Wedding Drink Calculator
Champagne for the toast, wine on the tables, cocktails until late. All of it counted for your exact guest list.
Wedding
A wedding bar is three bars in one day
A welcome reception on sparkling and light drinks. A seated dinner with wine on the tables and a runner per 25 guests keeping glasses full. Then a party on cocktails, spirits and beer until late. Consumption runs higher than a normal party in the first hours, and it runs a lot longer.
PourBrief carries wedding consumption modifiers, puts the dinner service on top of the bar team, and splits your wine into red, white, rosé and sparkling, so the toast never ends up as the thing you forgot. For 100 guests over 5–6 hours a professional bar plans roughly 1,600–2,000 serves. You get that back as bottles, cases, ice by weight and one shopping list you can hand to your caterer or take to the store.
Frequently asked questions
How much alcohol do I need for a wedding of 100 guests?
Over 5–6 hours a professional bar plans roughly 1,600–2,000 serves, above a normal party because the day opens with a reception and runs long. PourBrief splits that total across sparkling, wine, beer, spirits and cocktails, and hands back the exact bottles.
How much wine do I need for a wedding dinner?
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: about 38 bottles for 100 wedding guests.
How much champagne do I need for the toast?
One glass per guest, and a 750 ml bottle pours about 6, so around 17 bottles for 100 guests. If you pour sparkling through the reception instead of one toast, plan half that per guest and let the bar pour on demand.
Do I need extra staff for a seated dinner?
Yes, on top of the bar team. A seated service needs runners keeping glasses full, roughly one per 25 guests on a mid-size dinner, easing to about one per 60 at large events. Mark the seated dinner and the calculator adds them.
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