Signature Wedding Cocktails by Color
The hall is booked, the food selected and the dress is of course perfect. With wedding season just around the corner, many brides (and grooms) are in the final stages, preparing those fine details that will really bring together their special day. One trend that really brings together a wedding reception is the signature cocktail. Finding that perfect drink to suit your taste, style and color-scheme can be a challenge, however we have put together an easy list to suit your wedding colors, making this one more detail you can check off the list.
PINK
Coconut Coral Cosmo
2.5 oz coconut vodka
2.5 oz pineapple vodka,
2.5 oz lime juice
1 oz triple sec
1 oz cranberry juice
½ oz agave nectar
Bach Martini Glass
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously, then strain into martini glass.
Frenchy
3 oz pear vodka
6 oz pineapple juice
2 oz cranberry juice
Incanto DOF Glass
In a chilled rocks glass filled with ice, add your vodka and pineapple juice. Top with a splash of cranberry juice.
RED
Ruby Red Breeze
3 oz cucumber vodka 6 watermelon pieces (1 ½ inch each)
1 oz lemon juice
1.5 oz simple syrup
1 oz Campari
Canaletto DOF Glass
Muddle watermelon and simple syrup at the bottom of a mixing glass until all of the fruit has turned into a juice. Add the rest of the ingredients to the glass and fill it with five large ice cubes.
Shake and strain the cocktail into a rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with a watermelon wedge.
Sex on the Beach
2 oz Vodka
1 oz Peach Schnapps
1 oz Chambord
4 oz cranberry juice
4 oz orange juice
Palace Water Glass
Pour all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice
PURPLE
Blueberry Mojitos
5-10 mint leaves
5 fresh blueberries
4 tsp sugar
1oz of a lime juiced
*muddle ingredients above to release flavours
3 oz rum
3 oz club soda
Michelangelo Hi-Ball
Fill glass with ice, lime wedge and muddled blueberry mixture. Pour liquid into glass and top with mint & lime slice.
Purple Flip Flop
1.5 oz vodka
1.5oz coconut rum
3 oz pomegranate juice
3 oz pineapple juice
Strauss DOF Glass
Mix all ingredients. Pour over ice and serve.
BLUE
Blue Long Island Iced Tea
2 oz Vodka
2 oz Tequila
2 oz Rum
2 oz Gin
2 oz Blue Curaçao
Michelangelo Cooler Glass
Combine ingredients over ice and strain garnish with a pineapple, lemon, or orange slice.
Blue Sparkling Star Cocktails
1 ounces orange infused vodka
1 ounces Blue Curaçao
Champagne
Crescendo Liqueur
Rim champagne glass with blue cocktail sugar.Gently pour in orange infused vodka, then pour in Blue Curaçao. Top with champagne.
TEAL
Aquamarine Martini
4 oz. Blue Ice American Vodka
1 ½ oz. sweet & sour mix
1 oz. Blue Curaçao
1 oz. pineapple juice
Elegante Martini Glass
Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry and a slice of pineapple.
Electric Blue Margarita
3 oz. gold tequila
3 oz. fresh lime juice
1 oz. Blue Curaçao
1 ½ ounce agave nectar
Prestige Water Glass
Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake, and strain into a glass filled with ice.
GREEN
Green Flash Cocktail
2 oz Vodka
11 oz Peach Schnapps
1 oz Blue Curaçao
5 oz orange juice
5 oz Sprite
Ice
Bach Beverage Glass
Mix ingredients together, serve over ice. Garnish with an orange slice and maraschino cherry.
YELLOW
Golden Glow
6 oz. Alizé Gold Passion
1 ½ oz. Rum
10 mint leaves
1 oz. lime juice
6 oz. ginger ale
Crescendo Large Tumbler
Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake, and pour into a glass filled with ice. Garnish with a mint sprig.
Ginger Melon Sangria
1 bottle white Moscato wine
8 ounces ginger beer
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1/4 cup melon liqueur
1/2 small watermelon, balled
1 cantaloupe, balled
1 honeydew, balled
1 lime, sliced, for garnish
club soda, for finishing
Michelangelo Pitcher
Prestige Stemless
Combine wine, ginger beer, lime juice, and melon liqueur in a large pitcher. Add melon balls. Let sangria sit for a few hours or overnight if possible. Served cold, topped with a splash of club soda and a slice of lime.
ORANGE
Peach Crush
24oz. peach Vodka
2 oz. triple sec
Splash of orange juice
Splash of soda water
Michelangelo Whisky
Pour all ingredients into a glass, stir. Garnish with mint leaves.
Tequila Sunrise
1 ½ oz tequila
0.5 oz grenadine
orange juice
Classico Liqueur
Combine all ingredients; serve on the rocks.
BROWN
Sweet Tea Sangria
6 cups sweet tea
1 bottle white wine
2 cups raspberries
2 cups sliced peaches
fresh mint, for garnishing (optional)
Crescendo Barrel Pitcher
Crescendo Stemless
Mix sweet tea and wine together in a large pitcher. Add fruit and chill for at least 2-3 hours, preferably 8 or more. Serve in glasses and garnish with mint.
Fall Caramel Appletini
3.5 Oz Vodka or Gin
4.5 Oz Apple Cider
Splash of Cinnamon Schnapps or Goldschlagger
Hypnos Martini Glass
Use a Martini Glass and dip the rim into the caramel sauce. Dip the Caramel coated rim in to crushed Gingerbread Cookie Crumbs. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice combine: Vodka, Schnapps and Cider. Shake and pour into the glass. Garnish the edge of the glass with an Apple slice and Cinnamon Stick.
CREAM
Banana Cream Pie Martini
6 oz vanilla vodka
1 oz whipped cream vodka
2 oz creme de banana
1 oz Amarula Cream liqueur
Michelangelo Martini
Combine ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice. Shake well and serve in martini glasses.
Birthday Cake Martini
2 oz whipped vodka
1.5 oz Amaretto
1 oz white chocolate liqueur
2 oz half and half cream
Prestige Martini
Rim the edge of a martini glass first in honey and then in sprinkles. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the vodka, Amaretto, white chocolate liqueur and half and half. Shake vigorously. Strain into your prepared martini glass.
What will YOUR signature drink and signature glass be?
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