How To Estimate How Much Alcohol to Serve at a Maui Wedding Reception

How To Estimate How Much Alcohol to Serve at a Maui Wedding Reception

Maui weddings with champagne service for the catered wedding reception.Estimating the amount of alcoholic beverages to serve at your wedding on Maui can be difficult to figure out. Be it beer, wine, your favorite signature cocktail or other alcoholic libations, you won’t want to run out of the beverages you’ve chosen to serve at your wedding reception.

Since Maui is a tropical destination wedding location the estimates are likely to be elevated in comparison to what you might anticipate serving at mainland wedding venues. Still, a few traditional event planning general rules of thumb will help:

General event planning guidelines edict consumption of alcohol is unlikely to be significantly greater than the rate humans are able to metabolize alcohol. Meaning, since the human body metabolizes alcohol at the rate of one ounce per hour on average, most people will only consume one alcoholic beverage per hour. Some may imbibe more than others but their consumption will be averaged by the non and lite drinkers.

How to Determine the Amount of Alcohol to Purchase for a Catered Event

A beer and wine bar service for a sunset beach wedding in West Maui at the Olowalu Plantation house estate wedding venue..

Estimating the amount of alcohol likely to be consumed during the wedding and reception can be accomplished by multiplying the guest count by the average amount of consumption per person and the duration of the event. Along with the guest count, the specific quantities of alcohol to purchase will be dependent on what we are serving.

For example, a 750 ml bottle of wine will pour 5 (148 ml) wine glasses while being sold in cases of 12 bottles. Beer is typically sold in 12 ounce cans and bottles in cases of 24. Champagne bottles are 750 ml, the same as wine bottle. A wine flute is about half the size of most wine glasses and will hold approximately 7 oz. of bubbly if filled.

How Much of Each to Purchase

Were you hoping to get more precise in terms of guest count vs. how much of each type of alcohol to purchase? OK, we can help with that level of wedding planning. Suppose your guest count is 50 people (note most Maui weddings average between 40 to 60 guests), based on the above estimates of consumption, you’ll want to purchase the following amounts of alcohol:

18 bottles of white wine (5 wine glass servings per bottle; 90 servings)
12 bottles of red wine (5 wine glass servings per bottle; 60 servings)
2.5 cases of beer (60 servings total)
4 bottles of champagne (10 flutes half filled per bottle; 40 servings) for the toast

Every Maui wedding includes a ceremonial toast at after the nuptials are exchanged!For a sunset wedding or other evening event on Maui with 50 guests attending, you’d want to plan for 250 servings. based on 50 people consuming 5 beverages each over the course of the 5 hour event.

Compliment the wedding beverage service with non-alcoholic such as water, juice and soda.

Still have questions about how much liquor, beer or wine to purchase for your catered event on Maui? Leave your questions in the comment section below and I’ll do my best to provide a quick answer to help plan a catered reception on Maui!

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My daughter and I visited Maui a couple of weeks ago and came to your restaurant 3 times. I just wanted to thank you for your willingness to meet our gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free requirements. We loved being able to eat out safely and wish we had a CJ’s at home! I just wrote you a stellar review on Trip Advisor. Hope you have a wonderful rest of the summer!

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Wonderful for a Sunday Brunch since you can order breakfast until 11:00am! Had a ‘custom’ 3 ingredient omelette (I chose mushrooms, feta and spinach) with nicely crunchy on the outside and soft inside home potatoes, yummy. Hubby had the pancakes with fresh fruit! These are light fluffy slightly sweet batter pancakes, not those heavy bland ones (OK I admit it, I had to have a few bites of his breakfast…) Service was fast and friendly :0). The menu is EXTENSIVE, we live here and love it!

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Fact: CJ’s Maui onion soup will melt your face off it’s so good. Best I’ve ever had. It gets 20 stars.
Alas, it’s not on the menu every day… But when my fiancee and I went this past summer and were lucky to meet Chef CJ in person and mentioned that we had been thinking about the onion soup since the last time we visited two years earlier, he was kind enough to put it on the next day’s menu. We went back the following day and ordered it, and it was amazing, just as we had remembered. Another fact: the onion soup at CJ’s is better than the onion soup at Mama’s Fish House (and at like 1/4th of the price). Really. It’s that good. Part of me wants to reverse engineer CJ’s onion soup recipe, quit my job, and make millions selling onion soup to the mainland masses! (or: CJ, wanna make a deal?)
I think that the loco moco gravy is made from the same goodness. So that’s great too. The potato salad is tasty as well.
The to-go lunch plate is respectable.

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On a previous visit to Maui, I had the most delicious mushroom soup at CJ’s Deli and Diner in Kaanapali. When I arrived in Maui this week, I emailed the restaurant and asked what day they might have the soup. The owner and chef, Christian Jorgensen (CJ), promptly replied even though he was on vacation in Vegas. He gave me a number to call to check on the soup of the day. Then when he returned to Maui on Friday, he emailed me to let me know he would have the soup for me on Saturday. When I got there, he was so friendly and the soup was even more scrumptious than I had remembered. I really appreciated how valued he made me feel as a customer.

Linda D.
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Good Morning, My wife and I spent last week in Maui. Your early bird special was the best. After we found you, we ate breakfast there every morning. You had two regular coffees that we just loved.

James T Wilson Jr
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Aloha, Just wanted to let you know that this post was up last Friday and it will be included (linked) with all of our Hawaii properties. Thank you both for excellent service. You made our trip to Maui very memorable! Feel free to comment on the post. It’s always good to have additional information and your input.

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Nancy Solomon, Travel Writer
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Aloha, We were in to see you many times during our stay last month in Ka’anapali, couple of things for you:
Need to order some more of your CJ’s roasted Kona Coffee. I see it’s not yet on your website, only the Maui Coffee Co. stuff. We ran out last weekend and are having withdrawls, please help!! Need 2 bags urgently!!
Secondly, your claim about having the best corned beef hash on the island. I think you’ve understated this because it’s the best I’ve had any where in the world! And that covers a lot of ground as I’ve been to every continent multiple times. Just the best anywhere, period!! Don’t suppose you would have that for delivery to Indiana would you? Maybe by the pound(s)?
Great people and even better food, Mahalo CJ’s. Seriously though, please let me know about that coffee. How do we get some ordered and shipped to Indiana?

Bill Clark, Valparaiso, In.
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​CJ’s Deli & Diner Rocks! Been here several times while visiting Maui – each time we tried different meals and each time we LOVED the food, service and atmosphere. Only suggestion would be to provide regular dinner napkins along with this paper type – because we’re messy!

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