When the bride is friends with the royals and the guests include Pippa Middleton, one would expect the drinks of choice at a wedding to be champagne and fine wine.
Smirnoff Ice for guests at society wedding

Yet the marriage of Verity Evetts to Christopher Buchanan was different.
As the guests entered the St. Peter and Holy Cross church in Wherwell, Hants., they were offered a shot of what appeared to be gin, and were then plied with bottles of Smirnoff Ice as they left.