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Skip the line that swallows the cocktail hour. Your guests scan a QR, order from their seat, and get a text the moment their drink is ready. The cart pours with your colors, your fonts, even a drink named after you. When the night ends, you get a magazine-style keepsake of who came, what they drank, and the notes they left.
150 guests, one cart, one barista. Twenty minutes if you’re lucky, forty if it’s warm. Your guests came to see you, not to wait for an iced cortado.
“Sarah? Sarah! Is there a Sarah?” The barista can’t hear over the band. A latte that should’ve been iced goes hot. Someone settles.
When it’s over, all you have is a receipt, and the lingering memory of the line. Nothing tied to the day, nothing to share.
A double-sided table tent on every table, your names in your own type, reading the right way up from either side. Each one tags its orders with that table number, so drinks come back to the right seat. You design them and print at home. Guests open the menu where they sit, no app, no download.
Your palette, your fonts, your welcome note. They build a drink, milk, syrup, ice, and add the bridesmaid’s order while they’re at it.
They head back to the party. Their phone says about how long, read from how fast the bar is pouring tonight. Then it buzzes with their drink’s ticket number, the pickup spot, and a soft prompt to grab it.
Their name is already on the label. No “Sarah? Sarah!” No waiting. Back to their table with a perfect drink in hand.
Right after they order, their phone shows where they are in line, “three drinks ahead of yours”, and about how long. They put the phone in their pocket and go be at your wedding. Two minutes later it buzzes: “your drink is ready.” They walk up to a label with their name on it.
We send you a private link the moment you book. From your phone, you choose a palette, soft sage, warm cream, deep indigo, or drop in a photo of your invitation and take the one it proposes. Mix your own and you see right away whether guests can read it, even outside in full sun. Pick a font pairing, upload your monogram, and write a welcome note your guests see when they scan in. The QR menu, the double-sided table tents, the cup labels, the keepsake, all of it picks up the look you chose.
Pick the four drinks you want on your bar and write the names yourself. They print on the menu next to the classics. Guests order yours by name. One switch adds a kids menu, steamed milk, hot chocolate and a babyccino, for the smallest guests. For Emma & James, it looked like this.
The Emma
Iced oat-milk latte with house lavender + a whisper of vanilla.
Soft, floral, easy on a warm afternoon.
The James
Iced caramel macchiato with whole milk, half-sweet, two extra shots.
Bold. Sharp. Reads as the groom’s drink at first sip.
The Toast
Brown-sugar oat cortado with a dusting of cinnamon on top.
The one for the parents’ table.
The After-Party
Espresso tonic with lemon zest, served in a chilled coupe.
For the last hour. They’ll remember it.
When the bar closes, you get a private link, a one-issue magazine designed around your day. Choose the cover: your photograph full-bleed, your initials pressed into a plate, or the classic masthead. Star the guest notes you love and they lead the page; tuck away anything that shouldn’t be there. Then comes the share pack, little cards made from your night, a friend’s note with their name on it, the count of cups poured, sized for a story or a post. Save it as a PDF, or just keep it. It’s yours.
Want it private? Put a four-digit code on it and only the people you give it to can open it. The cart can leave a note of its own on the page too, a few lines signed by the person who poured.
No line. Your colors. A drink with your name on it. A keepsake when it ends.
20–40 min in line, depending on size
Order from your seat, we text when it’s ready
Names misheard over the music
Printed cup label, every modifier on the sticker
Square QR or chalkboard
Your palette, your fonts, your welcome note
Whatever the barista pre-set
Four drinks named after the two of you
A receipt
A magazine-style keepsake, photos, notes, numbers
Lost in the camera roll
Collected by the cart, shareable with one tap
An email thread and three PDFs
One link with the quote, the contract, the invoice and your page
Booking a coffee cart? Ask them about Alongside. They set it up; you get a private link to make it yours. Booked already? Send them this page.