Many destination weddings now host a welcome reception on the Thursday before the Saturday wedding. The event is a cocktail hour, frequently outdoors at the venue. The wine served is typically a single sparkling and a single white. The bottle on the bar that night is the first time the wedding's branding appears in public.
Sparkling format
We do not currently offer sparkling wine in the custom-label program. Customers who want a sparkling for the welcome reception typically pair our still wines with a separately-sourced sparkling, with a custom wedding-brand neck-collar or hangtag for visual continuity. The hangtag is a small accessory we offer that wraps any sparkling bottle's neck.
White wine choice
The Countryside Select white is the right white for an outdoor welcome reception. It pours well chilled, reads as fresh under outdoor light, and tastes calibrated for warm-weather service. The label, in the wedding's standard brand line, signals the wedding's beginning.
Number
A welcome reception of one hundred guests pours about thirty to forty bottles across an hour and a half. Two cases of white plus a small allowance of sparkling is approximately right. The remaining bottles from the standard wedding order serve at the rehearsal dinner Friday and the reception Saturday.