As of 13 August 2026, AI can create a wedding drinks list.

What to actually do

1. Do it yourself

   The route this page recommends

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your venue contract and supplier information, then gather the guest count, service times, alcohol rules, glassware arrangements, corkage terms and any drinks already included.
   2. Write down the budget, likely drinking patterns, welcome drink, meal drinks, toast, evening drinks, non-alcoholic requirements and any allergies or cultural preferences.
   3. Paste the prompt into an AI chat and replace every bracketed slot with your event details, including the supplier's current pack sizes and prices if you have them.
   4. Ask the AI to produce the grouped list, quantity assumptions, shopping list and venue questions, then answer any follow-up questions using information from your venue or supplier.
   5. Compare every drink, quantity, pack size and price in the draft against the current supplier list, and confirm the final choices and venue restrictions with the person supplying or serving the drinks.

   Prompt

   Create a practical wedding drinks list for [number] guests in the UK.
   
   Event details:
   - Date and service length: [details]
   - Venue and its alcohol, glassware, corkage and licensing rules: [details]
   - Budget: [amount or range]
   - Drinks already included by the venue or caterer: [details]
   - Welcome drink: [details or suggest options]
   - Drinks with the meal: [details or suggest options]
   - Toasting drink: [details or suggest options]
   - Evening drinks: [details or none]
   - Non-alcoholic drinks: [details]
   - Beer, wine and spirit preferences: [details]
   - Allergies, dietary requirements and cultural preferences: [details]
   - Whether guests will mainly drink wine, beer, spirits or soft drinks: [details]
   - Supplier pack sizes and current prices, if available: [paste details]
   
   Produce:
   1. A concise drinks list grouped by service stage.
   2. Estimated quantities for each item, showing the assumptions used rather than presenting them as facts.
   3. A separate non-alcoholic list, including water.
   4. A shopping list using the supplier's pack sizes where provided.
   5. A short list of questions I must confirm with the venue or supplier.
   6. Two alternatives for any choice that depends on taste or budget.
   
   Use British English and pounds. Do not invent venue rules, prices, brands, guest preferences or quantities from missing information. Mark missing information clearly and ask only the questions that would materially change the list. Keep the result practical for a wedding organiser to check.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Hand it to a person

   The distant third

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.