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Planning christening- beverage option question

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cantwait4baby
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Planning christening- beverage option question

We are having my DD's christening out at a restaurant. I have called around to many places in Suffolk county and some offer unlimited beer/wine/soda for 15pp and others pitcher of beer $18, pitcher of soda $10, carafe of wine $22 and punch bowl (sangria or champagne) $50. We are planning to invite 45 adults and 12 kids. Which beverage option is better?

Posted 7/2/13 1:25 PM
 
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alli3131
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Planning christening- beverage option question

Last time we did a party in a restaurant we did beer and wine and then ran a tab for hard alcohol.

Posted 7/2/13 1:42 PM
 

evenedan
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

Posted by alli3131

Last time we did a party in a restaurant we did beer and wine and then ran a tab for hard alcohol.



Same. We had unlimited bottled beer and wine and ran a tab for the hard stuff.

Posted 7/2/13 1:56 PM
 

ali120206
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

Posted by evenedan

Posted by alli3131

Last time we did a party in a restaurant we did beer and wine and then ran a tab for hard alcohol.



Same. We had unlimited bottled beer and wine and ran a tab for the hard stuff.



We did this too. If your crowd isn't full of big drinkers, you could even look into just running a tab - being that it's an afternoon party.

I'm not familiar with the other pricing you mentioned (and I worked for awhile in catering). Is it per pitcher/carafe?

Posted 7/2/13 2:04 PM
 

JDubs
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

we just did beer/wine/soda package.... if we ran a tab for hard liquor then it would be a huge bar bill since there are big drinkers in our families

Posted 7/2/13 2:10 PM
 

WannaBeAMom11
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Planning christening- beverage option question

We just did beer/wine/soda unlimited on sat. Worked out fine.

Posted 7/2/13 2:19 PM
 

JJN4
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

We ran a tab for everything. It worked out better for us.

Posted 7/2/13 2:41 PM
 

missfabulous
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Planning christening- beverage option question

We did unlimited beer, wine and soda. We have a big drinking family.

Posted 7/2/13 2:52 PM
 

Beach0805
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

We're having our christening party this month and are just going to run a tab.

Posted 7/2/13 3:47 PM
 

MrsO
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

It all depends if you have big drinkers or not in the family as a whole. We did a tab at one party and it was ridiculous.

Posted 7/2/13 3:48 PM
 

NervousNell
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

Posted by JDubs

we just did beer/wine/soda package.... if we ran a tab for hard liquor then it would be a huge bar bill since there are big drinkers in our families



Ditto.
We did the beer/wine/soda package.
If anyone wanted anything else they bought it themselves at the bar.

Posted 7/2/13 5:39 PM
 

Domino
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

We had 70 adults at DS' christening. We had seven tables in a restaurant. I bought a carafe of wine for each table. (7x$20) If anyone ordered anything additional I told the waitress to run a tab. My bar bill came to $290 (including the wine). It would have cost me $700 if I had had unlimited wine and beer ($10 pp) and $1050 if I had had unlimited beer/wine/liquor ($15 pp).

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Posted 7/2/13 8:40 PM
 

cantwait4baby
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Re: Planning christening- beverage option question

Thanks ladies!!!!

Posted 7/2/13 10:28 PM
 

Mrs213
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Planning christening- beverage option question

I would run a tab because you will still have to pay that amount for every person who doesn't drink (think kids, etc)

Posted 7/2/13 11:00 PM
 
 

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