Providing ALL booze for wedding?

We supplied all of our own alcohol. We had a TON left over, but I will tell you what we did since our guest list was around the same.

99 bottles of wine (that included 12 prosecco - which is like champagne)

504 individual cans or bottles of beer (I can't remember how that worked out in cases) I do NOT suggest kegs.

8 bottles of vodka

2 bottles of firefly vodka

3 bottles of bourbon

1 small gin (we ran out of that)

2 bottles of tequila

2 bottles of rum

1 bottle of something like Crown Royal (the guy said it was better and cheaper)

We supplied all alcohol for 65 guests. The venue provided us with 4 premium spirits to build into our open bar estimate. We also bought cases of wine, which our guests really enjoyed. We bought 3 cases of champagne to cover the first toast. We had a signature cocktail set up at the bar as well, which was a hit.

We had a few bottles of wine leftover, but that was about it. Our venue coordinator was very helpful in assisting us in determining how much alcohol we needed.

The venues we are considering include a bartender and offer packages for the alcohol.

If your wedding guests are anything like we expect ours to be, they'll bring quite a bit of their own alcohol too. Our wedding is also out in the middle of nowhere (closest store is about 20 miles away) and FH's family loves to booze it up like yours. My family is a little more reserved, but still will drink. We're providing beer and wine. Beer will be mostly bottled/canned with maybe one keg of Coors or something. We will also bring a bottle or two of our favorite liquor for the wedding party.

It seems like it would get expensive providing all the alcohol for the entire weekend, but if you have the budget to do it, go for it! Maybe you can split it up so that the keg(s) will only be available at the wedding and the rehearsal dinner will only be wine, or something like that.

I know the answer for why kegs aren't suggested! You either have to drink it all or toss it. With bottles and cans you can take the leftovers home for later consumption.

It would probably be easiest to please everyone if you get a handful of kegs, and then liquor and mixers. Maybe some wine, but I find that typically if there is beer and liquor the wine drinkers can be appeased.

Holy crap Gamecock you had almost a bottle of wine PP? We did run out of wine but I only had about 20 bottles plus 12 champagne. We also had 10 cases of beer, two handles of vodka and whiskey for our signature drinks, and one handle of tequila, rum and gin which hardly anyone drank.

ETA: Also for 100 people.

We had a weekend wedding and supplied all of the alcohol as well. We went through a local liquor store so we ordered WAY TOO MUCH, they delivered it, and then picked up any unopened liquor after the weekend and we only paid for what was used. It was PERFECT!

J&K is correct on the Keg question. I think you only have like 24 hours once it's opened.

Yeah...we had a litttttttle bit too much. We got to take back most of our wine so that was awesome. We went with Rex Goliath (since it basically has a gamecock on the front) and they are only like $4/bottle.

We thought our crowd would be much better at partying, but unfortunately, they sucked.

We can't take the beer back to Total Wine because we had to write our name and date on each box. WHY did I not use a post it note?!

We have a full open bar the entire night at our venue, so we won't have to worry about how much or anything like that. Definitely a plus in having the bar and have a package through the venue!

What about pony kegs? That's our plan. Our venue asked (not required, but strongly asked) for all beer to be in cans. Well, not all good beers are available in cans. So we'll do pony kegs (about 80 drinks per).

Stocked our own bar at Costco for $600

We decided against a keg because I didn't want lines. Much faster to pop off a bottle top than to pour a beer.

First decide on your alcohol budget. Then decide what you want to provide. You know your guests best and you can only afford what you can afford. We are providing beer (some kegs and some bottles) and wine and peach sangria. As it gets closer to the wedding I'll see how much liquor I can afford (since we are slightly ahead of our budget, woohoo) and then go buy it from Specs or Costco.

Our wedding was smaller... 35 guests. We had 12 bottles of wine, 3 12pks. of bottled beer, 1 6pk. of hard cider and 1 6pk. of hard lemonade. We had 6 bottles of wine leftover and about 12 beers and a few hard ciders. Who wants to come over for a drink?

We also provided all the booze for our wedding. Here's what we went with for approximately 200 guests. (We had a ton leftover. A case of liquor is 6 bottles and a case of wine is 12 bottles).

1 case Jack Daniels whiskey (1.75 L)

2 cases Captain Morgan spiced rum (1.75 L)

1 case Captain Morgan white rum (1.75 L)

1 case Smirnoff vodka (1.75 L)

3 bottles Windsor Canadian whiskey (750 ml)

3 bottles Tanqueray gin (750 ml)

3 bottles Bacardi Limon (750 ml)

3 bottles Malibu coconut rum (750 ml)

3 bottles Kinky pink vodka (750 ml)

3 bottles Kinky blue vodka (750 ml)

We also had 3 bottles of a tequila that my dad picked up because he thought we needed it. We didn't. I think it was Jose Cuervo.

2 cases pinot grigio wine. I'm pretty sure we went with Yellowtail.

1 case Luccio moscato.

1 case Menage a Trois midnight wine.

3 kegs Bud Light. (These were all gone as we were eating dinner).

5- 12 packs of Stella Artois

5- 12 packs of Blue Moon.

Ashley...how much did you end up spending for all that? My wedding is about the same size and we are providing the alcohol

@Gamecock did you guys have the open bar all night or did it start at certain time ?

We are having about the same as you @Alicia and I am having a hard time trying to come up with how much to buy. I had an idea of having a popular signature drink and then the rest open bar with wine and beer. But still not sure on what to do ..... Great POST !

We had 101 attendees, and did wine (white and red), prosecco for the toasts (we prefer it to champagne), and two signature drinks, one with grey goose vodka and the other with bombay sapphire gin. We went through ~ 3-3.5 litres of vodka, ~4-5 litres of gin... but it totally depends on your group and what they typically drink.

We had a key and bottles for the beer. We ended up with only a few bottles left over and about 1/2 keg. My family being Scottish couldn't see it go to waste, so they poured it into 4L empty milk cartons the next day and my Dad, BIL and DH set about to 'finishing it off'.

If you are set on doing kegs, I would recommend ONLY offering whatever is in the keg first until it runs out, and AFTER it runs out, start offering the bottles.

We also had an open bar that started at 4:00pm and went until the end of the night (12-12:30).

Make sure that you also have a few non-alcoholic options.

Also, we put one open bottle of white wine and one red wine on each table for dinner. Once these were emptied, guests could go to the bar for more by the glass. They could ask for a bottle and bring it back to the table but only by request, this saved us from having a huge number of opened wine bottles that were only 1/4-1/2 used.

We are supplying all our alcohol (and non alcoholic drinks too). Luckily our caterer was a pretty big help but here's what we did...

We have a 'Limited bar'- beer, wine, and 2 specialty drinks.

We got enough beer and wine to last all night- I believe it's something along the lines of enough for 4 beers and 3 glasses of wine for every single guest.

Then we got enough for 75 drinks each of whiskey sours and an apple cider sangria plus we got 2 handles each of whiskey and rum as a kind of secret menu hack that if anyone REALLY wants it (or we run out of other things), it's there.

We have 130 guests coming- probably about half are big into drinking and the other half won't touch it or get just one drink.

I personally do not drink (add 2 bottles of alcohol free wine to that shopping list! :-D) and do not want people sloppy drunk at my wedding. FH and I discussed it ahead of time and made the decision that when something is gone, it's gone and that's it. I actually PLAN to run out of the specialty drinks and we are okay with that.

When FH and I were planning I know he had a hard time because he was in 'drinking party' mode and wanted to get massively excessive amounts of alcohol. You know your guests but also know that it's a wedding, not a house party. People will be busy doing other things besides constantly grabbing a drink.

Edit for more information-

We got bottles of wine to be poured, individual bottles of beer (it is much easier for us and the bar tenders- bucket of ice to keep enough cool, no extra glasses, no waiting to pour, no trying to keep the keg cold, etc), specialty drinks will be mixed beforehand and ready to pour, bottled water, and cans of soda.

Our entire bar (with non alcoholic drinks- soda, water, coffee, cocoa, etc) was about $1100.

Gamecox- Where do you live?! That Rex Goliath wine was $8/ bottle here and that was on sale for $3 off each bottle.