If you are throwing a cocktail party champagne cocktails are very hip again. One of the most traditional of drinks to serve at any wedding is the classic champagne cocktail. These are drinks where champagne or sparkling wine offset other alcohol choices.
The site “The Fifty Best Champagne Cocktails” has a great comprehensive list of contemporary champagne cocktails. However at the top of theist is the classic Bellini, which is champagne, mixed with peach puree and orange juice.
If your wedding is in the morning you might want to try a Morning Glory, which is Cointreau, cherry brandy, pineapple slices and champagne.
The guys at your party might go for a Black Velvet which is champagne mixed with chilled stout. A Mimosa is more delicate and features champagne mixed with orange juice. If you want a pink colored wedding Champagne Cocktail then try a Poinsetta which is champagne mixed with Cranberry juice. A very classic purple colored drink is a Kir which is crème de cassis liqueur with wine or champagne.
What is a wedding without champagne? When you are serving sparkling wine or champagne at a wedding it is probably not a good idea to serve the best of the best simply because not everyone at a wedding is a wine expert. You can invest the money but that does not mean it will be appreciated.
Avant Bride recommends a couple of selections that are both affordable and sophisticated. One of them is Veuve du Vernay which is a bubbly pink or white wine that is a real bargain at only nine dollars a bottle.
Another popular choice under ten dollars is Freixenet which costs under ten dollars. It is a smooth bubbly champagne colored wine that is made near Barcelona.
A slightly more expensive choice is Argyle Brut which costs between twenty and twenty four bucks a bottle. Many who try this say it tastes like a much more expensive forty dollar bottle of wine like Veuve Cliquot.
If you want a glamorous at your wedding try presenting a champagne fountain. Real champagne fountains are not made of plastic. They are metal beauties that are made out of wine glasses that sit on special tiers. You can get them in three to six to eight tier versions. The more tiers the more gorgeous the waterfall of champagne looks as it spills into the glasses.
It is possible to have sixty, forty or twenty champagne flutes or bell shaped glasses filling in the champagne fountain at any one time. They come with light boxes that have them illuminated in different colors and the effect really is gorgeous. The glasses are lit from beneath in neon pink, lime or yellow hues. They can also be rigged up with silver cups or with tinted liquids such as pink champagne.