Calculate how much beer, wine, liquor, hard seltzer, champagne, mixers, and ice to buy for a wedding. Free, private, and no signup.
Enter per-unit prices in US dollars to estimate the alcohol subtotal.
Total planned drinks
528
For 80 expected drinkers over 5.0 hours, excluding the optional toast.
About 6.0 drinks per drinking guest before the extra stock buffer.
Beer
185
bottles or cans, about 8 cases of 24
35% of the bar mix
Wine
32 bottles
158 glasses at 5 glasses per 750 mL bottle
30% of the bar mix
Liquor
8 bottles
132 standard 1.5 oz pours from 750 mL (fifth)
25% of the bar mix
Hard seltzer
53 cans
about 5 packs of 12
10% of the bar mix
Toast and bar supplies
Champagne
14 bottles
Mixers
12 two-liter bottles
Ice
120 lb
Estimated alcohol subtotal
Add your local prices to calculate a budget estimate.
Planning note
This is a purchase estimate, not a serving target. Adjust it for guest preferences, nonalcoholic options, venue rules, and local law. Use a licensed or experienced bartender when appropriate, never serve minors, and stop service to anyone who appears intoxicated.
Every calculation runs in your browser. Guest counts, prices, and preferences are never uploaded or stored.
The Wedding Alcohol Calculator is one of Intellure's free tools for estimating how much alcohol to buy for a wedding reception without relying on a vague case-count rule. Enter the adult guest count, reception length, expected drinking percentage, serving pace, and preferred bar mix to get a practical wedding drink calculator for beer, wine, liquor, hard seltzer, champagne, mixers, and ice. Built for US weddings, it uses familiar 750 mL wine bottles, fifths, handles, standard pours, cases, and packs, with optional local prices for a wedding alcohol cost estimate. Every calculation runs privately in your browser with no signup, upload, or saved guest data. If you plan weddings, run a venue, cater events, or operate a mobile bar, Intellure's managed AI employee can handle customer questions, sales and marketing conversations, lead follow-up, and consultation bookings while this free wedding bar alcohol calculator handles the purchase plan.
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