What We Bought For Alcohol

One of the trickiest things we had to do in regards with our wedding was figure out how much alcohol we needed to buy. While there are plenty of alcohol calculators out there, we still were left wondering if the numbers they gave us made sense for our group (around 100 people, mostly adults, with 30-25% being heavy drinkers).

Thankfully we had a pair of friends get married in June who also had to buy their booze. While their numbers and crowd make-up was a bit different than ours, we used their quantities to figure out what we needed.

Still, we didn’t quite get it right. Here’s how things broke down for us:

Wine

Bought

• Three cases of red (all Shyrah)
• Three cases of white (two Chardonnay, one pinot grigio)

Returned

• One case of red
• One case of white (the pinot was never opened)

Leftover (includes opened, combined bottles):

• At least a dozen bottles of red (this included opened, combined bottles)
• Fewer than 10 bottles of white

Beer

Bought

• 14 cases

Returned

• 7 cases

Hard Alcohol

Bought

• 5 bottles of vodka (40 oz)
• 5 bottles of rye (fifth)
• 3 bottles of gin (fifth)
• 2 bottles of dark rum (40 oz)
• 1 bottle of light rum (40 oz)
• 2 bottles of Raspberry Sourpuss (40 oz)
• 1 bottle of Raspberry Sourpuss (fifth)
• 2 bottles of tequila (40 oz)
• 2 bottles of blue cucacao (fifth)
• 2 bottles of Jagermeister (40 oz)
• 1 bottle of scotch (40 oz)
• 1 bottles of Kahlua (40 oz)

Also, one 24-mix pack of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, all of which was consumed

Returned

• 1 bottle of vodka
• The fifth of Sourpuss

Leftover

• Most of the scotch
• Half-bottle of tequila
• Half-bottle of light rum
• A third of gin
• Just a few ounces each of vodka, rye, blue cucacao and Sourpuss
• Oh, and the entire bottle of Kahlua that we couldn’t return because the seal had been broken

The leftover wine number didn’t shock me but the beer number did. I think the reason for that was that all of our beer came from Mill Street and I guess our crowd wasn’t big on Mill Street (though Shawn and a few of his friends do regularly drink it).

We were though pretty dead-on when it came to the hard alcohol. Except for the Kahlua; I wonder why no one drank any of that…