Dress Up Simple And Cheap Cocktails

We all know supplying alcohol for a wedding can be expensive. OK, let's be honest, it can be VERY expensive. You want to purchase enough to last the night and have enough variety to keep everyone happy. All this while trying to keep some cash in your banking account. You decide to go with the staple liquors - rum, vodka, beer, wine, champagne, and plenty of mixers. They will save you money, but they are soooo boring to the eye.

Well, how about you dress it up a bit. A single piece of fruit hanging off the side of a glass can give a new look to a glass of alcohol. Instead of on the side of the glass for champagne, try floating a few raspberries or strawberries in the bottom. The same is true for sparkling wine. A fruit kabob (strawberry, pineapple, and lime) placed across the top of the glasses gives your guests an option of which fruit they would like to add to their drinks.

This idea is my favorite - coat your rim of the glasses with lemon juice and then dip them into colored sugar. You can even credit a colored sugar with food coloring to match the colors of your wedding. A simple martini style drink does not take a lot of liquor types and is fairly easy to make. Plus, I think it looks quite elegant.

Having a beach or summer wedding? Simply add a cute and colorful umbrella to your drink glasses. I recently saw them on sale in a party supply store, 100 umbrellas for a dollar - what a deal!! I personally get excited when I go to the beach and the bartender gives me an umbrella for my drink.

Many online wedding stores are selling monogram clings you can wrap around the outside of your drinking glasses. You can get them specialized as well, meaning you could even have the bride and groom's name on the clings. This is a guaranteed way to be asked where you got the glasses. But, shh, no one needs to know they are really clings.

So, take your glasses and spruce them up a little but for your next event. Check back in a few days for a post on sprucing up glassware for your event. It is going to be funky, but I like funky! =)