Wanna bring the cool factor to your next party, wedding or event? I highly recommend VIP Bartending if you want to bring things to the next level. Awesome bartending skills.....you want a speciality drink created you got it! Serving staff that aim to please no matter what the request is or how large your numbers are and all professionally done. Theme parties or just an air of class...the sky is the limit. Dave is the man who can make dreams come true. He did a wedding with over 400 guests that I attended which was through the roof; people were blown away! Dave has a knack for taking the stress out of the event and making it the party of all parties. Through his magic he managed to pull off something that most people will never relive again outside of a wedding. From what I seen that night, VIP is a must for your next event big or small. read more

When I was planning my wedding, I realized that in order to run a successful bar, we needed a bartender. Instead of forcing one of our friends to get a serving it right certificate and spend the night slinging drinks, I did some google searching and discovered VIP Bartending. I made a phone call and immediately got a hold of Dave, who is the owner of the company. Dave's mantra is making sure that your wedding bartending is as low stress as possible. He is a very busy man, but he always returns phone calls and emails without fail. He is fantastic at answering many different questions, and even looked over our liquor list to make sure we didn't buy too many spirits that would end up unopened at the end of the night. We got married in New Westminster, which has way more liquor license rules and fine print than any other city in the lower mainland. Dave not only answered our questions and clarified the rules, but returned many panicked phone calls. Some perks about his bartenders: they come with their own set of tools, and purchase all of the limes, lemons, and ice for the evening (which you pay for at the end of the night or a few days after the wedding). They can also provide a float for a cash bar. Our bartender was Chris, and he was super friendly, personable, and made delicious drinks. I'm sure he also enjoyed our chemistry theme with beaker mugs for drinking glasses and test tubes for shots. Now for the important part: price. The deposit required to book VIP Bartending is $50, which is payable however you like (cash, cheque, or credit card). For our wedding, we hired the bartender to work from 4 PM to 12 AM. Our bartender showed up at 3 PM to set up, and was finished after midnight. The final cost for his services was $209, or $22 an hour plus HST. If you decide to get VIP Bartending to buy the liquor license for you, the cost is $25 for the license and $75 for the service ($100 total). I will admit that the bartender was probably one of the least stressful aspects of our wedding, so Dave was definitely true to his word. If you need a bartender for an event, I highly, highly recommend VIP Bartending. read more

Great service for our wedding! The service before the wedding included helping us figure out how to supply and prep for the wedding. The bartender at our wedding was so friendly and ensured my husband and I never had an empty glass in our hands (including ensuring we had enough water to keep hydrated). Thank you Dave for answering all our questions before the event and linking us with an excellent friendly bar tender for our event!! read more

We hired VIP bartending for our pre-wedding party on September 11th. I had so many questions and we had to change our contract 3 times, but Dave was extremely patient and professional through the process. He brought his own bar table, set it up and served all our 120 guests very smoothly. We will definitely hire him again in the future. Thanks Dave! read more

A HUGE thank you to Megan and Michael from VIP Bartending! Our party was such a success because of these two and their attention to detail, amazing professional service and general awesomeness! If you are hosting a party in the future we highly recommended this company!! read more

Wow is all I can say, wow wow wow. I was a bridesmaid at my friends wedding last Saturday and i have never been more impressed by staff at a wedding. Our jobs as the right hand girls to the bride was to make sure everything ran smoothly but i soon realised after getting there everything was taken care of and i just could relax and enjoy my friends wedding day. On top of that i found out that the staff did everything from setting up all the tables, serving food, bartending, and even cooking the food. I will use them for my next party and would recommend them to anyone. The wedding i attended was about 200 guests and everything ran smoothly the staff was professionally dressed and i know the bride and groom were very impressed as well. A wedding is supposed to be the best day of your life and thanks to VIP bartending i know my friends wedding day was the best. She couldn't have asked for a more professional, polite and amazing staff. They truly made it a perfect wedding. read more

Service was good and bartenders were cute and kept the liquor flowing.

Dave was great at answering questions prior to the event! Since we were hosting our wedding at my parent's house, his answers helped us quite a bit. The bartenders that worked our wedding were great! I did hear from guests later that they were impressed they could say "I'll get the same as I got before" and they remembered. It's the little things. :) As a bride, I was pretty disappointed at the end of the night when I was told I owed them the final payment. I had paid all my final payments 3 months before, theirs included. Obviously on my wedding night, my efforts to find the email with the confirmation was futile nor should I have to even worry about something like this since I was so on the ball. My husband ended up paying them only to find out when we got home from our honeymoon that we had, in fact, paid in May. I realize it's just "one of those things" but it was incredibly disruptive and not dealt with well by the bartenders, really. All in all, their bar service was good though prior to that incident. read more