Wedding toast drink options!

View Quoted Comment No, we’re toasting with just plain Sake- but omg I have to try that when we go to Japan in May!! It sounds amazing 😁

We are not having alcohol at our wedding. We will have welchs sparkling grape juice for our toast. Having mocktails is a great option also.

I went to a dry wedding recently (my personal opinion is that it’s totally fine to have a dry wedding- but it will probably cut the dance/party short- I’m having a dry wedding because we don’t drink but it is like you’re summoning satan if you post that on WW lol) anyways- at this wedding they had some sort of sparkling cider from sams club and it was seriously amazing. Like tasty. I want to find it for our wedding!

We are toasting with Champagne, it is rude to invite people and not give them the option of a cocktail. Whether you drink or not.

View Quoted Comment I consider it rude more so for anyone to expect something at my wedding. thankfully, all the people we are inviting are not that demanding, so the concern isn't at all that people will think it's rude that we didn't provide them with alcohol at our wedding. We are providing them plenty of other things.

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That's awesome! I lived in Japan for three years and cannot wait to go back with FH and my son! It's in my top vacations that I want to take. Sake is a really unique toast option, I love it!

We are toasting with whatever people are drinking at the time. We are providing beer, wine, and two signature drinks.

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It's not demanding, it's taking care of your guests, as an proper host would do. You do you.

View Quoted Comment Yes, but I don't understand alcohol to be a basic necessity. Food, water, bathrooms, those are necessities at weddings.

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Those are the bare minimums in my opinion, heck anyone in prison gets those! The necessities at a wedding JUST in my opinion are great food, great drinks, amazing DJ, and an excellent reason (the couple) to be celebrating. I would never invite anyone to my house without having something they like to drink/eat available. I do not drink coffee at all, however, many of my friends/family do, so I offer it to them. Yes it's an extra expense, but I choose to be a good host.

View Quoted Comment To each their own I suppose is right. I prefer my wedding to be an accurate representation of me and my FH. Not a representation of what everyone else wants it to be. looking for alternative drink options, not an opinion on why no alcohol is bad. I apologize if that was not clear to everyone.

I don't agree with many of the prior posts. At the end of the day this is your wedding... the people are there to celebrate your love. If you don't want to provide alcohol at your wedding, that is totally fine. I think the toast is a good idea

All PPs that suggested you offer beer and wine for your guests are correct. And no one wants diluted champagne punch.

I think you should toast with whatever makes you happy, so if that's champagne punch, go with it!

Our wedding package used to come with a champagne toast for everyone until they updated the packages for this year, and now it's only for the head table ...so since we have an open bar we're not going to splurge and get champagne for everyone - most of our guests would probably rather toast us with a whiskey or a beer, anyway. But if you do want to do a fancy champagne-like option, French 75 is a yummy option, or there are all kinds of other "champagne cocktails" that I personally find delicious - but they're generally considered pretty girly so the guys might not really appreciate it.

My fiance drinks but I have just never developed a taste for it. I always wanted to pop a bottle of champagne at my wedding for our toast so I did some research and found something amazing. Sutter home has a line of non alcoholoc drinks called Fre, yes Fre not Free. It tastes amazing ao that is what we are using for ours. Its good some someone that doesnt like alcohol and since it ia alcohol free it is good if you are planning on driving after the reception like we are but you still get the fun of popping the cork.

View Quoted Comment Thanks for the info! I'll look into it.

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I agree! I'm of the same mindset and I've read posts on here (like this one) absolutely torching girls for stuff like this! We aren't big drinkers either, so we were actually thinking of doing what you just mentioned and potentially a (gasp!!!) cash bar. FH is from Milwaukee so everyone he knows is a HUGE drinker and I'm Baptist, so everyone I know thinks that alcohol is a sure fire path to hell (not really).

Could you do a toast with sparkling juice? I've always liked the taste of that. Otherwise, punch is great, or whatever they are currently drinking.

I understand, we have heavy drinkers on both sides of the family. But thankfully no one that will be mad if we're to have no alcohol. They care more about us as a couple than drinking alcohol. And we also have Christian family. Although, there is no one who does not drink or would be offended by drinking, we liked the idea of a minimally drunken wedding.
I'm thinking we'll figure out what will go best after our cake tasting (See what will pair well with our cake flavor). I'm sure sparkling juice would work fine.
Good luck on your non-alcoholic toast venture.

View Quoted Comment Also, we have good friends who are doing a cash bar with similar reasons as me and my FH doing minimal alcohol. I'm sure that would be fine too. There will always be complainers no matter what you do. Might as well do what you want!