Custom wedding wine is more expensive per bottle than the rosé from the wine store, less expensive than the corkage at a Napa winery if it imposes a corkage fee, and roughly equivalent to a serious estate wine for a similarly serious wedding. The honest numbers below.
Our standard
Forty-eight bottles, twenty-four reds and twenty-four whites, at two thousand five hundred dollars per case quarter. This is approximately fifty-two dollars per bottle, all in. Includes the wine, the label design, the printing run, and concierge delivery in Southern California.
Per-guest math
A reception of one hundred and twenty guests typically pours one and a quarter bottles per guest across cocktails, dinner, and dessert. The 120-guest wedding wants approximately one hundred and fifty bottles. Three of our forty-eight bottle cases plus a small additional order, roughly nine thousand dollars all in. Per-guest wine cost lands at seventy-five dollars, which is below most catering markups for comparable estate wines on the venue's list.
Accessories
Magnums for head tables, half-bottles for welcome bags, hand-tied tags, and back-label dedication writing run as separate line items. A typical wedding adds approximately ten to fifteen percent on top of the base case price for accessories. Customers should plan accordingly.
Versus the venue list
Most wedding venues' house wine lists charge between sixty-five and one hundred and twenty dollars per bottle, on wine the venue marks up substantially. The custom-label program competes favorably for serious weddings and brings the additional benefit of a personalized object that the guest takes home.