Wedding alcohol
calculator.
A free wedding alcohol calculator. Feed in the guest count, the hours of service, and how the crowd drinks, leave with a shopping list of bottles and cases, rounded up so you never run dry.
- Method
- ≈1 drink/guest/hr
- Counts
- Wine · beer · spirits
- Time to result
- ~30 seconds
- Basis
- Standard pours
This reckoner runs as a live tool over the Aisle MCP. Connect it and your agent can call get_alcohol_estimate directly in ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor, same numbers as this page.
“How much alcohol should we buy for 120 guests over five hours?”
https://aisle.wedding/api/mcpHow to connect →Plan to pour about 400 drinks, roughly one per guest per hour, set to a average crowd. The shopping list below turns that into bottles and cases to buy.
The shopping list.
Wine-led · 80 guestsThe figure couples forget is not the alcohol, it is the ice and the glassware. Plan 1–1.5 lbs of ice per guest (half for drinks, half for chilling), and if the venue charges corkage, ask the number before you buy: at €15–25 a bottle it can quietly cost more than the wine itself. Many destinations also let you return unopened cases, so buy to the high end and reconcile after.
How much alcohol
for a wedding.
A quick reference for a five-hour reception, an average crowd, and a wine-led bar (60% wine, 25% beer, 15% spirits). Adjust the calculator above for your hours, crowd, and mix. Beer is counted in cases of 24; wine, spirits, and champagne in 750ml bottles.
| Guests | Wine | Beer | Spirits | Champagne (toast) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 guests | 30 bottles | 3 cases | 3 bottles | 9 bottles |
| 75 guests | 45 bottles | 4 cases | 4 bottles | 13 bottles |
| 100 guests | 60 bottles | 6 cases | 5 bottles | 17 bottles |
| 150 guests | 90 bottles | 8 cases | 7 bottles | 25 bottles |
| 200 guests | 120 bottles | 11 cases | 10 bottles | 34 bottles |
One 750ml wine bottle pours five glasses; one 750ml spirit bottle makes about sixteen 1.5oz cocktails; one champagne bottle fills six flutes. Add 1–1.5 lbs of ice per guest and two to three mixers per cocktail. Buy to the high end where unopened bottles can be returned.
Modeled from 5,962 venues.
Every number in these tools is a modeled estimate, researched per venue across the Aisle marketplace and currency-normalized, not a figure pulled from booked weddings. Treat them as planning ranges and confirm with the venue.
- Data source
- Marketplace cost research
- Last refresh
- June 2026, Q2
- Next refresh
- September 2026
- Basis
- Modeled estimate
- Sample size
- 5,962 venues analyzed
- Corrections
- hello@aisle.wedding