Our food package also covers our cocktail hour (beer, wine, cocktails), ice and hot tea and coffee for the whole night and a champagne toast. Beyond that, we can put a certain amount towards the bar and pay the tab or go with a per person package.
The per-person package price covers beer, wine and soda for the 4 remaining hours. We'll break even if each guest consumes four alcoholic drinks over the last hour hours (or eight sodas, they are half the price of drinks).
Basically, we're trying to guess how much people are going to drink after the cocktail hour and which option makes more financial sense. About 10% of the guests will be under 21. Which would you pick?
Bonus question: do you think much wine will get wasted if we put a bottle of red on each table with dinner?