How Much Alcohol Do You Need? Free Wedding & Event Calculator

Planning a wedding, corporate event, or party in Moab, Utah? Figuring out how much alcohol to buy is one of the most stressful parts of event planning — order too little and you run dry, order too much, and you're stuck with cases of leftover wine. Our free alcohol calculator takes the guesswork out of it. Enter your guest count, event length, and drink preferences, and we'll estimate exactly how much beer, wine, and liquor to purchase for your event.

Bar calculator. Estimates bottles, mixers and supplies for your event.

Bar Calculator

Tell us about your celebration and we'll build your shopping list — named bottles, exact counts, mixers and all. No email required, and you're welcome to run it as many times as you like.

Drinking guests100
Estimated drinks550
Est. cost$—

Event details

Optional. We'll take them out of the liquor totals but still count them for water and mocktails.

What kind of drinkers are your guests?

Your signature cocktails

Most couples arrive with ideas already in mind, so type yours in. A name is plenty. Browse our classics if you'd rather, or add your own recipe. All of it is optional except the two names.

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What else are you serving?

Your signature cocktails are set up in their own section above and are always part of the list. These checkboxes are for anything in addition to that.

A champagne toast is counted on top of your drink total, at one glass per drinking guest.

Drink type breakdown

Defaults reflect typical wedding consumption. Only what you're serving shows up here.

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White wine67%

The rest goes to red. Two-to-one favouring white is our recommendation, since white moves faster out here.

Spirit tier

Used to estimate cost. It doesn't change your bottle counts.

Recommendations, not a guarantee

Every number here is an expert estimate. Real consumption shifts with weather, pour style, crowd and timeline. A consultation call is included with every client, and we'll refine all of this together before you buy anything.

Your shopping list

Buying in Utah

Spirits, wine and full-strength beer come from state liquor stores at fixed prices with no returns, so it pays to call your order in ahead. Buy comfortably on liquor since unopened bottles keep indefinitely, and buy tight on citrus, herbs and anything perishable.

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Request a proposal Optional. We'll refine these numbers and build your menu together.

Planning an event in the Moab area?

This calculator was built by our team at Moab Bar Trailers, a locally owned mobile bar service based in Moab, Utah. We've bartended hundreds of weddings, corporate retreats, birthday parties, and festivals across Grand County and Southeast Utah, and we've learned exactly how much alcohol different crowds drink.

Once you know your quantities, let us handle the rest. Our licensed bartenders bring a fully equipped mobile bar trailer to your venue — from intimate desert elopements to receptions of 150+ guests. We serve the southern Utah & western Colorado area, including Castle Valley, La Sal Mountains, Monticello, and Grand Junction, CO.