When planning to serve liquor at your wedding, the most cost-effective way to do it is to incorporate a couple of signature cocktails. This option allows you to include cocktails into your wedding bar without a typical expense of hosting a full bar.
Another great thing about having signature cocktails is that it allows the wedding couple to personalize their wedding bar offering. All couples want their wedding to be unique, to reflect the couple’s personality and share their favorite drinks with the guests and this is a simple way to do that.
Typically, a wedding will offer two signature cocktails for the guests. Frequently, these drinks are referred to as “the Bride’s cocktail” and “the Groom’s cocktail” or “His” and “Hers.” In the case of same sex wedding, the couple’s names are substituted for “His and Hers” , which is recommended as the guests want to know which drink matches with which half of the couple.
More time than not, the signature cocktails are the only cocktails available at the wedding. You can certainly opt to have signature cocktails as part of a full bar offering, but guests would be less likely inclined to drink the signature cocktails if they have an option to get their favorite cocktail at the bar. can get anything they want at the bar.
If you have one, start with your favorite cocktail. Do you go to a bar and something you order every time? Are you know for drinking something specific? When you went out on your first date, was there a particular drink that reminds you of that time?
In the event you don’t have a favorite cocktail, do you have a favorite liquor? Certain people will drink Vodka but not Gin. Others are strictly tequila drinkers and yet another group drinks Bourbon. All of this to say once again; one of the main reasons to have signature a signature drink is to make your wedding exclusively yours.
It is preferable to have your cocktails made with different base liquor. We recommend one clear liquor like gin, white rum, or vodka and one brown liquor such as dark rum, bourbon, or whiskey. Very frequently the bride’s cocktail would be made with light liquor whereas groom’s drink will sport the darker liquor as a base. No-one says that you have to follow suit and comply with the norm. Mix it up, step out of the box, run with the scissors, and go swimming on a full stomach. Yes, have the brides cocktail made with Courvoisier VSOP. As you start thinking about you signature cocktails, consider the sweetness level of the drinks. If serving a bourbon cocktail or with Grand Marnier, which are both sweet, consider something more herbaceous and bitter as the counterpart. For example, an Old-Fashioned (sweet) and a Negroni (bitter).
Keep in mind the time of year. During the hot summer months, you’ll want your cocktails to be crisp and refreshing. We suggest: Mojito or Tom Collins. In the fall, you will ant to consider heavier cocktail such a an Old-Fashioned, Dark & Stormy, or Moscow Mule.
Your choice of cocktail should be simplicity. Cocktail with extravagant recipe will be difficult to make quickly by the bartenders. Pre-batched cocktails and drinks are always a good idea. Ask you wedding planner to assist you with the choices. That is why you hired an expert to be at your back and call and to guide you .
In case you wanted to limit your bar costs, but still have an offering with more options than just two cocktails. Choose two or three spirits like Vodka, Whiskey and Rum for instance, plus a variety of mixers such as soda water, ginger beer, cranberry juice, simple syrup, orange juice, and a few different fruit garnishes and let your guests loose.
The Old-Fashioned is the most popular signature cocktail of choice, no question. Typically it is the “groom’s” cocktail but if you would look back a few paragraph where we were daring you to be different and step out of the box…….. One of the most popular “brides ”cocktails is a Bellini. Prosecco & Peaches — That is Bellissimo
Other popular cocktail options : Cosmopolitan, Margarita, Manhattan, Moscow Mule, Dark & Stormy, and Greyhound
And, there you have it. You are now fully equipped to make one of the most important decisions for your Wedding !
Cheers !