Glassware question for those of you providing your own beer/bar...

Our guests drank right out of the bottles. It worked out just fine.

Ours will be drinking out of bottles.

I have 85 guests, and I rented 100 wine and champagne glasses each. I am instructing people to think "environmentally friendly" and re-use their glasses. Since our beers are in kegs and large bottles (home brew in 22oz bottles), I am getting the "nicer" keg cups from Costco. Honestly, so much cheaper than renting three hundred beer pint glasses.

I really don't want to have to provide orange slices and beer glasses so I'm thinking FH is just going to have to get over it. This is why I prefer he not get involved!

I think you should definitely have oranges if you're serving Blue Moon. The bartender can cut them small enough so they fit in the bottles.

Can you use plastic cups instead of glasses? I've seen lots of wedding bars that use plastic, and as long as they're not red solo cups, it looks fine. I don't think it's an issue to have guests drinking out of bottles though, it's just personal preference.

Bottle is fine, even for Blue Moon. You can squeeze the orange slice in there (but you should have the orange slices). Maybe I'm the only one, but once I leave my drink unattended at any event or party, I won't drink from that glass again, including re-using the glass for another drink.

Bottle is fine like everyone says. there would be glasses everywhere. your instincts are right!

Beer will be served in bottles. Waaay too much hassle to rent glasses. You can stick an orange wedge into a bottle of Blue Moon, just like a lime into a Corona bottle.

I've had plenty of Blue Moon in my day and I've never heard of putting an orange slice in it. I wonder if it's a regional thing?

Maybe it is Sarah...never even considered that. It's how it's served in SC and how it's served on Florida too where my fiancé is from. I like the wedge idea though.

Sarah, I don't know how you've missed the orange in Blue Moon thing. Their own advertising shows their beer served with an orange, and it's commonly served that way in bars. Same for Shock Top, which is also a Belgian wheat ale. I don't think it's a regional thing.