Question about wine and how to serve it

View quoted message Yeah, we ended up doing that, leaving a bottle on each table for people to serve themselves.

Wines on the table make it easy foe ypur guests to help themselves rather than going to the bar. I had the bottle service dinner time. It would have been nice to leave the bottles if we were allowed to buy our wines.

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That does sound a lot easier.

We had a bottle of red and a bottle of white wine on each table and then at the head table we had two white, 1 red, and 2 bottles of champagne or something like that. It was easier that way in my opinion.

View quoted message Hahaha lmao!!!!

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Lol I already know who those people are.

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That is very true.

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I think that's a good idea and sends out the right vibe.

We will have 4 kinds of wine options; 2 reds and 2 whites
All our wine will be at the bar station and people will have to go over to refill. There will be no bartender so its kind of a free for all. And because there will be nobody monitoring the bar, if someone REALLY wants to they can just grab a bottle of whatever they want and take it back to the table (that person will probably be me... And my aunt... And my mother...).
The reason for not putting them on the tables is to try to limit the number of bottles opened at a time and to give the guests more choice on which wine they want to drink, so that we dont end up wasting a bunch at the end of the night. I don't get a refund for the unopened bottles, but i do get to keep them all haha.
We will def encourage guests to refill during speeches if they would like- we are going for a more informal vibe anyway. This is what my brother and sister in law did at their wedding and it worked well.

At our wedding, there will be 3 bottles of wine per table of 10. Since we have 3 tables of 8 and one of 6, they'll probably put 2 bottles on each table and one on the head table for my husband and I. We have an open bar people can get a drink whenever. Most people won't get a drink while the speeches are ongoing. They'll probably get it before or after speeches.

View quoted message We all have those friends and family members that will finish the bottles off by going to the other tables lol

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Nope, just 1 red and 1 white so I think you are right, someone will always drink the red and someone will always drink the white. And I KNOW some people will go around to the tables during the night at some point and steal other peoples almost empty bottles of wine. lol.

Are the tickets on the table? I understand the concept of this and the reason why, for our Stag and Doe we are running the bar and will be returning all unopened bottles of liquor and beer for a refund, I don't want to spend anymore then we have to. With your tables if one person wants white or red they still will go and get a bottle, so that is defeating the purpose of having the tickets I think, I may be completely wrong in my thinking but I've never seen a full table only drink red or white. Also are the tables allowed more then one bottle of white and red? I can see that being the savings there, your tables may drink 2 bottles of red and only need 1 white.

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That makes alot of sense. Thanks for the advise. I think we are just going to leave the wine in the tables.

Good morning,

We are doing one bottle of red and white wine on the tables. It is easier and one less thing for guests to worry about getting bottles of wine for table. We will give everyone a fifteen minute warning to get drinks before speeches begin. I only want speeches to be around 20 minutes long anyways so should not be a big deal. If you are not serving drinks during speeches please make sure cups are big enough for people to have enough alcohol to drink/toast to couple. Went to a wedding where bar was closed during speeches and cups were super tiny, I finished my drink in two sips.