How many pint glasses?...

mikenberger · February 2015

So our world revolves around beer. We brew beer, we drink beer, we have 9 taps at home with beer. We're members of 3 different beer clubs and I work PT in a brewery. Seriously, the YouTube videos of "Shit beer snobs say"?... That's my every night. We are making all of the beer for our reception.

We are beer people. Our wedding will be around 60% beer people, just from our clubs. The rest are all drinkers as well, but not snobbery like we are

Anyways. We decided to do pint glasses for favors and for serving during the reception (Along with some other stuff - candy bar etc). Yes, there will be a wash station should people want to wash/dry their glasses for the ride home.

I have NO idea how many to order. I do not want these things hanging out at my house by the caseload. We are inviting 225 people with about 95% local. I figure kids won't need them (Roughly 20-25 kids), because we'll have canned soda, water and juice boxes for them to drink. We do have a couple of Busch Light exclusive drinkers so they won't require one either (5 people - yay family!). Thinking maybe 100 pint glasses and the rest in plastic cups?

Welcome to my overthought process. Damnit, I need more work to do.

tammym1001 · February 2015

If I drink beer I drink Coors light. That makes me so much not a beer snob, but I will tell you that if everyone is drinking their fancy beer out of a glass and I get handed a plastic cup like a child because I'm not cool enough for special beer I'm going to be irritated so please don't exclude your Busch light drinkers from your glass count.

With that being said, I don't think it's fair to ask your guests to drink out of the same glass all night long. I'm fine with you giving the glasses out as favors, but you should have separate glasses for people to drink out of all night. You can rent them from a company or see if your caterer will provide them.

mikenberger · February 2015

tammym1001 said:

If I drink beer I drink Coors light. That makes me so much not a beer snob, but I will tell you that if everyone is drinking their fancy beer out of a glass and I get handed a plastic cup like a child because I'm not cool enough for special beer I'm going to be irritated so please don't exclude your Busch light drinkers from your glass count.

With that being said, I don't think it's fair to ask your guests to drink out of the same glass all night long. I'm fine with you giving the glasses out as favors, but you should have separate glasses for people to drink out of all night. You can rent them from a company or see if your caterer will provide them.

No no no, this Busch Light is coming in the form of cans already. They won't pour them into a glass and when I get a canned beer and put it in a glass... lawdy. "What are you too good for a can? What's wrong with you!?"

These are my uncles. And sadly, neanderthals. I totally get where you're coming from though and will consider it

tammym1001 · February 2015

mikenberger said:

tammym1001 said:

If I drink beer I drink Coors light. That makes me so much not a beer snob, but I will tell you that if everyone is drinking their fancy beer out of a glass and I get handed a plastic cup like a child because I'm not cool enough for special beer I'm going to be irritated so please don't exclude your Busch light drinkers from your glass count.

With that being said, I don't think it's fair to ask your guests to drink out of the same glass all night long. I'm fine with you giving the glasses out as favors, but you should have separate glasses for people to drink out of all night. You can rent them from a company or see if your caterer will provide them.

No no no, this Busch Light is coming in the form of cans already. They won't pour them into a glass and when I get a canned beer and put it in a glass... lawdy. "What are you too good for a can? What's wrong with you!?"

These are my uncles. And sadly, neanderthals. I totally get where you're coming from though and will consider it

Ahh ok drinking out of the can is totally acceptable! I read it like they would get plastic and since they weren't drinking fancy beer. If they want to drink out of the can then more power to them.

mikenberger · February 2015

tammym1001 said:

mikenberger said:

tammym1001 said:

If I drink beer I drink Coors light. That makes me so much not a beer snob, but I will tell you that if everyone is drinking their fancy beer out of a glass and I get handed a plastic cup like a child because I'm not cool enough for special beer I'm going to be irritated so please don't exclude your Busch light drinkers from your glass count.

With that being said, I don't think it's fair to ask your guests to drink out of the same glass all night long. I'm fine with you giving the glasses out as favors, but you should have separate glasses for people to drink out of all night. You can rent them from a company or see if your caterer will provide them.

No no no, this Busch Light is coming in the form of cans already. They won't pour them into a glass and when I get a canned beer and put it in a glass... lawdy. "What are you too good for a can? What's wrong with you!?"

These are my uncles. And sadly, neanderthals. I totally get where you're coming from though and will consider it

Ahh ok drinking out of the can is totally acceptable! I read it like they would get plastic and since they weren't drinking fancy beer. If they want to drink out of the can then more power to them.

Yeah, sorry

Wasn't very clear on that. Thinking about doing some koozies too so they get something as well and it's not all beer glasses.

badbnagdway · February 2015

Are these pint glasses being personalized in some way? Most people on here will say they do not like glasses as favors. They are cumbersome and they do not want a personalized wedding glass cluttering up their cabinet. Personally, I cannot get enough free pint glasses, wine glasses and tasting glasses. I have a bunch, all logo'd up from events. They remind me of whatever the event was and, frankly, I break shit a lot and constantly acquiring more glasses, which are the things I break the most, is good for keeping us in drinkware.

I have been to events where you get a glass and it just gets rinsed when it gets filled and then it's given back to you. It worked ok for me. However, again, here this is an unpopular thing, so much so that I am not getting bourbon tasting glasses for our wedding and am just sticking with disposable shot cups for the bourbon.

In terms of the number of glasses, I think honestly it is rude to do this as a favor and not provide one for every single guest, whether they actually drink out of them or not. Maybe the kids are an exception, maybe. But my parents allowed my sister to have an extensive shot glass collection in her play house as a child (weird) so... they wouldn't have minded her getting a beer glass.

mikenberger · February 2015

badbnagdway said:

Are these pint glasses being personalized in some way? Most people on here will say they do not like glasses as favors. They are cumbersome and they do not want a personalized wedding glass cluttering up their cabinet. Personally, I cannot get enough free pint glasses, wine glasses and tasting glasses. I have a bunch, all logo'd up from events. They remind me of whatever the event was and, frankly, I break shit a lot and constantly acquiring more glasses, which are the things I break the most, is good for keeping us in drinkware.

I have been to events where you get a glass and it just gets rinsed when it gets filled and then it's given back to you. It worked ok for me. However, again, here this is an unpopular thing, so much so that I am not getting bourbon tasting glasses for our wedding and am just sticking with disposable shot cups for the bourbon.

In terms of the number of glasses, I think honestly it is rude to do this as a favor and not provide one for every single guest, whether they actually drink out of them or not. Maybe the kids are an exception, maybe. But my parents allowed my sister to have an extensive shot glass collection in her play house as a child (weird) so... they wouldn't have minded her getting a beer glass.

Well, I was thinking about doing pint glasses and then koozies. And people could just pick what they wanted. Yeah, the glasses will be personalized, but like you said, I have TONS of glasses with personalizations on them from whatever event or brewery I got them from. It's always a great convo starter. We'll definitely have enough glasswear (pints, koozies, disposable) so if people wanted to keep their glasses clean, they could just use a plastic cup.

Think I might just do half and half for glasses and koozies. I just don't want cases of these glasses in my house lol but you always run that risk with favors.

badbnagdway · February 2015

mikenberger said:

badbnagdway said:

Are these pint glasses being personalized in some way? Most people on here will say they do not like glasses as favors. They are cumbersome and they do not want a personalized wedding glass cluttering up their cabinet. Personally, I cannot get enough free pint glasses, wine glasses and tasting glasses. I have a bunch, all logo'd up from events. They remind me of whatever the event was and, frankly, I break shit a lot and constantly acquiring more glasses, which are the things I break the most, is good for keeping us in drinkware.

I have been to events where you get a glass and it just gets rinsed when it gets filled and then it's given back to you. It worked ok for me. However, again, here this is an unpopular thing, so much so that I am not getting bourbon tasting glasses for our wedding and am just sticking with disposable shot cups for the bourbon.

In terms of the number of glasses, I think honestly it is rude to do this as a favor and not provide one for every single guest, whether they actually drink out of them or not. Maybe the kids are an exception, maybe. But my parents allowed my sister to have an extensive shot glass collection in her play house as a child (weird) so... they wouldn't have minded her getting a beer glass.

Well, I was thinking about doing pint glasses and then koozies. And people could just pick what they wanted. Yeah, the glasses will be personalized, but like you said, I have TONS of glasses with personalizations on them from whatever event or brewery I got them from. It's always a great convo starter. We'll definitely have enough glasswear (pints, koozies, disposable) so if people wanted to keep their glasses clean, they could just use a plastic cup.

Think I might just do half and half for glasses and koozies. I just don't want cases of these glasses in my house lol but you always run that risk with favors.

So there is a risk that people are going to take both a pint glass and a koozie and then some people will get nothing. I agree you don't want to end up with a million of these things but you also don't want to run out prematurely.

mikenberger · February 2015

badbnagdway said:

mikenberger said:

badbnagdway said:

Are these pint glasses being personalized in some way? Most people on here will say they do not like glasses as favors. They are cumbersome and they do not want a personalized wedding glass cluttering up their cabinet. Personally, I cannot get enough free pint glasses, wine glasses and tasting glasses. I have a bunch, all logo'd up from events. They remind me of whatever the event was and, frankly, I break shit a lot and constantly acquiring more glasses, which are the things I break the most, is good for keeping us in drinkware.

I have been to events where you get a glass and it just gets rinsed when it gets filled and then it's given back to you. It worked ok for me. However, again, here this is an unpopular thing, so much so that I am not getting bourbon tasting glasses for our wedding and am just sticking with disposable shot cups for the bourbon.

In terms of the number of glasses, I think honestly it is rude to do this as a favor and not provide one for every single guest, whether they actually drink out of them or not. Maybe the kids are an exception, maybe. But my parents allowed my sister to have an extensive shot glass collection in her play house as a child (weird) so... they wouldn't have minded her getting a beer glass.

Well, I was thinking about doing pint glasses and then koozies. And people could just pick what they wanted. Yeah, the glasses will be personalized, but like you said, I have TONS of glasses with personalizations on them from whatever event or brewery I got them from. It's always a great convo starter. We'll definitely have enough glasswear (pints, koozies, disposable) so if people wanted to keep their glasses clean, they could just use a plastic cup.

Think I might just do half and half for glasses and koozies. I just don't want cases of these glasses in my house lol but you always run that risk with favors.

So there is a risk that people are going to take both a pint glass and a koozie and then some people will get nothing. I agree you don't want to end up with a million of these things but you also don't want to run out prematurely.

Maybe I'll just run around and Bridezilla that shit and slap it out of their hand. MAYBE! I'll put on a chalkboard "Don't be a greedy gus! Only take one or the other! Not both!" Or should I have kids with signs carrying around those sentiments?

badbnagdway · February 2015

mikenberger said:

badbnagdway said:

mikenberger said:

badbnagdway said:

Are these pint glasses being personalized in some way? Most people on here will say they do not like glasses as favors. They are cumbersome and they do not want a personalized wedding glass cluttering up their cabinet. Personally, I cannot get enough free pint glasses, wine glasses and tasting glasses. I have a bunch, all logo'd up from events. They remind me of whatever the event was and, frankly, I break shit a lot and constantly acquiring more glasses, which are the things I break the most, is good for keeping us in drinkware.

I have been to events where you get a glass and it just gets rinsed when it gets filled and then it's given back to you. It worked ok for me. However, again, here this is an unpopular thing, so much so that I am not getting bourbon tasting glasses for our wedding and am just sticking with disposable shot cups for the bourbon.

In terms of the number of glasses, I think honestly it is rude to do this as a favor and not provide one for every single guest, whether they actually drink out of them or not. Maybe the kids are an exception, maybe. But my parents allowed my sister to have an extensive shot glass collection in her play house as a child (weird) so... they wouldn't have minded her getting a beer glass.

Well, I was thinking about doing pint glasses and then koozies. And people could just pick what they wanted. Yeah, the glasses will be personalized, but like you said, I have TONS of glasses with personalizations on them from whatever event or brewery I got them from. It's always a great convo starter. We'll definitely have enough glasswear (pints, koozies, disposable) so if people wanted to keep their glasses clean, they could just use a plastic cup.

Think I might just do half and half for glasses and koozies. I just don't want cases of these glasses in my house lol but you always run that risk with favors.

So there is a risk that people are going to take both a pint glass and a koozie and then some people will get nothing. I agree you don't want to end up with a million of these things but you also don't want to run out prematurely.

Maybe I'll just run around and Bridezilla that shit and slap it out of their hand. MAYBE! I'll put on a chalkboard "Don't be a greedy gus! Only take one or the other! Not both!" Or should I have kids with signs carrying around those sentiments?

Do you have uneven sides between bridesmaids and groomsmen? Maybe you could ask one of them to guard the favor table instead. I'm sure they'd be honored.

mikenberger · February 2015

badbnagdway said:

mikenberger said:

badbnagdway said:

mikenberger said:

badbnagdway said:

Are these pint glasses being personalized in some way? Most people on here will say they do not like glasses as favors. They are cumbersome and they do not want a personalized wedding glass cluttering up their cabinet. Personally, I cannot get enough free pint glasses, wine glasses and tasting glasses. I have a bunch, all logo'd up from events. They remind me of whatever the event was and, frankly, I break shit a lot and constantly acquiring more glasses, which are the things I break the most, is good for keeping us in drinkware.

I have been to events where you get a glass and it just gets rinsed when it gets filled and then it's given back to you. It worked ok for me. However, again, here this is an unpopular thing, so much so that I am not getting bourbon tasting glasses for our wedding and am just sticking with disposable shot cups for the bourbon.

In terms of the number of glasses, I think honestly it is rude to do this as a favor and not provide one for every single guest, whether they actually drink out of them or not. Maybe the kids are an exception, maybe. But my parents allowed my sister to have an extensive shot glass collection in her play house as a child (weird) so... they wouldn't have minded her getting a beer glass.

Well, I was thinking about doing pint glasses and then koozies. And people could just pick what they wanted. Yeah, the glasses will be personalized, but like you said, I have TONS of glasses with personalizations on them from whatever event or brewery I got them from. It's always a great convo starter. We'll definitely have enough glasswear (pints, koozies, disposable) so if people wanted to keep their glasses clean, they could just use a plastic cup.

Think I might just do half and half for glasses and koozies. I just don't want cases of these glasses in my house lol but you always run that risk with favors.

So there is a risk that people are going to take both a pint glass and a koozie and then some people will get nothing. I agree you don't want to end up with a million of these things but you also don't want to run out prematurely.

Maybe I'll just run around and Bridezilla that shit and slap it out of their hand. MAYBE! I'll put on a chalkboard "Don't be a greedy gus! Only take one or the other! Not both!" Or should I have kids with signs carrying around those sentiments?

Do you have uneven sides between bridesmaids and groomsmen? Maybe you could ask one of them to guard the favor table instead. I'm sure they'd be honored.

Maybe I'll get one of my junior bridesmaids to do it.

lyndausvi · February 2015

At weddings I drink out of glasses. It feels classier to me. I am too much of a snob to drink out of a plastic cup when glasses are available.

I would HATE to drink out of a glass that I'm responsible for holding the entire event. I foresee a lot of random glasses sitting around. Especially if you are having dancing.

I also would like to try different beers. So are you going to have water buckets so people can rise their glasses out?

IDK, I seems like a good idea on paper, I'm just not sure in execution.

I'm not sure the answer other than 100 doesn't seem like enough when you have 225 people with most of them beer drinkers. Even you can beer drinkers might like a pint glass over a koozie.

Pint glasses have a lot of uses other then just beer. Mixed drinks, sodas, etc.

atlastmrsg · February 2015

I wouldn't take a glass OR koozie. I just don't have use or space for either.

That being said, if it's a favor, you need to be prepared to have enough of whatever you decide on for everyone. When I was 20, I'd probably have taken a pint glass since anything was an upgrade from a solo cup. Even if I wasn't supposed to be drinking beer out of it. But I probably would've done that, too.

JennyColada · February 2015

I'm confused. So you're using these as favors but you're actively planning to not give them to all of your guests? This just sounds so odd.

Also, if I put an open container down and walk away I'm not drinking from the same cup. That's years of rape awareness in my brain.

Kahlyla · February 2015

Here's what I would do:

- go ahead and personalize them, but not with anything "wedding" - maybe with more a personal brand/logo for the two of you
- order enough for every guest to take one
- with any that are left over, do take them home; rather than having a bunch of wedding favours you now have custom pint glasses for your home bar (maybe you already have a logo or a theme for the beers you brew?) and you can set up a cool display for them and continue to use them.

badbnagdway · February 2015

Kahlyla said:

Here's what I would do:

- go ahead and personalize them, but not with anything "wedding" - maybe with more a personal brand/logo for the two of you
- order enough for every guest to take one
- with any that are left over, do take them home; rather than having a bunch of wedding favours you now have custom pint glasses for your home bar (maybe you already have a logo or a theme for the beers you brew?) and you can set up a cool display for them and continue to use them.

Or donate the extra if there are more than could be reasonably used at home.

theartistformerlyknownas · February 2015

I would just order one for every guest as a favor, maybe fill it with candy and leave one at each place setting. Then rent glasses for everyone to actually use.

Yeah, you may end up with lots left behind, but with 9 taps at home they should go to good use!

augsum15 · February 2015

lolo883 said:

I would just order one for every guest as a favor, maybe fill it with candy and leave one at each place setting. Then rent glasses for everyone to actually use. Yeah, you may end up with lots left behind, but with 9 taps at home they should go to good use!

I agree, and there's nothing saying a kid can't drink out of a pint glass, they just can't drink beer. Why not just personalize the Pint glasses to save yourself the extra cost of getting the koozies, and then fill them with whatever and people take one home. Tie a ribbon or tag it so it's clear that it's the favor. Then, use the money you save to rent glasses so if people drink a couple types of beer, they get a clean glass (someone above said this, too lazy to scroll up!) And if they want to use their favor glass that night, that's their own prerogative!

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