When you say a bottle of wine on the table - how many is that between. You need to find out exactly what you are getting per head and then you can roughly work out what it would cost you to do it yourself. x

You would get 6 servings per bottle therefore to work out the three drinks

17 x 6 = £102

Take corkage 10.5 + 10.5 + 9 = £30

102 - 30 = £70

70 /3 = £23 per bottle to break even or if you spent less per bottle it would be even cheaper. I would pay corkage Hun and you could even having sparkling wine instead of bucks fizz for arrival drinks xx

Corkage does sound a lot better :-) any advice on wines or sparkling wines while I'm on a role ha :-)

or you can buy bulk in Cost)Co they were doing buck fizz for 3 pound a bottle last time i was there xx

Would it be even cheaper for you to ask the reception venue to scrap the wine and Buck's Fizz etc? You could ask for a bar price list and give all your guests 2 or three drinks tokens each on arrival or place them at the tables beside the favours or whatever. This gets rid of the corkage charge and people can order whatever drink they want with their meal.

I don't know if that would be cheaper or not, but it might be worth looking into.

you will have to find out how much wine per person for the table we are having half a bottle of wine each person with arrival drinks and glass of prosecco water on the table and it works out more cheaper than corkage . from then on every one will by there own drinks xx

Wow JordanA that is an extortionate price! My corkage is £5 for wine and £6 for champagne! xxx

Linzi-Jo that's an amazing price. Our venue doesn't allow corkage and I can understand why for the price but if it was that good I would defo go for it x