Ideas for Signature Cocktails Wedding Guests Will Love

One of the more personalized ways to put your own stamp on your wedding reception is to serve signature cocktails that reflect your wedding theme or mood, or makes a statement about your style as a couple. This is one of the hottest style trends for wedding receptions.  Its a another way to make your wedding more memorable and really help to make it your own.  Your wedding guests will be so impressed!

Have some fun with the various flavors and colors of the drink. One option is to customize your signature cocktails to match your wedding colors.

Signature Cocktails for wedding receptions began as a high-end wedding trend, all in the name of style. Couples offer guests a signature cocktail, in addition to having a full open bar. However…

Here’s an insider’s tip used by the savviest of pro wedding planners: Signature cocktails can actually be used to reduce your bar bill and help you save money on your wedding reception.

Here’s how:

Instead of offering a full open bar, serve your own signature cocktails along with a selection of non-alcoholic beverages. If you want, you could even offer your guests a choice from two different signature cocktails for a little variety. Experience shows that bar consumption actually goes way down with this approach, and that means a much lower bar bill.

You get to hold your head high as a proper and gracious host, your reception has class and style, and you save money in the process. This is a MUCH better option that going the cash bar route.  Unlike the cash bar alternative, this is considered perfectly proper, a show of good manners towards your guests (guests should never have to pay for anything at a wedding), and is very much in keeping with the rules of wedding etiquette.

Another idea: If you are having a DIY Wedding, or need to be creative with your budget, you can forgo the expense of a bartender and have a serve-yourself bar with premixed signature cocktails that guests pour for themselves from pitchers on a drink table ( new spin on the old punch-bowl).

Need signature cocktail ideas for your wedding?

One way to come up with ideas is to build a signature cocktail around your favorite spirit (what do you like to drink – vodka, rum, gin….).

Or look for cocktails that complement your wedding colors.

Be sure to also offer an nonalcoholic, or “mocktail” version for those who prefer not to imbibe.

In this post we’ve got some specific suggestions and ideas for signature cocktails that are perfect for weddings. Browse these ideas for signature cocktails to find one that’s perfect for your reception.

Signature Cocktail: Wedding Cupcake Martini

How to Make a “Cupcake Martini” Signature Cocktail

Start with two dessert plates and spread a thin layer of frosting onto one plate and colorful pastel candy sprinkles onto another. We colored the frosting pink to match the color of our drinks.

• Dip your martini glass rim into the frosting and slightly twist covering the rim with the frosting. Then roll the rim into the sprinkles and set aside.
• In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine 1 oz. cake vodka, 1 oz. white chocolate liqueur and  2 ounces of half and half. For a lighter version of the drink you can use coconut milk or 2% milk.
• If you want to have a colorful pastel drink, add a few drops of food coloring of your choice. Be sure and test the color into a small cup before pouring it all into your glass. Shake and strain into your prepared martini glass.
  

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  Signature Cocktail: Jazz Soirée

   

The Jazz Soiree is a perfect choice as a signature cocktail at a wedding with a jazz theme, or where jazz music is featured.  This could also be a great signature cocktail wedding drink at a reception with a pink or peach color scheme – or for the couple who is known to love their peach vodka!

Recipe:

Summer Wedding Cocktails

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Blackberry Whiskey Lemonade