Alcohol question

fangsiting

I started discussing this with FI tonight and he ended the conversation by asking me to post a the question on the knot.  Our caterer is doing a signature cocktail.  FI's dad's friend owns a vineyard and is giving us red wine for the reception.  This means we need to buy white wine, champagne & beer, but I'm not sure how much to buy for around 130 people.  All the calculators just give estimates for beer & wine.  I can divide the wine in half, but I'm not sure how much the signature cocktail will affect the total.  It probably won't affect the beer drinkers too much, but I see it being a big hit with my non-beer drinking family & friends.  Any ideas?  I'm using 130 average drinkers because several won't drink, but several more will take full advantage of the bar. 

Evite is telling me 390 bottles of beer and 78 bottles of wine.  How much would you let the signature cocktail affect this estimate? 

thesuninherhead

How many standard drinks or glasses/bottles per person is evite basing it's estimate on? 78 bottles of wine for 130 drinkers sounds a little intense to me, given that not all of them are going to be drinking wine. 

 

That said, I can't provide you with any idea as our venue didn't allow us to bring bottles in and I have no clue how many were consumed, just that it cost us around $2000 total for our 70 guests.

fangsiting

I'm not sure.  It didn't provide any break down.  That does seem like a lot.  Of course, it was a much nicer number than when I accidentally put in 55 for the length of time for our reception instead of 5.  I'm glad we don't have to buy 728 bottles of wine and 3,640 bottles of beer. 

ac_in_dc

Hmm...I'd maybe figure an average of one signature cocktail for each drinker? Maybe just subtract 100 drinks to be on the safe side...I'd subtract 12 bottles of white and 8 of red from the total that evite gives you (each bottle of wine is 5 drinks). Total guess, I'd definitely rather have too much then run out of alcohol.

And buy wine you like so you don't mind having leftovers.

SarahSmile23

abc and some other places will let you use unopened bottles. i'd overplan and return what i didn't use!