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200 total adults? How many are women? They as a rule are fewer beer drinkers, and those that do, drink less than men on average.

50-60 gallons of beer total, other liquors on top of that.

Osky

Then again, it is Wisconsin.

I think you haves good plan. You know your AO.

Probably the most important thing is to not run out.

Venue serves - we just buy the beer.

I like Miller high life

2 kegs and a couple in reserve just in case.

And talk to your homeowners insurance and buy one day of "event insurance". Relatively cheap for peace of mind.

I will admit to not consulting Vogue magazine for anything over the last 41 years!

Haha!


Are you guys not big liquor drinkers up there?

You couldn't hardly give beer away at my wedding.

lol, I'd drink a couple of gallons.

Lite for most will be fine IMHO

I wanted soooo badly to be able to do the beer truck deal at our sons wedding.
But seeing that he was marrying a PH preachers daughter and said PH preacher was conducting the service on PHP's farm I had no say.
They were married on a ramp into a 100 year old barn with a pasture[kept cows off for 5-6 months] and that beer truck would have been .......
I did have a cooler full in my truck!

But hey, the rehearsal dinner was relatively cheap as it was held at a no-alcohol restaurant, think it ran me about $1,200

I gave a very brief[like two lines] send off as I'm not a public speaker in the least[son, DIL and I discussed and they were fine and knew].

Hope yours goes off without a hitch like ours did Teal.

So would I.

Grandma is only gonna have a glass and a half though.

WI consumes more brandy than most. Last I saw, WI alone consumed 1/2 of Korbel's brandy sales world wide. (2019)

Old Fashioneds are our blood type - we're just not doing it for the wedding because of expediency. I won't have a 1/2 assed OF and to ask the venue to stack people up to make em? meh, not fair.

200 guests? 300 guests? For a wedding?

As protocol demands each guest brings a nice wedding gift, sounds like inviting large numbers of guests is a good way for the bride and groom to accumulate a lot of free loot. You know; lots of blenders, toasters, Corning wear, coffee pots, etc., etc.

Just my thoughts. (Don't blame me: I'm just an old, jaded curmudgeon.

L.W.

If this is a Yoop/Wisco reception you might want to have the ability to make an Old Fashioned or 100. I like the Spotted Cow idea for a craft beer.

That's considered a small wedding here. Small towns, everyone knows everyone. Easy to hit 200 these days with divorce families. You got step-families on both sides.

Biggest wedding I ever went to - 900 invites went out, 1200 rsvp'd as coming back. It's more common these days to also invite those to the reception, not the meal/ceremony. Reception invites - no gift expectation.

My son has me/my family. His mom and her family and his military friends. Daughter-in-law has 2 parent families as well and their combined mutual friends.

200 isn't hard to hit.


IIRC - I had 260 at my wedding, I cleared 600 in cash and a bunch of chit I've not seen since. House crap.

All three of my sons are now married off, three rehearsal dinners and miscellaneous expenses covered thankfully, can't imagine if I had a daughter and had to pay for a wedding. My niece is getting married in Park City UT this month and it's costing me over a grand just to participate and there's three more to go!!!

As for beer, when I drink it, it's always a Lager. In a brewery or place I don't typically frequent, when in doubt, a Lager fills the bill.

A keg of beer that did not go woke. Yuenglang

The last wedding I went to had a open bar🤯

It only tastes good compared to mass market beers tho.

I don't mind, they're good for one another and I can - so I am. He didn't ask, I offered once he told me he was getting married.

Yuenglang light does a good job. served it at a college graduation.

I was at a wedding recently in WI and they had Bells two hearted ale on tap and we finished the keg. That's my recommendation.

Spotted cow, New Glarus is a good option but it's sort of sweet. My best man had his family get a keg of it and bring it to his wedding in Utah (yeah, I know, that's illegal). Anyway, after a pitcher of spotted cow it becomes a bit too sweet.