Are you looking for a signature cocktail for your wedding? We have selected 11 popular wedding cocktails for you to try out. Feel free to see which one is to your liking and feel free to customise it to suit your taste. While not important it is great to find a cocktail that not only tastes great but also one that matches the style and theme of your wedding. For example if you have a Gatsby themed wedding you may want a classic vodka martini. If you are having a beach wedding then a then a Mojito is more of what you need.
Handy Tips For Wedding Cocktails
A handy hint is that 30ml is equivalent to one small shot glass. So if you see 30ml its roughly one shot, 15ml half a shot and so on. So get ready for a fun weekend at home to try out these delicious wedding cocktails. Invite some friends around as it makes “experimenting” more fun.
Traditional Champagne Cocktail
3 drops bitters
1 sugar cube
30ml Cognac
120 ml chilled Champagne
Drop bitters onto a sugar cube, let the bitters soak into the sugar cube.
Place the sugar cube into a Champagne flute.
Add the Cognac
Top with Champagne.
Classic Vodka Martini
15 ml Dry Vermouth
60 ml vodka
Handful of ice
Pour a small amount of dry vermouth in a chilled martini glass and swirl to coat the inside of the glass.
Dispose of excess vermouth
In a shaker full of ice, swirl or stir the vodka and dry vermouth
Strain into glass
Serving suggestion: Garnish with olives or a lemon twist.
Long Island Iced Tea
15 ml vodka
15 ml rum
30 ml sweet and sour mix
15 ml gin
15 ml tequila
30 ml cola, or to taste
15 ml orange-flavoured liqueur
1 lemon slice
Pour a small amount of dry vermouth in a chilled martini glass and swirl to coat the inside of the glass.
Dispose of excess vermouth
In a shaker full of ice, swirl or stir the vodka, rum, sweet and sour mix, gin, tequila, orange liqueur and cola
Strain into glass
Serving suggestion: Garnish with olives or a lemon twist.
Manhattan
60 ml Rye Whiskey
30 ml Italian vermouth
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 Cocktail Glass
Maraschino Cherry
Stir the whiskey, vermouth and bitters with cracked ice.
Strain into in a chilled cocktail glass
Garnish with twist or add a maraschino cherry. If you buy them in a jar just drain the syrup
Mojito
25 ml sugar syrup
30 ml Lime Juice
2 mint sprigs
60 ml sparkling water
60 ml rum
4 ice cubes
Tall Glass
Add the sugar syrup, lime juice, mint sprigs and sparkling water into tall glass. Add lime wedges for decoration
Muddle gently, use a small pestle to smush the ingredients gently.
Add ice cubes and pour the rum on top
Stir well
Cosmopolitan
45ml vodka
30ml sour mix
30ml cranberry juice
15ml cointreau
Lemon or Lime twist (garnish)
Fill martini glass with ice to chill the put to one side.
Pour the vodka, sour mix, cranberry juice, Cointreau into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well.
Tip out the ice from martini glass.
Strain drink into glass and garnish with lemon or lime twist.
Margarita
60 ml tequila
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml lime juice
Salt for garnish
Lime slice for garnish (optional)
Cocktail glass
Put tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice in cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Moisten rim of cocktail glass with lime juice.
Holding glass upside down, dip rim into salt. Shake and strain drink into glass and serve.
Optional: lime slice for garnish
Kir Royale
15mL Crème de Cassis
150mL Sparkling Wine
1 Cherry
Pour Crème de Cassis into a champagne flute.
Gently pour Sparkling Wine.
Garnish with cherry.
Rosé Crush
90 ml rosé wine
45 ml orange juice
45 ml cranberry juice
Ice
Garnish with cranberries, raspberries and mint
Combine rosé wine, orange juice, and cranberry juice in an ice-filled shaker.
Shake well
Strain into ice-filled glass
Add garnish (optional)
Blooming Champagne Cocktail
2 drops rose water
15 ml hibiscus syrup
1 hibiscus flower
120 ml Sparkling wine
Put hibiscus flower into champagne flute
Add rose water and hibiscus syrup
Finish with sparkling wine
Blushing Bride
20 ml Absolut Vodka
20 ml Cherry
Liqueur
10 ml Egg White
20 ml Lime Juice
20 ml Orange Curacao
1 Dash Orange Bitters
Strawberry or Raspberry for garnish (optional)
Cocktail Glass
Fill Shaker with ice
All all ingredients into shaker
Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass
Add strawberry or raspberry for garnish
If none of the wedding cocktails above are to your liking feel free to check out our how to make your own signature wedding cocktail. This is for people who want a completely unique taste and experience for their wedding.
The above guide was tried and tested by the team at Pink Caviar Events – Cheers and Enjoy!
Please note that it took many hours of research to find and try the best wedding cocktails. It was hard work but we got there in the end 🙂
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Are you thinking of having any signature wedding cocktails? What did you decide to serve? Do you think we missed any wedding cocktails that should be on this list? Comment down below 🙂
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Sabrina
Event Crew
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Rochelle
Event Crew
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Event Crew / Florist
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Olivia
Event Coordinator/ Brideslave
Olivia loves weddings and events (any excuse to party!) and is always excited to help set up and decorate any style. From classical elegance to country rustic or Gatsby glam, her warm and friendly can-do attitude makes it easy for our clients to know that they will be well looked after.
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Drop bitters onto a sugar cube, let the bitters soak into the sugar cube.
Pour a small amount of dry vermouth in a chilled martini glass and swirl to coat the inside of the glass.
Pour a small amount of dry vermouth in a chilled martini glass and swirl to coat the inside of the glass.
Stir the whiskey, vermouth and bitters with cracked ice.
Add the sugar syrup, lime juice, mint sprigs and sparkling water into tall glass. Add lime wedges for decoration
Fill martini glass with ice to chill the put to one side.
Put tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice in cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Pour Crème de Cassis into a champagne flute.
Combine rosé wine, orange juice, and cranberry juice in an ice-filled shaker.
Put hibiscus flower into champagne flute
Fill Shaker with ice
If none of the wedding cocktails above are to your liking feel free to check out our how to make your own signature wedding cocktail. This is for people who want a completely unique taste and experience for their wedding.
