IT’S YOUR PARTY

Since 2014, Craft Event Bar has been perfecting the event bar experience, and is proud to offer Dayton’s most comprehensive and KNOWLEDGABLE service.

We’re more than pretty faces with liquor liability insurance and a website; Craft Event Bar is ten years of solid event experience

WE HOLD OHIO LIQUOR PERMITS AND CAN PROVIDE ALL OF YOUR BEER AND WINE.

We welcome you to the Cherry Street Bottle Shop and Cocktail Kitchen, where you can place your beer and wine order with guidance from our buyers. When we’re bartending, we deliver to your event for free.

WE HAVE A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN AND CATERING PERMITS JUST FOR PRODUCING CUSTOM COCKTAILS.

Plan a signature cocktail tasting and design something just for your event. Batched cocktail research and development has been at the center of our pursuits since the start.

WE PARTNER WITH OUR FRIENDS AT HAYNER DISTILLING TO CREATE OUR ONE-OF-A-KIND COCKTAILS

The local distillers at Hayner allow us to choose and blend spirits with flavor profiles that give our cocktails their smooth character.

CRAFT EVENT BAR COLLECTIVE IS DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE:

CRAFT EVENT BAR COLLECTIVE AIMS TO PROVIDE CELEBRATORY EXPERIENCES THAT DELIGHT OUR CUSTOMERS WITH HIGH-QUALITY OFFERINGS, COMPLEMENTED BY IMPECCABLE SERVICE FROM OUR PLANNERS, BARTENDERS, AND DJS. THERE IS NOTHING WE WON’T DO TO IMPRESS YOU.

founded by career bartender Carly Witmer, Craft Event Bar has been bartending big events since 2014, debuting a batched cocktail menu in 2015, and adding DJ services in 2017. the Collective was realized in 2021 when Sara Studebaker committed her planning skills to the enterprise. their years together have allowed them to perfect services through supportive collaboration. Carly works mainly as DJ Carolina Carter, while Sara keeps busy planning celebrations down to the last detail. They are always looking for ways to improve and expand offerings, which is why they took the leap into a brick-and-mortar location on Cherry Street, the CHerry Street Bottle SHop & Cocktail Kitchen, which opened in 2023.

Shannon Dixon and Shelby Meadows, formerly of Bubbly Bartending, joined forces with the collective in early 2024 and are now central to the operation. Shannon books and manages event bars at our favored venues, and can be found occasionally staffing the bottle shop or providing service in the cocktail lounge. Shelby spends a lot of her time in our kitchen, where she creates cocktail recipes and shares them with our followers on Facebook and Instagram; she also opens our cocktail lounge to the public on Fridays when she’s not at another event. CEBC’s merger with Bubbly Bartending has solidified the management of our multi-faceted business.

Being a collective not only makes us all better professionals, it allows us to enjoy the company of one another wherever we work. Having the support of a capable and motivated team means that each of us knows we can depend on one another, so that you can depend on us, too.