BYOB Wedding Alcohol & Ice Calculator
How much beer, wine, liquor and ice to buy for your wedding — vendor-standard consumption math, not guesswork, with return-policy math for what you don't pour.
- No email, no lead capture for liquor stores — quantities only, priced with your numbers.
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≈ $4.10 per drinking guest · standard for this session length
Where the numbers come from
Industry planning standard: each drinking guest consumes one drink per hour of a standard session, tapered to 2 for this session length. With a full bar, drinks split roughly 50% beer / 35% wine / 15% liquor; beer-and-wine-only events shift to 60/40. A standard wine bottle pours five 5-oz glasses; a 750 ml liquor bottle yields ~16 mixed drinks at 1.5 oz pours.
Ice: 1.5 lb per guest covers chilling bottles plus glass service at an indoor event; outdoor summer weddings run 2+ lb. Keg math (1/2 barrel = 165 twelve-oz beers) beats case pricing past ~160 guests if your venue allows it.
What people hate about the other tools
We read the reviews of the incumbents before writing this page. Every complaint below maps to a decision in the tool above.
Our venue's BYOB calculator assumed every guest drinks 4 drinks and we bought $900 of returnable beer we couldn't return
In this toolSession-length profiles (1.5-3 drinks) and a buffer sized to return policies, not fear.
One-line difference: Vendor-standard consumption math (session-length drinks per guest, 50/35/15 splits) plus the return-policy buffer that beverage calculators skip.
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- Drinks, bottles, cases and ice by session and bar style
- Cost per drinking guest with your actual bottle prices
- Keg-vs-case breakpoint and returnable +20% buffer guidance
Pro $9 once
- Printable shopping list with store-ready quantities & substitutions
- Signature-cocktail batch scaling with ABV-based consumption taper
- Multi-event series (rehearsal + wedding + brunch) combined buying plan
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