Top Shelf Bartending

We had top shelf at our wedding reception and everything went so smooth! They were very on top of everything through the planning process and everything was perfect on the day of! Would recommend!

We have used them for our holiday parties and special events and they are AMAZING! They arrive early and are very professional! They are also great at interacting with all of our employees!

We booked them because our venue was BYOB, and using Top shelf was such a seamless process! Everyone was super communicative and bartending services went so smoothly at our wedding. I never saw a line of more than 3 people at the bar since they were so speedy! A few months before the wedding, I gave them an estimated guest count and they came back with a menu that broke down exactly how much beer, wine and liquor we would need. Anything we didn't use they bought back! I would definitely recommend them for any event!

Top Shelf bartending was a great fit for our wedding! Their staff is super friendly and kind. They offer great value for a good price and flexibility. Would totally recommend going with them for your next event! Thanks a lot Top Shelf!

Top Shelf was one of our best decisions in our wedding planning process. Bre, Erin, and the Top Shelf Team were very responsive and kind from the get-go! We received our quote within the first couple of days and they gave us some space to digest everything which we LOVED. We were so impressed by their price by consumption plan because it gave us some flexibility with our overall wedding budget and amount of people we could invite. Our favorite thing about Top Shelf was their willingness and patience to make our bar selection exactly what we wanted. We switched out beer selections, added liquor, and even changed the number of bartenders up until the deadline. And seriously, the team was the most kind, helpful, and patient group we worked with! Highly recommend.

Look no further - book Top Shelf Bartending for your wedding right now!! Their team is AMAZING! From the planning process, to our tasting, to the actual wedding, and even cleaning up, Top Shelf was great to work with! Their drinks were delish and their service was even better! The owners, event planners, and bartenders were all a joy to work with!! Couldn't recommend them enough! My favorite part about them is they offer a package where they charge based off consumption, instead of per person, which makes them very affordable if you have a crowd that enjoys some beverages but doesn't over do it!

Very professional! Kept the lines to a minimum. Did a successful champagne toast pour in no time at all! Had three bartenders and they were so helpful!

Top Shelf was amazing to work with. Bre was very kind, and helped us customize our menu. The whole process was very organized. It was so nice having them as a full service alcohol provider and bartending service.

Great service! We had plenty of alcohol and ended up not having to pay as much in the end due to there being leftover unopened bottles. Our bartenders were great and friendly!

Amazing experience with Top Shelf! Professional bartenders, reasonable pricing, and great service! We would highly recommend!

This group was great. I personally didn’t ever interact with them because drinks were being handed to me but they were very good drinks lol. I got lots of compliments on them throughout the night and even after the wedding. They picked up when they could which was really cool and helped out so much in the end. Top Shelf is amazing because they also buy back whatever drinks weren’t opened which saved us some money as well! Such a great group!

We recently used Top Shelf as a vendor for our open bar! Our venue already came with bartenders so we didn't use need that but they were EXTREMELY helpful in coming up with what was needed for our reception. They came up with a great mix of drinks, helped decide what our signature drinks would be, and they drop off/pick up after the wedding is over. Anything you have left after can be picked up and refunded back! I highly recommend Top Shelf!!

Sometimes things just go the way you hoped they would, and Erin and the Top Shelf team didn't disappoint. From our first conversation, I felt confident that we were in good and I could trust that we were going to get the quality products and services that we wanted for my daughter’s wedding. Erin provided great counsel, was flexible to meet our specific needs, and the Top Shelf team were friendly, efficient, and trustworthy. I am so happy, we didn’t try to DIY with our wedding beverages. Top Shelf helped us to be totally present at our daughter’s wedding and not be concerned with anything but celebrating a very special occasion.

Top Shelf was so easy to work with. They put together a personalized plan for us which included two signature drinks. All of our guests complimented how nice and fun the bartenders were which we were thrilled about. At the end of the reception, they bought back any unopened alcohol and credited our bill for the difference which was a huge money saver for us.

I cannot recommend Top Shelf enough. They were so communicative, flexible, and positive throughout the entire process. They were always patient and available to answer our questions. They made any changes we wanted to the menu along the way, are provided an updated estimate each time. Their estimation was almost spot-on, they really are experts at this! The bartenders on the day-of were professional and efficient. They provided two in-door bartenders and an outdoor bartender which was so helpful with our venue set-up. Overall, we had an amazing experience with Top Shelf and would HIGHLY recommend them.

We had a great experience with Top Shelf for our wedding! The cool thing about them is they own a liquor store and provide bartending services. We compared options of going through a local liquor store for delivery and hiring separate bartenders, and found Top shelf to be very reasonable in pricing. It was worth it for us to go through them to handle everything from the alcohol, cups/garnishes, and bartending! They were great leading up to the day and very patient, as we changed our menu a few times. The night of, they did an amazing job tending to our guests, making our signature drinks, keeping water dispensers full. Overall, I would highly recommend top shelf for your event or wedding!

Cynthia at Top Shelf bartending was amazing at our wedding! She did a super job keeping the drinks flowing for the wedding party and all the guests. She even helped us clean up during and after the event! We highly recommend Top Shelf for their affordable price and professional service.

Top Shelf Bartending Services were fantastic to work with. The staff was so helpful with planning exactly what we wanted to serve and gave great advice and suggestions. The bartender that hosted our event was fun and happy to be at our event. We live out of town, and they took care of everything making our evening so enjoyable.

Top Shelf Bartending is just that....Top Shelf!! We used them for our wedding reception. Erin was very professional and responsive from the initial contact until the very last email. Tiffany was an AMAZING bartender!!! Our guest kept her on her toes and she did it all with a smile :) We would highly recommend Top Shelf Bartending for your wedding or any event!!

We used Top Shelf Bartending for our wedding reception in March 2023 and they did a fantastic job at a great price! They worked with us to create a menu of speciality cocktails as well as a selection of beer, wine, liquor, and mixers...and they were even accommodating when I made a last minute change to the menu! Our speciality drinks were awesome (sangria, old fashion, bee's knees, and port light) and our guests raved about the service. We also also appreciated the personalized service we received as we planned out the various aspects for our event's beverage service. On the day of the event the bartenders were awesome and our guests were well cared for and always hydrated. The pricing is hard to beat. The ease of having them provide everything while also not charging you for unused product is a huge benefit to the budget. They are professional from start to finish and we didn't need to worry about anything! We highly recommend Top Shelf Bartending!

We hosted a retirement party and decided to hire Top Shelf to bartend the event. Best decision! They are so professional, handled all the drinks after an in-depth consultation and even made recommendations for us so we could focus on enjoying our night. Kimberly was SO awesome! She kept a watchful eye on Vern (the guest of honor) and I all night and never let our cups run dry. She brought Vern’s drink of choice and water to him as his sat down with food. She gave us helpful tips with setting up the food and games. She helped keep things running smooth even outside of serving drinks. We had such a great time and she was a ROCK STAR!!

Top Shelf was so easy to work with and provided great suggestions along the way! By using Top Shelf, we saved ourselves a lot of money on alcohol, but were able to provide more and better options- great wedding hack. High recommend working with them.

Top Shelf Bartending provided the alcohol for my wedding reception. They were extremely responsive, professional and kind. Erin took the time to have a call with me to figure out numbers and even pulled together enough champagne for 250 people on the day of due to my forgetfulness. 100% recommend this team!!

Highly recommend Top Shelf Bartending service. They recently serviced my wedding. We were extremely impressed by Chad, the bartender. He kept all of our guests’ drinks full and flowing, as well as being super fun and personable all night long. The event manager and owner were also easy to work with through the bartending planning process and easily pivoted when we adjusted our alcohol request. Would not hesitate to use again if needed.

What an awesome team...from planning to execution. One less thing to have to think about in wedding preparation. They were always available for questions in the planning stage and went way beyond expectations in execution at our event. Fun team. Bartenders got along with all guests and right there with a glass of champagne as if on cue. Very, very affordable. Thank you!!

We Hired KC Top Shelf for our daughter's wedding on October 1, 2022. They did an excellent job supplying all the liquor and the set-ups for the evening. They delivered, prepped , and then later came and removed all the liquor that was unused, taking half used cases back with them and we were very happy with our final tabulations!!! Can't say enough about KC TOP Shelf!!

Working with top shelf was the absolute best! From making sure i had the right amount of everything to communication. They check off every box you might thing you need for a wedding. Bartender was so nice, made sure there was plenty on hand the whole night. I highly recommend this company for your special day or any event you may need bartending services for!!

They were so easy to work with! We did signature drinks and an open bar, they helped make sure we had everything we needed including beer from my favorite local brewery. The bartenders were fun and fast, we never had a line. They were fantastic!

Our wedding venue, 8th & Main, partners with this company for bartending services so I didn’t research anything myself but I could not have been happier with the service. Erika was our bartender for the night and everyone loved her. She gave great service. She made sure my husband and I got drinks almost as soon as we made eye contact with her. It was like magic! 😂

We chose Top Shelf for our wedding bar as a recommendation of the venue. It was easy to work with them from the first moment. Bre always responded to my emails on time and all my questions. I like that they offer different options for bartending your wedding (you can bring your own alcohol or buy it from them). We decided to buy everything from them, they have a long selection of beer, wine, and spirits and are open to finding other things for you if you want to. Their prices are good too and we even got a refund because we didn't consume everything. The service of Darcie on the wedding day was outstanding. She was very kind and helpful to us and our guests. Thank you!

I work in the wedding industry and I have worked with Top Shelf many times over the years. I knew I wanted to hire them for my wedding before I was engaged, it was always a given! I didn't even contact other bartending companies. Top Shelf has an amazing reputation in the KC wedding industry. They are professional and very experienced. There's no one else I'd trust more! Their prices are really reasonable and the entire process is easy and straightforward. They help with selecting the alcohol and creating the menu. We did a full bar and we added on a signature drink. They had lots of options for fun signature drinks. We loved both of our bartenders and our guests did too! Everything related to bartending ran so smoothly and we were beyond happy with their service. We highly recommend Top Shelf!! Hire them for your event, you won't regret it!!

They were very flexible in determining our drinks menu with us and helped us figure out what we needed and in what quantities. The bartender we had did a great job keeping everyone happy!

We worked with Top Shelf for the open bar at our wedding. We worked with Bre who helped us create a menu and even helped us have our favorite craft beers available to be served at our wedding! We really appreciate the effort she put into making our day special! The bartenders that served drinks at our wedding were very friendly and professional. We would highly recommend Top Shelf!

I don’t drink, so I actually had almost no interaction with them, but I only heard great things! There was never much of a wait for drinks, and they remembered what people ordered. I also really appreciate their suggestion about having the water on-hand!

This service was excellent! From the planning, to the preparation, to the service itself. They had it all under control and was one task I knew was in good hands that I did not have to worry about. Bar tenders Tiffany and Chad were top notch and were excellent to our guests!! Highly recommend and would absolutely use again!

Top Shelf was great to work with! Erin listened to the signature drinks I wanted (we had three), and advised alcohol to have in our open bar. They were very professional and proactive in their communication! At the end of the wedding, they returned all unopened bottles and subtracted them from our cost. This helped us save about $600!!

We used Top Shelf for our wedding day and they were amazing! They made the planning process super easy, and were fast day of. We did not have to take care of anything from set up, to icing down drinks, this took so much of a headache away from us. You will be super happy to delegate this entire process to Top Shelf!

What a great service Top Shelf provides. We already had bartenders at our venue, we only needed the makings of a bar. Top Shelf supplied all the alcohol, mixers, garnishes, cups, napkins etc. They delivered it and picked up wasn't used. No fuss on my part which was great! Erin was easy to work with, I would recommend Top Shelf to anyone who is planning an open bar, they take the mystery out of what is needed.

Our wedding planner suggested Top Shelf. They were so easy to work with, very responsive and helpful with suggestions. The bartender was very friendly and a joy to work with the day of the wedding. High recommend! 10 stars+++

You will not have to worry about a thing if you hire Top Shelf as your bartenders! They were professional, on time, and fun! Our guests all loved them. During the booking process they made everything really easy and even gave helpful suggestions as to what our guest count would typically drink as to not under or over buy. What was even more awesome: if you do overbuy, you don’t have to pay for anything unused. Would recommend the Top Shelf team to all my fellow brides!!

I loved working with Top Shelf Bartending and their staff. From the time we hired them, they were professional, reasonable, flexible. On event night, they were kind, professional, helpful and knowledgeable. I will be hiring them for future events!

This bar service was awesome! Our ceremony was running late and they came and found me and brought me a drink which was so nice! They would find the bride and groom all night to make sure we always had a drink, made a run for us when beer was running low and kept the party going. I can't say enough nice things about this vendor!

Top shelf was a preferred vendor by our venue and I totally understand why. Everything we needed, they were a step ahead. Absolutely amazing. And they would come up and make sure I was happy throughout the night and really made everything worry free. Their comfort with the venue also made it seem so much better. They were awesome!!!

Top Shelf did an amazing job for my wedding at the Rhapsody back in November! They were really great to work with leading up to the wedding. Responsive, professional, human, and very kind and worked with us. The night of the wedding, our bartender was wonderful! We had so many compliments from guests that the bartending service was amazing. I feel bad - I sat down to eat at the reception and I hadn't even thought to get alcohol yet, and some lady I didn't recognized asked if I wanted anything to drink, and I think I just asked for a water. I was slightly confused that some rando was asking what I wanted to drink, but I later realized it was the bartender!! That's on ME for not noticing or introducing myself before that! She was attentive all night and was very quick and efficient. Unfortunately our cake topper had taken a tumble and shattered everywhere, and we ended up putting the parts back on top the cake. She thought it was so funny, took a picture, and made it a point to find me before I left to send me the picture! She was so sweet, funny, and a great person for the crowd we had. Thank you Top Shelf for making our night so fun!!!

Such an awesome bartending service! Very friendly workers, and totally fair prices.

Top Shelf was one of the highly recommended vendors from our wedding venue and I completely understand why. We received SO MANY comments from our wedding guests about how great our bartenders are, I have officially lost count. They were so great with all of our guests and made every interaction fun. They even helped out with unrelated things throughout the night. When our ring bearer (he's 3) decided he didn't want to stand in line to walk down the aisle, they bribed him with a cookie! When my mom needed help loading gifts into her car, they helped her load a cart and wheel it out to the parking lot. They even remembered our guests' drink orders and had the drinks ready as guests approached the bar. They did so much to ensure the entire reception - not just the bar services - went smoothly, and that was so appreciated. When my husband and I started planning our wedding, we knew we had two primary goals for the reception: 1 - we wanted to people to dance, and 2 - we wanted and open bar. I spent months trying to price out alcohol on my own and always ended up feeling like I wouldn't be able to get what I wanted within my budget. Top Shelf helped me better plan for the right number of people so that I could get the bar choices I wanted and stay within my budget. I can't recommend them enough; they truly helped make our reception fun and memorable.

This was the vendor we needed to use for our venue and they were great to work with. The packages are great and the service was wonderful.

My husband & I got married 10/16/2021 & hired Top Shelf for our alcohol & bartending as our venue let us bring whoever we wanted in. They did such a great job on our wedding night! My husband & I were able to go to Top Shelf prior to our wedding to do a tasting for signature cocktails & I am so glad that we did - they were amazing!! It was such a great experience & we were able to talk through all wedding logistics. We were insistent that we were going to have a party group who liked to drink & Top Shelf provided the perfect amount of alcohol where we never ran out but pretty much used all of it! I would definitely recommend them if you are looking for super friendly bartenders, awesome drink options, and the ability to bring in your own alcohol!

Excellent service! We ran out of beer and they went out and got more for us no problem. Also affordable, highly recommend.

Used Top Shelf for my daughter's Nov. 20, 2021 wedding in Kansas City (130 people). The 2 bartenders were over the top professional. As quests came up they remembered what people were drinking and would ask do you want another xyz? One of them asked me for the bride and groom’s favorite drinks and had them ready the minute they arrived. Also one of the gals spotted someone who had walked in off the street and checked in with us to make sure we knew who they were (we didn’t). I really appreciated everything they did to make the night flawless. I’d highly recommend them--so easy to work with and quite reasonable price-wise.

Amazing bartending service, great variety of wines and beers and good customer service. I’m sure they have many good bartenders, but I can’t imagine one better than Darcie. Darcie provided next-level service to me and our guests, and took initiative to refill drinks for the bride and groom and memorize our guests favorite orders throughout the night. Thank you Top Shelf, and thank you Darcie!!!

Top Shelf was so great to work with! They did both our Welcome Drinks event in Downtown Kansas City, and our Wedding on a Private Ranch. We asked them to make Welcome Drinks for all of our guests (which served as escort cards), and they knocked it out of the park! They did an amazing job all around.

Top shelf was extremely easy to work with and very professional! The way their paying process worked was awesome. They will make your wedding day stress free.

Top Shelf did an amazing job! We had approximately 200 guests and everyone was served drinks quickly! For the wedding party, there was a staff member that would check on us to make sure we were taken care of! As the bride, I never had to go up to the bar to get anything! They were also punctual, kind, and quick to respond to emails!