DIY: An Old Fashioned Soda Bar

Add a little fiz and some retro fun to your wedding with a soda bar! (expert advice)

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Old fashioned sodas add a fun and playful element to an event and can even be used as part of your decor! There are so many to reasons to love them: they are in pretty glass bottles, lots of times with original vintage-y logos on the packaging, and they are made with pure sugar cane, delicious! Plus you'll hear your grandpa excited when he finds his favorite soda from when he was nine! 

We love them all set up arranged according to color or you can even just buy the color of flavors that go with your wedding. Instead of keeping them on ice, refrigerate them up until right before and line them up on a table or bar for maximum effect.

The hardest part of having old fashioned sodas is sourcing them. They can be difficult to come by. If you live in California BevMo has a very large selection of specialty sodas (and even ships them online if you can't find something local). Gourmet delicatessens and stores can also have good selections and we've even got lucky before at warehouse stores like Costco.

Add some fizz to your wedding day with gourmet sodas! 

Member Comments

61 31 9 jadedpanther

11/05/2009 at 08:10 am Katie...if you are curious about the sign, I made a mockup in publisher (in my colors) and could send you the file to manipulate. Let me know.

249 63 76 Brown2Green

11/01/2009 at 04:09 pm This is another vintage idea that will add a nice element to my wedding.  All I need now is a popcorn machine.  And someone to make a vintage, early cinema movie of how we met and my Harlem Nights 1920s theme would be complete

61 31 9 jadedpanther

10/30/2009 at 09:13 am You could totally make that sign using publisher (use the shapes to make the lines)...then have someone like kinkos put it on posterboard or something for you. Totally doable.

1 7 0 katierose8

10/13/2009 at 10:14 am I LOVE the green and white Soda Shop label... any ideas of where to find somehting like that?  I am not that crative to figure it out myself!