How much wine?

wlfpkbride · February 2010

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how much wine we should get. I don't want any surprises so we're going to get a specified amount and they will stop serving when that runs out. I was toying with the idea of having beer as well because it's a little more economical...potentially. It's cheaper but some people that don't drink wine will drink beer. I guess it could end up costing more.

The trouble with beer...FI's grandparents are super religious and are completely against drinking. We want them to be as comfortable as possible while still making our guests (and us) happy. We can at least point out that Jesus drank wine...can't really play that card with beer.

I went through our guest list and I estimated about 70ish drinkers. We are having a lunch reception so we don't expect people to drink a ton. How many bottles would you get?

meredithl618 · February 2010

Have you asked Wendy? She probably can estimate for a lunch reception at TSC better than we can. Are you buying your own or just telling TSC you only want to go through X amount of bottles?

sjh456 · February 2010

http://www.evite.com/pages/party/drink-calculator.jsp

VERY helpful!

brokenhallelujah · February 2010

Thanks for that link. We are providing our own alcohol at the reception (doing beer & wine) and that'll be helpful when it comes time to buy the boose.

Jemmessica · February 2010

We bought 3 cases (3 different wines) and 2 (1/2) kegs- it was the perfect amount for our 100 guests- however only about 1/2-2/3 of our guests drink.

sundrop24 · February 2010

How long is your reception? Maybe figure on 70 people having 2 glasses of wine? Are you doing both red and white wine? We are supplying our own alcohol too. That's a lot to think about. Just know, don't buy overboard. I have bartended several weddings where people supply the alcohol and it seems like there was always a ton leftover.

wlfpkbride · February 2010

When I asked Wendy about it she just said people should drink less than they would at a dinner reception. She was kind of trying to push us toward not limiting it and only basing it off consumption. We're not going to do that because it's important for us to not go over budget. We haven't decided if we're going to supply our own or just have them cut it off at a certain number of bottles...we're going to compare prices. Our reception is going to be 4 hours total. I think we may plan for 2-3 glasses per person.

kgaliger · February 2010

We bought about $400 in wine. If I remember correctly. We bought a case of Sav. Blanc 1/2 case of Chard. 1.5 cases of Merlot and .5 case of Cab. We had about a case left over. We bought everything through Trader Joes and just returned the ones left over for a cash refund w/the receipt. We had 80 something people at our wedding and at least 3/4 if not more of them drank. Let me know if you want any wine recs!

meredithl618 · February 2010

Okay, that calculator seems to be really high. Idk what the light-heavy drinker means in number of drinks. I think some of the pp's suggestions for amounts are prob. pretty good.

sjh456 · February 2010

If you say that you have 70 "average" drinkers, they recommend 28 bottles of wine, which is actually less than 2 glasses a person (assuming you're getting 4 glasses per bottle. Some people squeeze 5 per bottle... that's really up to you). Not sure how that calculates as "high", but to each his (or her) own...

pirategal03 · February 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_north-carolina_much-wine?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:115Discussion:600ca5db-81f3-40a6-acf9-f94480b7cfb9Post:057bd8ba-3a49-46d1-b379-f1ed0d8b30cd">Re: How much wine?</a>:
[QUOTE]If you say that you have 70 "average" drinkers, they recommend 28 bottles of wine, which is actually less than 2 glasses a person (assuming you're getting 4 glasses per bottle. Some people squeeze 5 per bottle... that's really up to you). Not sure how that calculates as "high", but to each his (or her) own...
Posted by sjh456[/QUOTE]

That's for one hour. 1.6 glasses of wine per hour is a little high for what I would call an "average" drinker. I would call 1 drink/hour/person average.

cdrierson · February 2010

I'm assuming the religion is Christianity. I know you didn't ask for my advice regarding this alcohol topic, but I've had to deal with this topic with my own parents and my advice is regarding Christianity and alcohol. My parents are super religious as well, and my mom never drinks and my dad rarely does. I occasionally drink, and we will be having beer and wine at our wedding, but it is all on our dime. We will not be serving liquor because it is 1) too expensive, and 2) people can easily get drunk on it vs. wine or beer.

There's no verse in the Bible that says people cannot drink. The Bible states "Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on too much meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags." Proverbs 23:20 "Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine." Isaiah 5:11 The Bible warns more on the level of becoming drunk, and losing your ability to discern.

With a lunch reception, the liklihood of people getting flat out drunk is a lot less than an evening wedding.

I'm not sure if it will help you at all in regarding serving beer in addition to wine if you are wanting both.

shigaites · February 2010

What if you served wine cocktails that would cut the amount of wine served? Something like mimosas but maybe different juice? I don't know if that would really make a difference in price but it could.

wlfpkbride · February 2010

Yes, they're Christian. They're pretty extreme though so they definitely wouldn't agree with that. They don't even go to movies.

shigaites · February 2010

Are they hardcore Southern Baptists? It sounds like they follow the same sorts of rules as the Southern Baptists in my grandmother's area of SC.

cdrierson · February 2010

Another thing to take into consideration when calculating how much you need is the crowd you will serving to. You said you have 70ish drinkers, but do they all drink wine?

Some people think free alcohol is alcohol, but there are some who just don't like wine at all.

Samwise16 · February 2010

Shoot my stepdad's side of the family is hardcore religious but they're Catholic... so I'm EXPECTED to have wine. :P

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