Blue Signature Wedding Drinks: Perfect for a Beach Themed Wedding

If your wedding's colors include blue or you are having a beach themed wedding, a blue signature drink for your wedding is perfect. One classy yet inexpensive way to go with blue drinks at your wedding is to serve beer (or Skyy Blue Malt Beverage), wine, champagne for a toast, and one blue signature cocktail drink. Serve the drink in pretty pitchers at each table and let your guests pour for themselves.

Alternatively, set up a bar with pitchers of your blue signature drink, various mixers (club soda, fruit juices, mixes), and various garnishes, and let your guests create their own version of your signature drink. Put up menus giving your guests different ideas on what kinds of drinks they can mix.

Doing it this way is lots of fun for your guests and feels like an open bar yet is far less expensive than an open bar. If it's summertime, you might want to consider having a blender at your bar.

The most expensive yet most elegant way to present your signature drinks is to have an actual bar where a server makes each blue drink separately with flourish and personal service. Here again, you can set out recipe suggestions on a menu to help your guests decide which kind of blue signature drink they want. Another way to present your drink is to sugar or salt the rim. (Most of the drinks here should have a sugared rim.)

Whichever way you choose to present your signature drink, be sure to name it and tie it in with your color theme and/or the first or last names of the bride and groom. Each recipe below has a suggested name, but you may want to come up with your own.

Blue Signature Drinks for Your Wedding - Liquors and Mixers

When concocting your blue drink, think of liquor and mixers that are already blue. Sure, you can always color your drink, but it is best to start off with liquor and mixers that are already blue. Some blue liquors include:

- DeKuyper's Island Blue Pucker - a lively Hawaiian punch flavor

- Blue Curacao - beautiful sapphire blue, orange-ish taste with a slightly bitter taste (which can be overcome with sugar)

- Hypnotiq - aqua colored liqueur from France says it is a blend of cognac, tropical fruit juices, and vodka - a bit sour

- Blueberry Vodka

- Blue Sapphire Gin (Bombay)

Some naturally blue mixers are blueberry juices, unsweetened ice blue berry Kool Aid, Rose's Blue Raspberry Mixer, ½ gallon Blue Raspberry Frozen Drink Mix, Blue Hibiscus Drink Mix (can be used as a favor), and many more.

and of course, ice cubes colored with blue food coloring.

One note: Always serve a non-alcoholic blue signature drink for people who do not drink alcohol and for the kids, so that they may join in the festive nature of your themed wedding.

Blue Signature Drinks for Your Wedding - Recipes

Following are some blue drinks your guests are sure to remember. Note: Add the ingredients in the order they are listed, and don't skimp on the ice. If the drink does not call for ice in a collins glass, first shake the ingredients (not carbonated sodas) in a mixer and strain into a chilled martini or other glass.

The Something Blue
- 2 oz Hpnotiq
- 2 oz white wine
- 1 oz ginger ale
Add the ingredients in the order they are listed in a champagne flute.
Serve as is or with garnish.

Blue Hawaii

- 1½ oz. vodka

- ½ oz. Blue Curacao

- ¼ oz. crème de coconut

- 3-4 oz. pineapple juice

Serve on the rocks or blended. Garnish with a blue or other color umbrella with a cherry and pineapple chunk skewer. Serve in a collins glass.

Blue Mediterranean

1-2 oz. Bombay Blue Sapphire gin

1 oz blue curacao

Sprite

Shake gin and blue curacao together, put in highball filled with ice, add Sprite, and garnish with lemon slice

Blue Fizz

1 dash Blue Curacao liqueur
1 dash amaretto almond liqueur
1 dash lemon juice
Champagne

Pour blue curacao, amaretto and lemon juice into a champagne flute. Serve as is or with a lemon slice.

Blue Motorcycle

1 oz. tequila

1 oz. rum

1 oz. vodka

1 oz. gin

1 oz. Blue Curacao

Sweet & Sour mix

7-up

Serve in a collins glass filled with ice with a cherry and pineapple chunk skewered on an umbrella. Be careful with this one - it can sneak up on you.

Blue Martini

1 ½ oz. premium vodka

1 ½ oz. Bombay Sapphire Gin

½ oz Blue Curacao

Orange twist to garnish

Serve in martini glass.

Blue Cloud

1 oz Blue Curacao
2 oz Sambuca

Club Soda

In a collins glass filled with ice, pour the ingredients in as listed, then garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

Blue Lady

¾ oz Blue Curacao

1 ¼ oz lemon lime soda (7 Up)

Dash lemon juice

Add ingredients to a highball glass filled with ice, stir. Garnish with a slice of lemon. Very easy to make.

Blue Gumball

1 oz Vodka
1 oz Amaretto
1 oz Banana Liqueur
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 1/2 oz Lemonade
2 1/2 oz Water
Add ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice, shake, and strain. Garnish with a skewer of banana, lemon, and pineapple. This is one you can do ahead.

Blue Cocktail

1 oz Gin
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 oz Lime Juice

Sugar the rim of a rock glass. Add ingredients, shake, and strain into a rocks glass with ice.

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