If your big day is coming up, I know you’re probably swamped with wedding planning. There’s so much to do, and so much to plan! You have to book the venue, find what you’re wearing, come up with the menu and food, come up with wedding dessert bar ideas, find the music, and so much more.

However, you often forget about some ideas that would be great, because there’s too much you have to think about.

So, I wanted to talk about something that not everyone includes in their big day, but it can definitely be a great idea - wedding coffee bars.

Coffee is not only limited to coffee shops, and wedding coffee bars are becoming more and more popular. They’re fun additions to wedding receptions, and they can be perfect for less formal weddings with unique additions. 

While you can definitely ask your caterer to create a coffee station and bring hot coffee to guests who ask for it, allowing your guests to make their own coffee can be such a fun experience for them, and it allows them to personalize their coffee to their liking. You can also have someone be next to the coffee station and make the coffees they choose from the display of add-ons.

So in this post, I’m sharing some coffee bar ideas that would be perfect for weddings.

10 Wedding Coffee Bar Ideas

Rustic Wedding Bar

If you’re having a rustic theme for your wedding, then your coffee bar should follow it as well. You can combine rustic with elegant and use wooden tables for the coffee bar, and decorate it with burlap table runners, vintage coffee mugs, coffee urn, and unique coffee pots. For the elegant element, you can add crystal glassware for cream and sugar packets. If you want to personalize the coffee bar for your wedding, personalized coffee sleeves or coffee cups with your and your partner’s names or wedding date can be such a cute addition. You can add rustic leaves and flowers to the coffee bar to decorate it even more, so it perfectly fits your wedding theme.

Mini Coffee Truck/ Trailer

You’ve seen food trucks at weddings, but have you seen coffee trucks? If you’re having an outdoor wedding, you can set up a mini coffee truck or trailer, and have a coffee barista inside to make your guests their coffee of choice. You can display different coffee mugs, different coffee syrup flavors, creamers, sugars, milk, and everything else needed to fully customize someone’s coffee drink. You can even add pumpkin spice if you’re having a fall wedding, since we all know that’s the most popular wedding flavor in that season. Then, they can simply ask for the coffee they love the most, and the barista can make it for them right there. 

Vintage Coffee Bar

If your wedding theme will be vintage, why not turn your coffee station into a vintage coffee shop? You can have a checkered floor around your station, vintage signs, and a vintage espresso machine as the centerpiece. To personalize it further, you can also name the coffee blends after significant events in your life. Plus, you can have custom coffee bags with your names, and have them displayed as wedding favors for your guests.

Interactive Coffee Display

Another cool idea for displaying your coffee is to set up an interactive coffee bar station. If you wanna have a great party or memorable events, having different stations or activity zones is always a plus. You can hire a barista to do a live coffee demonstration like showcase various brewing methods like cold brew or pour hand crafted coffee, and share tips that people can take home with them. It encourages your guest to interact with one another and strike up conversation.

Coffee Cocktails

You can have a coffee station with regular coffee for your guests to enjoy when they need a pick-me-up, but you can make the coffee station even more special by adding coffee martinis to it. Coffee martinis are becoming more and more popular at weddings, so it’s going to be a special touch for the grown-ups. You can have coffee martinis with your monograms on top for decoration, and have them displayed somewhere on the coffee bar. Then just make sure to have your caterers make more when needed.

Coffee Ground Wedding Favors

Serving coffee doesn’t have to be your only option for incorporating this staple at your wedding reception. I’ve seen bags of ground coffee beans be used as wedding favors or even escort cards for guests. So if you’re looking for another way to have a coffee station at your wedding, you may consider gifting coffee grounds to your guests in a beautiful display. To try it all together, you could try custom labeling like ”love is brewing”, “thanks for bean here”, “grounds for celebration”, ”let love brew”. 

Modern Coffee Bar

If your wedding will be very modern, your coffee bar should be, too. So, you can have a black and white coffee bar inside with big signs and modern decoration around it. The coffee bar itself can have big wheels that resemble a New York-style coffee cart from the streets. You can have modern-looking coffee cups or maybe even coffee glasses as they look very chic, and your monograms as decorations.

Mobile Coffee Bar Cart

If you wanna make a one of a kind impression at your wedding, book a mobile coffee bar cart. Mobile coffee bar carts are small enough to work for an indoor or outdoor wedding set up. They can also be accompanied by your very barista to whip up your favorite flavors or drinks whether that is a cappuccino, latte, iced coffee, or double espresso, etc. You may opt to use a coffee bar cart as a beautiful display for self serving coffee and tea and have it rented out for the day or build one of your own that you can set up yourself.

Espresso Martinis

Another fun wedding trend that’s on the rise involving coffee is to serve up espresso martinis. With this unique and fun coffee bar idea, you can display your boozy caffeinated beverage on the table and serve them during cocktail hour or offer them near the end of the party as a late night pick me up. I’ve seen these with the wedding couple’s monograms in the drinks, which if you do that would definitely add a personal touch.

Coffee Desserts

Have you ever tried coffee in dessert form? If you are wondering about another way to have a coffee display at your wedding, you might consider creating a beautiful and delicious dessert spread with coffee-infused treats. Think of coffee flavor ice cream/milkshakes, coffee cookies, coffee cheesecake, or even tiramisu. Desserts bring a unique way to sprinkle in accents of coffee without being overwhelming. Just make sure you have other dessert options (bonus if it’s more than just the wedding cake) for the children and non-coffee drinkers.

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