Everything about your wedding reception drinks

Everything about your wedding, whether you have chosen a stunning Hawaiian paradise setting or elegant estate on the hawaiian islands, is going to stir happy summer memories for your guests – the tranquility of the beach, the excitement of the summer season, and the cool, fruity summer drinks they’ve enjoyed while lounging in the sand, soaking up some summer rays! Help your wedding guests relive some of those memories – and help keep them cool – by stocking your bar with the ingredients necessary to make some of those delicious summer cocktails that helped shape some of the best summer parties in memory!
Making a blue Hawaiian and Lava flow tropical Drinks ideas for cooling off at your wedding

To begin with, consider a signature drink for your wedding reception. Many couples choose to have a signature drink either in place of a full bar or as sort of a drink highlight. You could choose your signature drink based on any number of things. If you and your spouse-to-be met over a drink for the first time, you might want to use that as your signature. For a beach wedding, though, consider your setting. If you are getting married on one of the Hawaiian islands, your signature drink might be the traditional Mai Tai or a Blue Hawaiian – which looks incredible with those glowing ice cubes you can now purchase. For a Caribbean beach wedding, you might go with a rum punch or something like a Bahama Mama or Caribbean Breeze. To make it even more personally your drink, you can purchase personalized swizzle sticks – these make great, inexpensive keepsakes of your wedding! If you don’t want to use something entirely personalized, you can find swizzle sticks topped with a bride and groom, a veil and top hat, or even ones that light up!

There are literally hundreds of cool summer cocktail variations, enough to suit every taste and any whim. When planning which to choose for your wedding, however, you want to consider that you will likely have a very diverse crowd. Even if you have the hippest grandmother in the world, she might have some difficulty approaching your bartender to order herself a nice cool Screaming Multiple !@#$% or a tasty and tropical #### on the Beach. Save those for the honeymoon, and instead, if you are going to choose only a few tropical delights to be available to your guests, stick with things like a Piña Colada, Frozen Margaritas, and frozen strawberry or banana daiquiris, in addition to your signature cocktail. Not only are your guests going to be familiar with the drinks and not be afraid to try them, they won’t feel a need to hit the confessional after they order them!
There are other things that you can do with your cool cocktails that will not only keep your guests comfortable, but help you create amazing wedding memories. Many people use numbers to indicate to guests at which tables they are seated. Instead of numbers, assign each table the name of a delicious and brightly colored summer cocktail. At the start of the wedding, just after all of your guests are seated and waiting for dinner, have your wait staff deliver a drink to all of your guests based on their table name (for example, all of the guests at your Blue Hawaiian table will get a Blue Hawaiian cocktail). Make sure the drinks are ornately adorned with beautiful tropical flowers or skewers of fresh fruit and a paper parasol. Ask your photographer to go from table to table and take a photograph of each table, with all of the guests holding up their cocktail in a toast to the newly married couple!
Blue Hawaiian Drink Recipe
1 oz light rum
1 cherry
2 oz pineapple juice
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz cream of coconut
1 slice pineapple
Other photo ops that might incorporate your tropical coolers include having all of the groomsmen standing with the groom, offering him something cold and colorful to drink before the wedding. Not only does it make a bit of a humorous photo, but it also looks striking to have brightly colored cocktails pictured on a background of either black tuxedos or white linen shirts and pants. You could do the same with bridesmaids, only choosing a drink color that complements their color scheme.
To give your guests an added “cool” bonus, consider having one of your tropical drinks poured into glasses through an ice luge. You could have a tropical martini (made with coconut rum and almond liqueur) mixed and then served down the ice luge, giving this tropical treat a nice chill before it hits your guests’ glasses.