Wedding Alcohol & Wine in Singapore

How Much Alcohol Do You Need for Your Wedding Dinner?

Planning a wedding dinner involves more than choosing the venue, menu and guest list. If you intend to purchase your own wine, whisky, beer or spirits for your wedding banquet, planning early can help you control costs and avoid running short on the night itself.

At King’s Bar Singapore, we supply authentic wines, whiskies, beers, champagne and premium spirits for weddings, solemnisation dinners and other celebrations. Our team can also help you estimate how much alcohol you may need based on your guest count, drinking profile and banquet arrangement.

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1. Check Your Hotel or Wedding Venue Corkage Policy First

Before purchasing any alcohol, contact your hotel, restaurant or wedding venue and ask about its corkage policy.

Important questions include:

• Is outside wine or alcohol permitted?
• What is the corkage fee per bottle?
• Is corkage charged differently for wine, champagne and spirits?
• Does your wedding package include any corkage waiver?
• How many bottles can you bring in without corkage?
• Are beer cans or bottles permitted?
• Can unopened bottles be taken home after the wedding?
• When must the alcohol be delivered to the venue?

Some wedding packages may already include house wine or complimentary corkage for a certain number of bottles. Always calculate the total cost of buying your own alcohol + corkage before deciding.

A Simple Example

If you purchase a bottle of wine for $30 but the hotel charges $35 corkage, your actual cost becomes approximately $65 per bottle.

In this situation, compare the final cost against the hotel's wine package rather than looking only at the bottle price.

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2. Confirm Your Number of Guests

Start with your expected attendance.

For example:

30 tables × 10 guests = 300 guests

However, you should not automatically calculate alcohol for all 300 guests.

Consider:

• Children
• Elderly guests
• Guests who do not drink
• Guests who prefer beer
• Guests who drink wine
• Guests who prefer whisky or spirits
• Guests who may leave early

Your drinking guest count is more useful than your total attendance.

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3. How Much Wine Do You Need for a Wedding?

A standard 750ml bottle of wine provides approximately 5 glasses when each serving is around 150ml.

A useful starting assumption for a wedding dinner is:

2 glasses of wine per wine-drinking guest.

That means:

1 person = approximately 300ml

Since one bottle contains 750ml:

1 bottle serves approximately 2.5 guests at 2 glasses each.

Easy Rule of Thumb

For every 10 wine-drinking guests, prepare approximately:

4 bottles of wine

So if every guest at a 10-person table drinks wine:

10 guests × 2 glasses = 20 glasses

20 glasses ÷ approximately 5 glasses per bottle =

4 bottles per table

This is only a starting point. Your actual requirement may be lower if beer, whisky or other drinks are also being served.

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Wedding Wine Calculator

This calculation assumes approximately 2 glasses per guest and about 5 glasses from each 750ml bottle.

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4. Don't Assume Every Guest Drinks Wine

This is one of the easiest ways to overbuy.

Suppose your wedding has:

300 guests

But you estimate:

• 60% will drink alcohol
• 60% of those drink wine

Your estimated wine drinkers would be:

300 × 60% × 60% = 108 wine drinkers

At two glasses each:

108 × 2 = 216 glasses

216 ÷ 5 ≈ 44 bottles

Add approximately a 10–15% safety buffer, and you might prepare around:

48–50 bottles of wine

That is very different from buying 4 bottles × 30 tables = 120 bottles.

The guest profile therefore matters significantly.

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5. Consider Beer, Whisky and Other Spirits

At many Singapore wedding dinners, guests don't drink only wine.

You may have a mixture of:

Wine + Beer + Whisky

or

Wine + Champagne + Whisky + Beer

If whisky will be served later in the evening, wine consumption may decrease.

A wedding with many younger guests may also consume more beer, while some family-oriented banquets may have heavier whisky consumption.

There is therefore no single perfect formula.

The best estimate depends on your guests.

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6. Red Wine or White Wine?

For a typical Chinese wedding banquet, many couples choose more red wine than white.

A possible starting ratio is:

70% Red Wine / 30% White Wine

For example, if you require 50 bottles:

• 35 bottles red wine
• 15 bottles white wine

However, this should change depending on your menu and guests.

Seafood-heavy menus may justify more white wine, while guests who traditionally prefer red wine may require a higher red-wine allocation.

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7. Add a Small Safety Buffer

Running out of alcohol halfway through your wedding dinner is difficult to fix.

Instead of purchasing exactly your calculated quantity, consider adding approximately:

10–15% additional stock

For example:

Calculated requirement: 50 bottles

10% buffer: 5 bottles

Recommended preparation:

55 bottles

You do not necessarily need a huge excess. The objective is simply to protect against slightly higher-than-expected consumption.

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8. Ask Your Venue About Unopened Bottles

This is particularly important when planning your buffer.

Ask whether unopened bottles can be:

• collected after the wedding;
• stored temporarily by the venue; or
• returned to you after the event.

King’s Bar purchases are generally non-refundable, so we recommend confirming your quantities and requirements carefully before placing a bulk wedding order.

If you are unsure, speak with our team before purchasing.

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9. Check Bottle Vintage and Specific Requirements

If you require a particular wine vintage, packaging, gift box or bottle design, let us know before ordering.

Wine vintages may vary depending on the vineyard's current release and available stock.

For wedding orders where you require all bottles to have a particular vintage or presentation, we recommend confirming this with our team in advance.

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10. Plan Your Wedding Alcohol Early

Avoid leaving your alcohol order until the final few days before your wedding.

Ideally, start planning once you know:

• your confirmed venue;
• approximate guest count;
• number of tables;
• corkage arrangement;
• alcohol provided by the hotel;
• drinking profile of your guests; and
• wedding date.

For larger wedding orders, planning early also gives you more time to secure sufficient stock of the same wine.

A practical timeline

1–3 months before:
Confirm venue corkage and start comparing alcohol options.

3–4 weeks before:
Estimate drinking attendance and shortlist your wine, beer and spirits.

1–2 weeks before:
Confirm guest numbers and finalise quantities.

Before the wedding:
Confirm the delivery date, delivery location and receiving arrangements with your hotel or venue.

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Buying Wedding Alcohol in Singapore

Purchasing your own alcohol can give you considerably more choice than relying only on a banquet package.

At King’s Bar, you can choose from a wide range of:

• Red Wine
• White Wine
• Champagne
• Prosecco & Sparkling Wine
• Scotch Whisky
• Japanese Whisky
• Cognac
• Gin
• Vodka
• Tequila
• Beer
• Sake
• Premium Spirits

Whether you need 20 bottles for an intimate wedding or a larger bulk alcohol order for hundreds of guests, our team can help you work through your requirements.

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Need Help Calculating Your Wedding Alcohol?

Send us:

1. Wedding date
2. Hotel or venue
3. Number of tables
4. Guests per table
5. Estimated number of drinkers
6. Whether the hotel provides wine or beer
7. Corkage allowance
8. Your approximate budget per bottle
9. Whether you need wine, whisky, beer, champagne or a combination

We can then recommend a more practical quantity and selection for your wedding.

Contact King’s Bar

KINGSBAR PTE. LTD.

Phone: +65 8959 3700
Email: sales@kingsbar.com.sg
General Enquiries: hello@kingsbar.com.sg

Good Drinks. Greater Moments.