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Drink menu
Hi ladies,
We're throwing a surprise 30th anniversary party for our parents and want to have a limited bar menu, with popular/easy drinks. Any ideas? So far we have: Gin & Tonic, Rum & Coke, Old Fashioned, and Margarita on the rocks. Any suggestions are much appreciated...TIA! 
Re: Drink menu
Are you hosting this in a home or in a bar/restaurant? Either way here are some of my thoughts:
An Old Fashioned is neither easy or popular. At least not in my parents circle or in any bar I ever worked. You've got odd ball ingredients and you have to muddle the sugar.
You've already included drinks using bourbon, gin, tequila, and rum. Limiting the mixers doesn't make life easier for a bartender, but it does limit a guests choices.
I assume you will be offering assorted soft drinks, all of which could be used as mixers. I'd nix the margarita (and the tequila overall), add vodka to the bourbon and gin, some OJ, cranberry juice, and vermouth. Your guests will be able to order anything they want or will be able to easily mix a drink for themselves from that.
If you want a premixed or signature drink ask your parents what they like. My parents (and everyone in my family really) would love to have a coffe station with Jameson's, Bailey's, and real whipped cream to dollop on top.
100% agree with pp. If you like the idea of a signature drink, go for it and then just get standard liquors and standard mixers. We went to a wedding once with just 4 cocktails--the "old, new, borrowed, blue" idea. Here's the problem: they had diet soda and they had liquors but they refused to mix them because that wasn't on the drink menu. Inconvenient for most guests, sure, but not "allowing" that mixture left a friend with Type I diabetes completely without a drink.
Easier on everyone to just offer the basics without setting up what the combinations are.
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LOL. Are you from Waukesha, WI? If so, then an old fashioned is incredibly popular. I know it is my go-to mixed drink. If you want to do typical, maybe skip the margaritas?
I would provide standard booze: Whiskey, Brandy, Vodka, Gin, Rum
With standard mixers: Coke, Diet Coke, Tonic, Seltzer, 7up, Sweet n Sour, Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice
I didn't even notice that the op was from Waukesha, I think there is only one, but also thought of old fashions being so-midwest ... and delicious.
Where are you having the party? What are you serving?