red wine, a white wine and a Zinfandel. For beer we are having 4 different brands.

View Quoted Comment I agree with kayla, make sure your venue allows it , my venue allowed it if I hired someone but I had pay an extra $500 plus have insurance per person for it. But if people brought there own I don’t have to pay extra

We are doing two signature cocktails, but no hard liquor outside of that. And my FH is choosing 2-3 beers and I'm going to choose 2-3 ciders and we will also have a wine or two (neither of us are wine drinkers so I'm super unsure what we are doing for that)

We're doing BYOB from Binny's where they allow us to return any unopened alcohol. I would see if there is any similar liquor store or delivery service that does something similar where you live.


We'll be providing one version of white wine, red wine, one light beer, and one craft beer. For the liquor I'm including it as part of the RSVP to see what people most commonly drink so that we can have 3 options available (most likely vodka, run, and whiskey).
It might actually be cheaper to do a signature drink so that you don't have to include a bunch of extra sodas and mixers. Most of our crowd drinks mixed drinks over beer and wine which is why we'll invest more into liquor