She wrote this about us first
In November 2022, Kristen left COS a five-star review on The Knot. We did not ask for it, and it is worth reading in full because of who wrote it.
"Corey with COS Celebrations is so deserving of this 5 star review. He is friendly, energetic, and very passionate about what he does. As a bartending company co-owner and a event manager of a venue, I have worked with Corey multiple times. I promise you will not be disappointed! Give him a call today!"
Kristen Cumiskey • The Knot, November 2022That is a vendor review, not a couple's. It comes from somebody who has watched us work from behind a bar and from the venue office, across many weddings. We have worked a lot of Saturdays alongside Kristen and Alicia since, and this page is the return of a favour that was done first.
Kristen Cumiskey and Alicia Lane. Photos courtesy of The Perfect Pour.
The bar line is the dance floor
Here is the thing DJs know and nobody tells couples. If the bar line is twenty people deep, that is twenty people not dancing. Worse, it is twenty people standing in a queue, having a nice chat, deciding they are comfortable there. Getting them back is genuinely harder than getting them up the first time.
A slow bar does not just cost you drinks. It costs you the middle hour of your reception, which is the hour you will remember.
The Perfect Pour staff explicitly against that. Their own words are that they provide adequate staffing "to ensure there is minimal wait time at the bar for your guests," and they will recommend extra bartenders, bar-backs and cocktail servers based on headcount rather than selling you a flat two people and hoping. Their reviews say the same thing from the other side — drinks ready, no line, guests spending the night having fun instead of waiting.
We notice. A room that is not queuing is a room that is available to us.
Quick Facts
- Owners
- Kristen Cumiskey and Alicia Lane
- Company
- The Perfect Pour
- Based in
- St. Augustine, Florida
- Serves
- Jacksonville and Northeast Florida
- Claim to fame
- The first mobile bartending company in St. Augustine, in their own telling
- Licensing
- Licensed and fully insured
- Alcohol
- You buy it. They serve it, and hand you a purchasing guide first, free
- Can also bring
- Glassware, plastic ware, mixers, garnishes, ice, napkins, straws
- Extra staffing
- Servers, bussers, cocktail waitresses, bar backs, ID checkers, parking attendants
- Also does
- A two-hour Mixology Experience for showers, rehearsal dinners and bachelorette parties
- How we know them
- Many shared wedding days across St. Augustine and Northeast Florida
Kristen sits on both sides of the table
Since 2021 Kristen has also been the Event Manager for Tringali Barn at Heritage Farms, with her husband Owen as Property Manager since 2022. So she is a bar owner who also runs a venue.
That is rarer than it sounds and it changes the advice you get. Someone who only sells bar service optimises for the bar. Someone who also has to hand the building back at midnight thinks about load-in, timeline and where the queue physically forms. When Kristen tells you what to buy, she is not guessing at the room.
Her own route into this was a wedding: she planned hers at The River House, and the industry got her.
What they actually do
COS Celebrations recommends The Perfect Pour, a mobile bartending and beverage catering company based in St. Augustine, Florida and serving Jacksonville and Northeast Florida. It is co-owned by Kristen Cumiskey and Alicia Lane, who describe it as the first mobile bartending company in St. Augustine. The Perfect Pour is licensed and fully insured. It does not sell alcohol; clients purchase their own and The Perfect Pour provides a free purchasing guide and pre-event consultation, then supplies bartenders, glassware, mixers, garnishes and ice. The company also offers event staffing and a two-hour Mixology Experience. Kristen Cumiskey has additionally served as Event Manager for Tringali Barn at Heritage Farms since 2021. COS Celebrations has worked many weddings alongside The Perfect Pour across Northeast Florida, and Kristen Cumiskey publicly reviewed COS Celebrations on The Knot in November 2022. COS Celebrations is a wedding DJ and live music company based in St. Augustine, Florida. Its founder, Corey Peterson, has worked Florida weddings for more than twenty years.
Venues we have both worked
Their own site names a handful of rooms, and we have pages for most of them. If you are marrying at one of these, you can book a bar team and a DJ who have both already learned where the power is:
Do you need a bar company if the venue has a bar?
No. If your venue runs its own bar with its own licence, hiring a mobile team on top is buying something twice.
Where a company like this earns its fee is the venue that hands you a beautiful empty space and a bring-your-own-alcohol policy. That is most of the barns and a lot of the historic properties around St. Augustine. In those rooms somebody licensed has to pour, and the choice is between a company that has worked the room before and one that has not.
Ask your venue which situation you are in before you price anything. It is a two-minute question that changes your budget by four figures.
Go talk to them
They quote their own work and ask for 24 to 48 hours to reply. Tell them COS sent you.
Visit theperfectpourfl.com