How to Select Champagne for Your Wedding Reception
Champagne is the official toasting beverage of weddings. The best man stands in front of the guests and everyone toasts the new couple with champagne. Follow these steps to select champagne for your wedding reception.
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Instructions
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Decide how important the champagne or sparkling wine is to your reception. Make this clear to your catering or venue manager. They will sometimes make changes for you without your acknowledgment.
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Taste the champagne or sparkling wine first. Make sure that it is to your liking. If there is another choice that is not on the wine list, ask if it may be ordered. With advance notice, they should be able to accommodate your request.
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Think of how you are going to be incorporating the champagne into your reception. Will it be used for the toast? This will help you to decide how much you will need to order.
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It is a good idea to order a dry champagne if you will be serving it with the main meal. If it will be served with the cake and desserts, then you will want to order a sweeter champagne.
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Tips & Warnings
Plan to serve about two glasses of champagne per guest. But this is only an estimate, as some guests will not have any at all.
Purchase or rent smaller champagne flutes for the guests to drink from. You will save money on champagne.
Most people do not care for champagne. Have another alternative for toasting for the people who do not care for it.
