Five wedding-ready cocktails

Posted on 15 November, 2016

While beer and wine are safe, easy options for a wedding, why not stray from the beaten path and include a signature wedding cocktail to your big day?

You’ll probably have a professional in charge of mixing, but whether yours is a garden, beach or church wedding, we have some suggestions for tasty tipples…

Summer wedding

Coconut Margarita

1 cup sweetened shredded coconut

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup freshly squeezed lime juice

¾ cup Coco Lopez or cream of coconut

½ cup tequila

¼ cup Cointreau (or any orange liqueur)

Sangria

Mix to your taste:

Cut fruit (apples, oranges)

Sugar

Brandy

Orange juice

Red wine

Ice

Autumn wedding

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Rob Roy

25ml sweet vermouth

45ml scotch whisky

Dash of angostura bitters

Sazerac

10ml absinth

One sugar cube

45ml rye whiskey or cognac

3 dashes of Peychaud’s Bitters

Winter wedding

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Mulled Wine

10 whole cloves

2 cinnamon sticks

¼ cup castor sugar

1 roughly grated nutmeg

2 cups of water

1 roughly grated orange rind

1 roughly chopped apple (skin on)

1 bottle (750ml) fruity red wine (perhaps a merlot)

Lava Lamp Cocktail

30ml pomegranate liqueur

2/3 cup champagne

3 pomegranate seeds

Spring wedding

Image via The National Museum of Australia

Pimms

Mix to taste:

Pimms

Lemonade

Ginger ale

Ice

Lemon and lime (garnish)

Kiwi Daiquiri

For proportion, to be blended and garnished:

1 kiwi fruit, sliced

1 tablespoon lime juice

45 oz. rum

Crushed ice