Champagne for the toasts

Generally if I'm serving champagne, it's a gentle pour until the fizz hits the top (leaving you with about 1/2 of a glass), then when the fizz goes down I top it off to about 3/4 of a glass.

A champagne bottle yields about 5 glasses of champagne...so I'd say 14 bottles if everyone is imbibing, or 12 (a case) if you have young people, nondrinkers, etc.

Are you planning to ONLY use sparkling wine for the toast, or will it be available for general drinking?

We had a case of sparkling wine at our hometown reception for ~45 people, along with an open bar of white wine, red wine, and beer. DS & I ended up with like 7 bottles left, I think, so I think most people preferred the other options. Of course, we had the same sparkling wine at our DW and had THREE CASES of the stuff for 35 people (don't ask--we definitely overestimated, and then a number of guests backed out)--based on photographic evidence, we drank 21 of those, and then gave away the other 15 to people who didn't have to fly home (saving one bottle for ourselves to drink on the Strip). That was fairly heavy drinking. So if you're just doing it for toasts, or offering other options, I'd go with Shannon on 14 bottles for toasts, MAYBE two cases (24) if you think some people will prefer it over other options for drinking.

Cabell, why do I get the sinking feeling that right after that picture was taken, y'all starting Booze Bowling, using the bottles as pins?

Lol thank you ladies ... we will have an open bar of red & white wine & beer but the champagne and sparkling cider because we do have a few non drinkers will be strickly for the toasts... this helps alot

Not sure if this helps, but we're having 8-10 people at a table and we're just putting a bottle on everyone's table as my fiance wants to do. However, we aren't allowed any outside food or drink other than cake and cookies, so the champagne comes from them...its a supmoni (sp??) magnum bottle and they'll monogram our labels.

I like your idea of the sparkling cider for the non-drinkers...I hadn't thought about that because I know I have a few people in recovery or non-drinkers for other reasons coming...so thank YOU!

@karatechick where are you getting the monogramed labels from? sounds like a cute idea

@ everyone else thank you for the advise... I'm not much of a wine drinker so I'm not sure about servings and what not ...