Drinks! :)

When we were planning our wedding, we already knew we wanted to have an open bar. And part of our reception set-up was a fully lighted bar. However, since we were in a hotel, a full open bar c/o them was a little too costly. Instead, we were able to haggle for loads of bottles of wine (I can't remember how many bottles there were now but we brought home a lot after) and an unlimited amount of the drinks that were specially mixed just for that day (we were able to get special discounts on the corkage for that one - just a tip, if you want it bad, haggle! Hotels will accommodate :D).

We spent a night at Big Sky Mind with Cindy Malong (she is Mark's, a groomsman, sister) who mixed us various drinks while the rest of us tested them out (we walked out of there drunk, haha). We only had about two guidelines:

1. One drink each in our colours - so one Gold drink and the other Plum (or purple)
2. They had to be traidor - if you thought they tasted and were just like juice, you were badly mistaken. haha!

So at the end of the night, we had these:

photo c/o Syd

So the reason why I'm writing about this is because as I was going through old notebooks to re-use (I have some half-filled notebooks), I came across our wedding notebook and found the recipes for each. :D

So for posterity's sake:

The Gold Drink (It's actually based on a drink found in Big Sky Mind's bar list, if I'm not mistaken. :D I know that we named it, but I can't remember it)

1 shot rum
1/3 shot lime juice
1/3 shot triple sec

The Plum Drink (I think we named this one too, but I can't remember also, haha!)

1 shot Absolut Mandarin
1 1/2 shots sprite
Dash of grenadine
Dash of blue curacao

A lot of people came up to us after raving about how good they were and how surprisingly drunk they were (drinking it like it was juice, I guess). Haha! All I know was that I only had one glass of the purple drink on our wedding day (it's my favorite out of the two) and that after, we had friends carrying off extra bottles of Mandarin to finish off :D

The bar was tended by Cindy and her crew from Big Sky Mind. We are forever grateful.

Hmm.. now if only I have license to drink, I would gladly mix them drinks again! :) Or as Reg says, "... sa 25th uli!" :D haha

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