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Five Reasons to Hire an Event Bartender for Your Wedding

Springtime in Austin means many couples are busy planning for their big day. Weddings in Austin and the Hill Country are wonderful any time of year, but there is something about spring, isn’t there?

Here are five reasons why you should hire an Austin bartender for your wedding event:

5. YOU GET TO ENJOY YOUR OWN WEDDING – Having an Austin bartender do all the “hard work” allows you to worry about the other important matters, such as who will dance with your kid sister or “how long should I keep him waiting….”

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Preventable Austin Wedding Disasters – Heat, Kids and Shots

The TABC-certified Austin bartenders of Drink Slingers (of Austin, Texas) have worked hundreds of events. They have a pretty good idea of what makes an Austin wedding fun and what puts a damper on the party.

Here are our Austin bartender’s top three Austin wedding preventable disasters:

 

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Tools of our trade - respect, courtesy, honesty

Last November, Drink Slingers LLC merged with the pre-existing event bartending service Urban Bartenders. Since then, we have had the pleasure of working with Urban Bartenders' past clients. And we have done everything in our power to uphold the integrity of UB while finding our own style of footing in the Austin event bartending industry.

And this review, recently posted on Wedding Wire, helps us to know that we are on the righ track:

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Why hire a mobile Austin bartender for your next event? (Reason #2)

When you have a party where everyone is in charge of making their own drinks, the designated area for doing so (oftentimes the kitchen) will invariably become a disaster. And if there is ONE person who is in charge of making drinks, then that person isn't going to be able to enjoy the party. Either way, someone is going to have to do the work to make drinks and clean up after everyone.

When you hire a mobile Ausitn bartender, we do it all.

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Simple Pleasures - Margaritas

Two of our Austin bartenders (Sadie & Nannette) were hosted by some of their good friends on Friday night where they all shared a delicious lasagna dinner and a raucous game of Dobble! This was all preceded by their host whipping up a simple batch of blended margaritas using only four ingredients: ice, fresh lime juice, tequila and just a splash of agave. Simply delicious.

 

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What you get when you hire Drink Slingers

We LOVE our team of Drink Slingers and we believe we just may have the best Austin bartenders.

All of our Austin bartenders are friendly, enthusiastic, TABC-certified, licensed and fully insured!

Interested in what Drink Slingers services entail? Then look no further than right here:

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Another Great Austin Bartender Review!

We love getting good reviews, especially from the folks we have built relationships with over the course of planning their events. This one is no exception, and makes us proud to be offering exceptional Austin bartender service and the surrounding areas

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Thanksgiving Drink Ideas

It's officially the holiday season, which means the drink choices are shifting to accommodate both the changing weather and the desire to celebrate. Here's two Austin bartender favorites...

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