Drink
The choice of drink you offer your guests tends to create or set the scene for the style and tempo of
your function.
It is therefore a crucial element in the design of the party/launch - for example guests who receive a classy drink delivered by a waiter/waitress with a friendly smile are inevitably made to feel welcome and important. A party with a busy free bar will inevitably have a less formal
atmosphere, but may be more fun (especially for your grateful
guests!).
There are many styles (and combinations of styles) of drink service, from waitress served to help yourself. Below, in no particular order, are a few ideas and issues to consider:
Bar
Often the focal point of the party, especially at the start.
Ice Bars
A bar made out of huge lumps of ice - frozen together. Glistening and spectacular - bottles of
vodka or gin (or anything else for that matter) frozen inside, creating a wonderful spectacle. Guests can sip their Martinis from Ice Glasses!
Free Bars
Always popular - one of the best ways to create a humming 'feel-good factor' for your guests. No licenses are required. Complete Events have enormous experience at managing hectic free bars.
Pay Bars
These require proper licensing, but otherwise work very well, especially when budgets are limited.
Themed Bars
Bar staff dressed to enhance your theme. Cocktails designed to support it. Props and Lighting used to augment it. All designed to make that crucial first impression and set the event off well by making your guests feel important, as well as by injecting some fun!
Miscellaneous
Corkage
Where you wish to supply your own drink, caterers will willingly serve it for you at your event, but will more than likely make a small handling charge for staff, ice, glasses etc etc.
Wine Lists
We aim to offer an extensive selection of wines, New World and classic vineyards, well known favourites and little known gems. Sensationally full reds to complex, ripe and sophisticated whites. Fine Wines - the perfect accompaniment to great food.
Click here to view an example wine list
Cocktails
From a Slow Comfortable Screw to a Champagne Sidecar, cocktails still offer great fun, imagination and class to your event.
Professional & entertaining cocktail waiters can perform their trickery behind a bespoke cocktail bar. Of course, these are particularly good when your event is themed (007, Las Vegas etc etc).
Design your own cocktails, or request that all cocktails served at your event are in-keeping with the theme. A wide range of non-alcoholic cocktails and smoothies is also available.
Luges
Another ice creation, luges are still extremely popular. Essentially they are any shape you might like (most common is the torso of a man or a woman) where liquor is poured in the top and is drunk by the guest as it leaves the ice
(no explanation required for where the Vodka's drunk from).
Great fun, good value and unlimited design possibilities, we can see luges being employed at parties for many years to come.
Tequila Slammer Guys & Girls
How very civilised! Models, in whatever costume befits your event, mixing and mingling, providing your guests with vodka/tequila etc shots galore!
Coffee & Coffee Bars
Freshly ground coffee served at your party, coffee bars with a vast range of coffees from mocachinos to espresso, iced coffee to cappuccino, add an interesting (and at the end of your party often invaluable) touch to your event. Wonderful when supplied along with a range of bars/alcohol providers and a variety of food 'stalls' or outlets, and visually appealing when decked out with a mix of leather sofas and poseur stools/tables.
For more information about the drinks we can serve at your function please CLICK HERE
