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Whether you are a teetotaller, a sober curious drinker or a regular tippler you will surely agree that the right beverages accompanying your favourite dishes can help elevate your overall dining experience. Now when it’s your wedding day, where food is one of the factors grabbing the spotlight, you have to be extra careful about the beverages that go with your meticulously planned wedding menu.
This is why picking the right bartenders for your wedding is important. They are as vital to the function as a DJ or any other form of entertainment. If you’ve factored in the budget for one, you can stand to reduce stress in the menu planning process and create a memorable experience for your guests.
We’ve put together a list of some of the best bartenders from around the country who you can enlist for your wedding. Be it bespoke mocktails or classical alcoholic beverages on the rocks, these bartenders take care of all your beverage needs.
With more than 2000+ beverage menus in their arsenal, Elixir Coterie consists of professionals skilled at organising destination weddings within the country and beyond. A subsidiary of the renowned Delhi-Mumbai-Bangalore Cocktail Week, the team at Elixir consists of 50 professional bartenders who include experts from 5-star hotels and sommeliers from across the globe who help them curate their exquisite bar menus. With flair shows, popcorn stations and stunning Champagne towers, Elixir leaves no stone unturned to make your wedding bar look one of a kind.
Led by Rituraj Bhosle, the wedding bartenders have designed the best bar menus at some of the country’s most talked about weddings like Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s big fat Indian wedding and Farhan Akhtar and Shibani Dandekar’s intimate nuptials. Whether it’s cocktails made of exotic ingredients, fiery flamed shots, or fizzy drinks for teetotallers, the team of mixologists cater to all your bar needs with utmost precision. In addition, they also provide customised glassware at no additional price to make your special day even more special. Living by their team motto that reads, “The passion for perfection is our primary obsession”, they have been one of the most sought-after names in the wedding industry since 2011 and have been consistently living up to their popularity without deviating from their vision and mission of presenting perfect beverages at every event they undertake.
With multiple branches across the city of Mumbai and Pune, the team of professionals at Bar Baraati ensure that the service of drinks at your wedding festivities remains seamless without any glitches. Whether it’s personalised cocktail menus, customised glass and tableware, detox bars or themed bar setups that align with the vibe of your wedding functions, the team of professionals at Bar Baraati can cater to all sorts of special requests.
“Constant and continuous innovation” is how the team of professionals at The Bartender House approach the art of beverage making. Founded by mixologist Shailesh Pandey, who is also known on Instagram as ‘the dancing bartender’, the team of barmen at The Bartender House don’t just believe in serving drinks, they believe in creating memories through their sips. By applying modern-day techniques of the food and beverage industry like molecular gastronomy and artificial intelligence, each drink curated by the sommeliers of The Bartender House is curated to appeal to your taste buds.
Founded by veteran bartenders Siddesh Sawant and Ovais Shaikh, the team at The Tipsy Co has been responsible for handling bar operations at some of the most note-worthy star-studded unions of all times, including Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’s wedding in Udaipur and Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma’s dreamy pastel themed wedding in Tuscany, Italy. Mesmerising guests with impeccable showmanship and expertise is the philosophy that keeps the barmen at The Tipsy Co going. Not only do they create customised cocktails and present all-time favourite fizzy drinks with a modernised twist, but also are exceptionally skilled in the art of fire flaring and juggling.
Blessed with remarkable flaring, juggling and mixology skills, Ami Shroff is one of the first few female wedding bartenders in the country. From helping people curate their menus for their cocktail parties, organising workshops to help people understand food and beverage pairing and also providing social media promotional services for all your cocktail and sangeet parties. Ami Shroff and her team leave no stone unturned to make your sangeet cocktail parties one for the books.
From educating people about the process of winemaking and food and beverage pairing, organising tasting sessions at routine intervals, providing gift hampers for your guests or obtaining a one-day alcohol licence for your wedding day, the people at the Kolkata-based Wine & cheese affaire take care of it all. In addition, they also offer menu planning and catering services at a very negligible cost. Additionally, they also help set up grazing tables, charcuterie boards and side platters to go along with all your drinks.
Ensuring flawless execution of beverage service is the philosophy that keeps the team of Mix n Serve Delhi going. Along with creating drinks that remain etched in the minds of your guests for a long, the core strength of the team lies in creating OTT-themed bar set-ups to align with the vibe of all your wedding festivities. Founded by Ashwin Rane, along with outsourcing professional bartenders, providing high-quality bespoke glassware for your festivities, customised grazing tables, setting up platters and munching boards that go along with your wedding menus, they also offer props and decorative aids at no cost to amp the overall vibe of all your functions.
Flaming Trio not only focuses on providing top-notch beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic for all wedding festivities throughout the country but also believes in nurturing and motivating budding bartenders through its academy Drinq India. The bartenders of Flaming Trio have been responsible for handling the bar operations at Randeep Hooda and Lin Laishram’s reception and Arbaaz Khan and Shura Khan’s low-key affair. With over 20 years of experience, the Flaming Trio focuses on creating unforgettable experiences for events of all sizes. The company has over 300 professional bartenders on board working in India and UAE who are well-versed in the skills of mixology, flaring, bartending and juggling that are sure to leave all your guests awe-struck.
Since its beginning in 2018, Deli Cocktail House has been consistently making waves in the wedding bartending industry. Honoured by the International Convention of Wedding Fraternity, the team provides excellant bartending and management services. They also provide wedding DJs who will help get your wedding party started at no additional cost. Moreover, they also provide catering services. A brainchild of Mohit D Chandani, the Deli Cocktail House also has a cutlery firm by the name ‘In House Barware’ that manufactures luxury cutlery, mixology equipment, and bar and diningware.
So, which of these bartenders will you book for your wedding day?
Neha Karra is a junior writer, who loves to discover and try the latest trends in style, food and beauty. When she is not curating articles, you will find her playing with kids, reading books, painting and practising Mandala Art. View Profile
