5 (Pretty and Delicious!) Non-Alcoholic Drinks To Serve At Your Wedding

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Weddings are joyous occasions full of family and friends, smiles, laughter, tears, and celebration! Weddings incorporate all sorts of activities, music, customs and traditions, and various types of food and drinks. Though it's popular to have open bars and alcoholic cocktails at a wedding, it is by no means required. Whether you feel uncomfortable having alcohol at your wedding or just want to offer guests a variety of non-alcoholic choices for beverages, these 5 are a wonderful addition to any love party!

(Click on the drink names to get the full recipes!)

1. The World's Best Cherry Limeade

Brought to you by the girls over at Pretty Providence, this bright and tasty cherry limeade is sure to be a hit at your wedding, especially if it's in the warmer spring and summer months! This recipe calls for frozen limeade concentrate, Sprite, lime, maraschino cherries (with juice), and pebble ice for serving (to keep it cool and make it look pretty!). Very easy to make, the recipe can be multiplied in order to make enough servings for your wedding celebration. It is also made with inexpensive ingredients, so it really is a budget-friendly option and can help you save some major bucks on your big day.

2. Ocean Water

Mallory & Savannah, the two lovely ladies behind the blog Classy Clutter, have come up with the perfect "Ocean Water" recipe that is a copycat for Sonic's own drink! Yum! In order to make your own batch, you'll need white sugar, water, lemon-lime soda, coconut extract, and blue food coloring. You can add fresh fruit as a garnish such as pineapples, oranges, limes, and maraschino cherries. Just skewer them onto a party pick and serve, or just cut them down the center enough to have them sit on the rim of your cup. This is especially beautiful for a summer or beach-themed wedding!

3. Watermelon Lime Soda

Summertime in a glass! This delicious watermelon lime soda is brought to you by Annalise of the blog Completely Delicious. For this drink recipe, you'll need fresh watermelon chunks, sparkling water or club soda, lime simple syrup (a combo of sugar, water, fresh lime juice, and lime zest), and water. Just puree the watermelon chunks and strain the juice so that the seeds and pulp are removed, and combine the watermelon juice, simple syrup, and sparkling water in a pitcher, add in the simple syrup last, to taste.

4. Double Hot Chocolate

The perfect addition to any winter wonderland wedding. Better Homes and Gardens has it right with this super-chocolatey version of the classic hot cocoa recipe. For the drink, you'll need half-and-half, light cream, or whole milk, chopped semisweet and bittersweet chocolate, dark-color corn syrup, and sweetened whipped cream. This warm drink is great for any holiday wedding or one during the cooler months, as it will be sure to taste great and keep your guests full of good cheer the whole night through.

5. Non-Alcoholic Apple Cider Sangria

For this sweet holiday drink, you'll need Granny Smith and Honey Crisp apples, oranges, pears, and pomegranates, non-alcoholic apple cider, lemon-lime seltzer water, and sugar. From the blog Cooking With Manali, this non-alcoholic version of sangria would be a great addition to any bevergae list, and can double as either a holiday drink for weddings in the winter months, and also as a tasty summer drink full of fresh fruit for weddings in the warmer months (or those tropical destination weddings!)