Need Bartender Advice for an event
I am getting married in about a year and the food and the bar are probably the two most important things for my myself and my fiance.
I worked in the restaurant industry for years so I have a decent enough knowledge of cocktails, spirits, beer and wine etc but do not have really any experience behind the bar with service and that flow.
The venue is BYOB so I had planned to do as close to a full bar as possible and but also have 6-7 drinks on the cocktail "menu" (Negroni's, Last Words, etc) that I would pre batch a few days before the wedding and then have bartenders add citrus the morning of.
I thought having these drinks pre batched would speed up service since they would just have to pour a predetermined amount in a shaker or mixing beaker and be done. I hate waiting in line for 45 minutes for a single drink at weddings and thought this would speed things up.
If you were working a catering or off site event would you appreciate or want this set up? Any other things to consider to make service smoother/easier? Is 7 drinks too many? Is 3 bartenders (or 2 and a bar back) enough for 100 people? I wanted to get the opinions of some professionals here so let me know what you think.
(PS if you are in the mid/south NH area and want to make some money on June 2027, shoot me a DM)