75 guests · evening wedding · 6 hours · seated dinner · mixed bar. Computed with the engine professional crews use, not a rule of thumb.
Wedding
What a 75-guest wedding bar needs
≈ 1465 bar serves for 75 guests over 6 hours on a mixed bar with a seated dinner. Water covers bar and table, still and sparkling.
Wine (all types)29 bottles
Sparkling (toast)13 bottles
Beer113 units
Non-alcoholic beer1 case
Spirits (all bottles)40 bottles
Soft drinks & mixers26 cases
Water386 bottles
Team on shift7 people
Ice200 kg · 100 bags
Free numbers from the same engine the full planner runs. Pro turns them into the exact order per product, cocktail ingredients, glassware and one shopping list.
Team
The crew behind 75 guests
7 team members
Bartenders2
Barbacks1
Runners2
Glass cleaners1
Dinner runners (dinner only)1
Range: 7 (minimum and recommended) · 8 (comfortable).
Ice
Ice for 75 guests
200 kg of ice
Cube ice (drinks & chilling)150 kg75 bags
Crushed ice (cocktails)50 kg25 bags
Total to order100 bags20 sacks of 10 kg
When they actually drink it
Those 1465 serves do not arrive evenly: the opening hour is the fastest, about 284 serves, because every guest wants a first drink at once; over hours 2–4 the bar settles into a steady 236 serves an hour; through hour 5 the pace eases to around 237 an hour as the crowd winds down; through hour 6 the pace eases to around 236 an hour as the crowd winds down. The totals above already carry this curve, so the bar is stocked for the surge, not for the average.
Field note: the garnish fruit is always on the order
Whatever the menu, Green Jar ships 2–4 kg of lemons and 3–5 kg of oranges with every bar, scaled to attendance. A bar without cut fruit reads as understocked long before any bottle actually runs out, so the fruit never waits for a cocktail list to justify it.
Adjust it to your event
Same engine, live. Change the crowd, the bar or the hours and recalculate.
Guests
Seated dinner served?
Bar service
Duration
Wedding
Frequently asked questions
How much alcohol do I need for 75 guests at a wedding?
Plan for about 1465 bar serves over 6 hours. On a mixed bar that becomes roughly 29 bottles of wine, 113 units of beer, 40 bottles of spirits and 26 cases of soft drinks and mixers, plus 386 bottles of water.
How much wine do I need for a wedding dinner of 75 guests?
A 750 ml bottle pours 6 glasses of 125 ml. With a seated dinner, plan 1 glass of white and 1 of rosé per guest plus 1 bottle of red per 25 guests: 29 bottles for 75 guests.
How many bar staff do I need for 75 guests?
2 bartenders at the recommended level and 7 people in total, counting barbacks, runners and glass collectors plus 1 dinner runner for the seated service. The comfortable level for the same event is 8.
Plan your full bar: bottles, cocktails, shopping list.
The free calculator gives staff, ice and totals. Pro turns them into the exact order per product and one Excel your supplier can read.