DIY Wedding Drinks: Make Your Own Watermelon Keg and Spiked Watermelon

My husband and I spent the morning digging in the dirt. We’re making raised beds in our backyard to plant veggies and berry bushes. Hauling wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of topsoil can cause a sudden craving for watermelon. Thankfully, I had some on hand.

Watermelon is fruit of the gods. There is nothing better than a cool piece of sweet watermelon after hours of manual, outdoor labour. Nothing better, except maybe a cold drink, served right out of a fresh watermelon!

When I stumbled on this DIY watermelon keg tutorial on evite.com, I couldn’t help but think that this would be perfect for an outdoor wedding - or any outdoor party for that matter!

Here’s what you need:

• 10-pound seedless watermelon
• Sharp knife
• Big spoon
• Big bowl
• Drill with a 1/2-inch drill bit
• 3/4-inch ball-valve faucet with a handle that’s easy to turn with one hand
• PVC-to-faucet adapter that will screw into the back of the faucet
• Rubber O-ring that fits the back of the faucet
• Blender
• Sieve
• Pitcher
• 1 1/2 cups rum
• 4 limes

The project takes about 90 mins and costs $20 (not including alcohol).

Read the full tutorial to make your own watermelon keg.

Or you can learn to make Lemon-Mint Vodka Spiked Watermelon over here. Sounds dangerous.

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Love this idea!!!

OMG I love this!!!!!  This is definetly makeing an apperance at my wedding!!!!!!!

i think i am gonna up it til a liter of rum, lol but so making one or two of these for our bbq reception, thanks for sharing :0

This is such a cool idea...I will have to this at the next BBQ we have at our house.