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Wedding Drink Calculator
Plan alcoholic and nonalcoholic servings for a wedding or event.
Quick answer
Alcoholic servings come from drinking guests, event hours and your entered rate. The drink mix is normalized, bottles are rounded up, and nonalcoholic servings are calculated for all guests.
- Best for
- Creating an editable first-pass beverage plan for a wedding or event with known attendance and duration.
- Not for
- Encouraging consumption, checking legal compliance, selecting responsible service limits or replacing venue advice.
Formula and assumptions
Alcoholic servings = drinking guests × hours × entered rate. Mix shares are normalized. Beer servings round up. Wine uses a fixed planning assumption of 5 servings per bottle. Spirits use a fixed planning assumption of 16 pours per bottle. Nonalcoholic servings use all guests.
Actual alcohol content, serving sizes and container sizes vary. Check labels, local law and venue rules.
Plan responsibly. Local laws and venue rules take priority.
Worked example
Wedding Drink Calculator
Inputs
- Guests
- 100
- Non drinkers
- 20
- Event length
- 5 h
- Drinks per hour
- 1
- Beer share
- 45 %
- Wine share
- 35 %
- Spirit share
- 20 %
- Nonalcoholic drinks per hour
- 0.5
Live result
- Drinking guests
- 80
- Alcoholic servings
- 400
- Beer servings
- 180
- Wine bottles
- 28
FAQ
Questions this calculator answers
Are nonalcoholic drinks calculated for every guest?
Yes. The nonalcoholic estimate uses all guests, including guests also counted in the alcoholic drink plan. Adjust its hourly rate to reflect water and other beverages supplied separately.
What happens if beer, wine and spirit shares do not total 100 percent?
The calculator normalizes any positive shares into a complete mix before allocating servings. If every share is zero, it asks for at least one positive value instead of producing a false result.
Why does the formula use 5 wine servings and 16 spirit pours per bottle?
Those are fixed planning assumptions used by this calculator before rounding to whole bottles. Actual bottle sizes, pours and alcohol content vary, so edit the plan outside the calculator when your venue or product labels specify different servings.
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