Favors
Depression over Glass Bottle Soda
I saw the personalized label Jones Soda and thought that would make an excellent wedding favor. Then I saw how much they cost and changed my mind 
I would still really like to give out glass bottled soda as a favor (especially because we're doing a cash bar and guests will have to pay for anything other than water, coffee, or iced tea. I know it's bad etiquette, but whatever.) Anyway, FI is basically addicted to Mountain Dew, so I thought it would be cute to offer that, and then maybe Pepsi or something for those who don't "do the Dew." But after an extensive search, it turns out that Mountain Dew is no longer made in glass bottles, anywhere.
Then I tried to find just new, empty glass bottles that I could fill with Mt. Dew. But all I came up with was some weirdo bottle manufacturers in China.
There are other glass bottle sodas out there, but I have no idea what they taste like, and I'm trying to find something quite cheap (about $1 per bottle). Finding about 200 new, clean, empty bottles would be the best, but I'm not having any luck.
Does anyone have alternative ideas? I thought about just doing plastic bottles of Mt. Dew and Pepsi and covering the labels with personalized DIY ones, but that just doesn't seem very classy...
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Re: Depression over Glass Bottle Soda
But to answer your question, I live in Texas which is apparently the home of the oldest Dr. Pepper plant and lots of girls here do the Dr. Pepper in glass bottles.
http://www.olddocs.com/product.aspx?id=145&up1=273&up2=275&up3=269&cat=Drinks&subcat1=Dr%20Pepper&subcat2=Made%20with%20Sugar
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http://beveragesdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-happened-to-mt-dew-online.html
Another thought: will your reception venue be ok with you bringing in soda? Lots of venues do not allow any outside food or drink to be brought in.
anyway off my rant. Dont do the soda favor if you are not providing soda at the reception. Yah it will be a hit for the fact that everyone will prob drink it while there. I say provide soda with the meal and just place some chocolate kisses and hugs on the table for favors or something.
Will you only have enough favors for one soda per person? If you are expecting people to be at our reception for a few hours (or more) they are probably going to want to drink more than one soda.
I personally would not take home an empty soda bottle with someone else's names/wedding date/etc on it. But that's just me.
I'm a little confused on how someone would reuse the bottle as a vase? The glass soda bottles I am thinking of do not have a very wide mouth so I would find it difficult to reuse as a vase.
Take the money you'd spend on favors, and include free soda at your wedding. People won't miss the favors, and won't even comment on the lack thereof, but they will comment on having to pay for a Pepsi.
As for using a soda bottle for a vase? That pretty much ended for me after college. Sorry.
[QUOTE]Thanks for your opinions. You can stop now. I get the idea.
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We sure can stop. Luckily this is an American run message board and freedom of opinion is always allowed unless if infringes upon another person's right.
i'm glad that this thread was able to give you some opinions that you can use in the coming months while making wedding decisions. Good Luck & Congrats!
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If you are going to do the Mountain Dew in your own glass bottles, I would suggest making sure you enlist alot of help to package them right before the wedding. Why? When you open a bottle of soda, it is going to start going flat, and when you repackage the soda into another bottle, it will go flat even faster. I have been to an event where the host did this, and all the soda was flat within hours...
I like the idea of placing personalized litre bottles on the tables for guests that a previous poster had mentioned if you want to stick with soda as the favor. You also mentioned that you have been to a wedding at the venue before where they had soda in coolers. You could get pesonalized coolers of DIY coolers and put Mountain Dew cans in there?
I attended a wedding before where soda was not free at the bar, but it was a Coca-Cola themed wedding and they had the mini glass Coke bottles everywhere throughout the venue for free for the guests. They had them set up in metal/tin pails on stands. Cost wise, it was cheaper for the bride & groom to buy all the Coke bottles & personalized labels than it was to pay for the entire open bar would've been (their families are lushes and would've cost them a fortune) The venue only allowed two bar options, ALL cash or ALL open. There was no "free soda/water/tea/coffee but cash alcohol"... Since this does go against wedding etiquette... this venue is no longer in business.. I am sure there are more reasons why the place went under.. but I know alot of people wouldn't book with them for this reason.
I've never been to a wedding that offered soda, actually, that I remember. Maybe its not a big thing in the NW? I've been to ones that had tea, punch, coffee, etc. I don't think its a 'requirement' to have. If you have water and one other option (you mentioned iced tea), that's fine. There should be something besides water to toast with after all
Also for the above commenters, don't be so quick to dismiss the favor as nonessential/easy ditched for something else. While it's good to avoid favors no one is ever going to use either at the wedding or later, favors are a lovely token to guests thanking them for coming. Also, they can keep an over-the-top wedding from coming off as selfish, and are usually a good ice-breaker (especially hand made favors or treats). While they are not required, even something simple like a piece of chocolate is nice. One can always double duty favors (like the soda idea), such as using seed paper for escort cards so they have seeds to plant and remember the wedding by, or giving out fans to use on a hot day.