At a wedding, what would YOU prefer?


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Getting wed in July (at the SoL as it happens). Just working out the cost of putting wine on the tables: 36 bottles will give each guest 2 glasses each (though many will not drink wine, kids for example) so more like 3 glasses each. I work at M&S and currently you save 25% when you buy 6 bottles, plus I get a further 20% off. 36 bottles will cost £118.80, but then we'd have to pay £15 corkage per bottle :eek: (which is still cheaper than going for their drinks packages) bumping the total cost of providing wine to £658.80, more or less £7.30 per guest. So I'm thinking it may be a good idea to put the money behind the bar and offer everyone 2 drinks of their choice (or even just one drink and save a few quid :oops::lol:)

So, would you prefer, as a guest, to have wine on the tables, or to have a drink or two of your choice from behind the bar?

Sad but true when it comes to "free bar":

1 - Who will control the 2 drink limit?
2 - People will order trebles, or the most expensive thing they can get


* Not everyone mind, but some certainly will. Seen it before many times.



I'm also getting married this summer, and the "drinks package" alone is f***ing disgracefully expensive. :evil:
 
We are doing a glass of bucks fizz on arrival, glass of wine at table and some fizzy for the toasts.

Were gonna do two glasses at the table but the venue charges per guest not per bottle and there are two many non-wine drinkers to buy everyone a second glass at over four quid per glass.
 
i agree that £15 quid corkage sounds silly,,, take ina bottle a table and pay the corkage and just smuggle the rest in wrapped as presents ;)

We had a long think about having mini bottles of wine as "favours" - free glass of wine for everyone ;)
 
Don't get married, your generation are so full of mercenaries that it's become the quickest way for a man to hit skid row. It hasn't happened to me but it has to both of my sons, it's the surest way into poverty (after the divorce). Stay single and kick them out for while every few months. I'm not normally a cynical person but I've seen the worst. One of my son will be free when he is sixty, get half, don't be silly, she buys new cars and lives in clover thanks to him, he walks. Take a tip.
 
Getting wed in July (at the SoL as it happens). Just working out the cost of putting wine on the tables: 36 bottles will give each guest 2 glasses each (though many will not drink wine, kids for example) so more like 3 glasses each. I work at M&S and currently you save 25% when you buy 6 bottles, plus I get a further 20% off. 36 bottles will cost £118.80, but then we'd have to pay £15 corkage per bottle :eek: (which is still cheaper than going for their drinks packages) bumping the total cost of providing wine to £658.80, more or less £7.30 per guest. So I'm thinking it may be a good idea to put the money behind the bar and offer everyone 2 drinks of their choice (or even just one drink and save a few quid :oops::lol:)

So, would you prefer, as a guest, to have wine on the tables, or to have a drink or two of your choice from behind the bar?

That must be wrong.

You can get a bottle of Château Bauduc, Bordeaux blanc, France 2009 - for £24 at Gordon ramsay's at Claridges. I'm sure it's cheap plonk but it's bleeding claridges.

http://www.gordonramsay.com/claridges/chefstable/winelisthighlights/
 
Don't get married, your generation are so full of mercenaries that it's become the quickest way for a man to hit skid row. It hasn't happened to me but it has to both of my sons, it's the surest way into poverty (after the divorce). Stay single and kick them out for while every few months. I'm not normally a cynical person but I've seen the worst. One of my son will be free when he is sixty, get half, don't be silly, she buys new cars and lives in clover thanks to him, he walks. Take a tip.

thats the spirit:confused:
 
When I got married they wanted 5 euros corkage and I said that was too much. Paid 2 euros in the end.

I thinkfiver a bottle is reasonable...

£15 is jsut silly.

I'd be arguing with them. I'm certain they have flexibility on pricing soemwhere.

Offer £8 a bottle on the proviso you'll supply more bottles... that way it'll cost you the same but at least your guests will get more booze
 
I thinkfiver a bottle is reasonable...

£15 is jsut silly.

I'd be arguing with them. I'm certain they have flexibility on pricing soemwhere.

Offer £8 a bottle on the proviso you'll supply more bottles... that way it'll cost you the same but at least your guests will get more booze

Yeah it wasn't too bad but could still negotiate it down. There was 145 bottles being supplied like.

Paid 5 euros a go for the daft seat back things though.
 
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