If you're throwing a dry wedding, there are so many options other than standard sodas. From freshly squeezed juices to tasty lemonades to swizzle-stick garnishes, these mocktail ideas will keep your guests quenched and happy to clink. Photo by Sam Shorey and Cara Denison
For hot days, offer a variety of iced teas (black, green, and bright pink hibiscus). Decorate mason jars with burlap, ribbon, and colorful straws, and let guests serve themselves. Offer fresh mint, lemon, lime, and orange wedges and flavored simple syrups (like rose, vanilla, and ginger).
Beyond soda, offer freshly squeezed lemonade, and shake things up by offering different fruit flavors like strawberry, peach, and raspberry.
Depending on the season, offer freshly squeezed juices. For Winter and Fall weddings, serve pumpkin juice, and for Spring, opt for something fresh and tropical like a pineapple, mint, and apple juice. Alternatively, set up a juice bar and let guests mix and match their own ingredients.
For tropical-themed weddings, consider serving up fresh coconut water. It's especially amazing to watch the coconuts hacked open with a cleaver.
A fun way to add color and flavor to sparkling cider is by serving it with a rock-candy swizzle stick. Keep it in theme with your wedding colors.
Get creative with the water station. Thinly sliced cucumber or citrus and mint sprigs instantly upgrade water.
Serve canned sparkling waters, or set up a bar with sparkling water and various citrus juices.
Highlight seasonal flavors by creating Italian sodas made from blending flavored syrups like fresh rhubarb with sparkling water.
Take it from this backyard wedding, and serve sodas in glass bottles. Photo by Sam Shorey and Cara Denison
This couple served Izze sodas, Mexican Coke, and other sodas imported from Mexico. Photo by Sam Shorey and Cara Denison
Glean inspiration from this Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding and create a signature tea blend to serve guests.
Infuse the flavors of fresh fruit, herbs, and edible flowers in a sparkling water spritzer.