130 person wedding, how many cases of beer should I have to please everybody?
I am planning our wedding for april and found a place that will allow us to purchase our own alcohol and have it served at their facility. How many cases of beer should I have for a 130 person wedding reception, lasting 4 hours, and how many cases of wine also?
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I don’t know, but these people do: http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-planning/diy-do-it-yourself-weddings/articles/how-to-stock-the-bar-at-your-wedding.aspx?MsdVisit=1
Are you having the wedding professionally catered? Ask the caterer. They have mathematical formulas for how much beer and wine to buy. Also, there are formulas for this on the internet. You might also want to have champagne.
FWIW, I think that 4 beers per adult is high. I would guess 2, and remember not everyone drinks beer.
At least one drink per hour per of-age guest.
i wouuld say 2 per person, because there is always going to be the people that wanna drink more, and those who will not wanna drink anything.
I would by one of them little tanks tho!!!! it would save you some bucks!!!
I’m guessing that everyone would drinks 4 beers (some will drink less, some more). That means that you need 17 cases. I’d provide 20 to have a nice round number.
First you have to figure out how many people are actually going to drink. Then you have to figure out how much these people usually drink. Are they going to just face a few or are they planning on getting completely wasted? I would probably purchase as a rough estimate of at least 80 cases if not more. That would be what like 7 a piece? And I’m not sure about the wine.
Determine how many adults are in your party, and how many within that group are drinkers. Assuming you’ll also have soft drinks too?
Now re:
WINE:
You get about 4 drinks out of one 750 ml. bottle of wine.
Or, figure one to two bottles of wine per table of 8.
CHAMPAGNE (For toasting):
You can get serve about 6-8 small glasses for the toasting
out of one 750 ml. bottle.
BEER:
Estimate up 2-3 bottles of beer for each person (again, you’re not going to include every guest; just a general percentage of ppl in your reception that are drinkers…..you’ll be safe if you estimate 40-50% of your adult guests).
Another consideration. If you’re having food professionally catered, ask them. They can give you a pretty good estimate.
Note: You don’t want anyone in your party to become too intoxicated (too many liability issues). You’d want just enough for your guests to enjoy the occasion.
Well for one I would say you can save a lot of money and buy kegs rather than cases of beer for the amount that you are talking about if it is possible, that way it can also be poured into glasses and looks a bit better than cans all over the place. For a number I would say 2 kegs as plenty, one would suffice. One keg equals roughly 168 cans of beer so if you are talking cases one keg equals 7 24 packs. As for wine if all 130 guests are adults I would say 2 cases of each red & white, if that includes children or you know they are lighter drinkers than one should be fine.
Bottles are tacky for a wedding get a keg. If you run out you run out but the odds are against running. So now you and new old lady can have a few by yourselfs.