weirdiscomplimentary
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My fiance and I are having a morning ceremony and an evening reception and guests are free to explore town on their own in the afternoon. After the ceremony, we are going to have light sandwiches and beverages before people leave for the afternoon. We are worried about beverage service, though. My thought had been that we would just put out plastic cups and cartons of iced tea and lemonade and pitchers of water. But my fiance and his parents think that this will slow down the line too much and that we should do cans or small bottles of water so that people don't have to pour themselves a drink.
Here are the pros and cons, to my knowledge:
People can just grab a bottle or can and keep the line moving.
Bottles/Cans are harder to transport and to keep cool in advance because they are bulkier, whereas jugs are easier to keep cool and we can have ice for people to put in their drinks.
We could do large Coleman drink coolers of lemonade and iced tea -- that way people could just stick their cup under and press the button rather than having to pick up the container and pour.....but on the other hand we would only be able to have like 2 of them, which would slow things down even more.
My fiance's mom said that if we had someone there filling up the glasses, then it would move things more quickly because people could just take a cup and go....but then we'd have to ask one of our guests to be in charge of that, which seems like too much to ask for, given that they're already helping in so many other ways. I wouldn't mind doing it myself, but then people would get all upset because I need to be mingling with the elderly guests who can't come to the evening reception.
What do you think? Has anyone done this before? For 125 guests how long does this kind of thing typically take? What's the best way to handle beverage service?
Here are the pros and cons, to my knowledge:
People can just grab a bottle or can and keep the line moving.
Bottles/Cans are harder to transport and to keep cool in advance because they are bulkier, whereas jugs are easier to keep cool and we can have ice for people to put in their drinks.
We could do large Coleman drink coolers of lemonade and iced tea -- that way people could just stick their cup under and press the button rather than having to pick up the container and pour.....but on the other hand we would only be able to have like 2 of them, which would slow things down even more.
My fiance's mom said that if we had someone there filling up the glasses, then it would move things more quickly because people could just take a cup and go....but then we'd have to ask one of our guests to be in charge of that, which seems like too much to ask for, given that they're already helping in so many other ways. I wouldn't mind doing it myself, but then people would get all upset because I need to be mingling with the elderly guests who can't come to the evening reception.
What do you think? Has anyone done this before? For 125 guests how long does this kind of thing typically take? What's the best way to handle beverage service?