the venue that i have pick want to charge £7 per person and £3 for orange for the kids which works out quite expensive, so i asked about bring my own and they want £10 a bottle to cork it, but what if i buy screw caps
CommentAuthorMrs (Dove) Pidgeon
Doesn't work like that- its to cover their losses for not selling drink, not to actually take the cork out. What does the £7 cover?
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CommentAuthor~*~ Becca ~*~
i dont actually think it needs to be "corked" all the time before they charge..i think its just a general name for a charge for someone bringing their own drink!!!
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CommentAuthorcatch
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all venues need to charge corkage hunni, as it is there personal licence and there business is selling drink!!, we are paying 10.50 for three drinks per head which is rather reasonable, when you concider that you get 3 drinks per bottle the £10 charge is equivilant to 3 glass sale to them plus you are paying for the bottle yourself so that would work out expensive depending on what you want to give your guests given the average drink is approx£4, but a good deal if its champagne you are offeringxx, now that's a cheaper option if you only want a toast or a welcome drink our kids are £4.95 for three drinks which l think is good pretty average, you can give out a small miniture 3 for £5 from asda as a favour gift, your guests are not suppose to drink them on the premises, but then you can't control every guest, if you get my drift ;-) xx
CommentAuthorclaire1984
Basically they do it, so you buy the drinks off them and dont take your own - cause every venue knows that nobody is going to pay 10 plus the cost of the bottle to take in - unless you make your own wine. x
we're just payin for bottles of wine and stickin them on the table from the veneu itself x
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CommentAuthorshelly
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thankyou all, made it a bit clearier for me what to do, Dove i was paying £7 for a drink when the geust to come in and for the toast, mind you atleat if i let them supply it i haven't got to worry about if i have enough bottles and i could do with out the added cost of buying to wine from a shop what a durbrain i am only just thought about that lol
CommentAuthorSuzi
That's not bad hun, I am paying £35 per person for a 3 course meal, drink on arrival, drink for the toast and half a bottle of wine per person...
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CommentAuthorEriksfjord
Shelly best idea is to talk to them and see what they can do. Our drinks are included in our meal package but at my previous venue we were going to buy bottles of wine to put on the tables as it worked out cheaper!
CommentAuthorMrscarter2b
We're going to buy our own and pay for the corkage. our drinks package is 18.50 per head for arrival drink, two glasses of wine with the meal and then fizzy for the toast. Even though we'll be paying 10 per bottle for corkage, it'll either work out cheaper or our guests will get more for the price we would have been paying. We're having M&S pink fizzy and will buy it when they do 3 for 2 and we're going to do 3 for £10 deals. We're also giving miniature vodka and JD in our favors. Quite a number of our friends have done it this way and I estimate we'll be saving about £200. Hope that helps xx
CommentAuthorshelly
thanks for all the help
CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
we are not having the drinks package, the venue we had before had there own bar so we were going to put on the info card not to forget their purses for drinks (but put better). Now its in disney were still not having it for the party lol.
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CommentAuthorMrsEminson2B
We are paying £4.95 per head for champagne while photos are been taken then £11.95 for a drinks package which is a glass of Pimms on arrival a glass of wine for the meal and a glass of sparkling wine for the toast XX
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CommentAuthor'ca'ca'ca
Good luck figuring it all out; maybe cause it's two in the morning, but that makes no sence to me at all, will have to re-read when more awake to be able to give better advice!! sorry! <3 x
CommentAuthorstacey
were getting bucks fizz, house wine and champagne toast for £13 ph never understood this corkage thing i think it's just a ploy to make weddings even more expensive :-)xxx
