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Wine Bottle Favors
I was thinking about giving a bottle of mine and FI favorite wine as our wedding favor. I found a site that has mini bottles and was thinking about giving to each guest since they are really a single serving. My mom doesn't like the idea of the mini bottles and said we should buy the regular size and give one per couple. First wanted to know what people think about the mini bottles. Also, has anyone done the regular size bottles and know a site or distributor that offers discounted wine?
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Re: Wine Bottle Favors
Just something to think about...
we were thinking of bottling our own wine and putting a label on it, but it came out to be way too expensive, but it was a good idea! so without totally letting the idea go, maybe we could do an inexpensive wine, i love two buck chuck!!!!
I love the idea of either - I think I would prefer the larger bottle as a guest if given a choice but wouldn't think twice about it if I was given the mini. FI did mini bottles as favors for my surprise 40th birthday and everyone loved them - if he hadn't done that for my 40th I would be doing it for the wedding - but instead we are doing caramel apples in keeping with our fall theme!
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Never thought of the hall possibly not allowing. I should definitelty ask about that one. Out of curiosity, which hall are you using?
I really like this idea as well... we were thinking of doing the single serve bottles as well with our own labels!
The only problem with one per couple is how do you distribute the wine? Are you going to put it on the table and if so, you will need to have place card settings. Might be easier if you use the bottles as escort cards - tie a little card around each with the name and table number?
[QUOTE]I am doing regular sized bottles. Trader Joe's sells Charles Shaw for 2.99 and they are actually really good. I tried them to see which ones I want to get. I think I am going to do Chardonnay and Cabernet so each couple can go home with a bottle of red and a bottle of white. I heard that the International ones are actually Yellowtail.
Posted by Denise91980[/QUOTE]
I'm doing the same! I'm going to do one per couple though.
[QUOTE]The only problem with one per couple is how do you distribute the wine? Are you going to put it on the table and if so, you will need to have place card settings. Might be easier if you use the bottles as escort cards - tie a little card around each with the name and table number?
Posted by leah2b[/QUOTE]
We are going to have the bottles of wine on the table. The venue suggested around the centerpiece, for we have tall candleabras. I am labeling each bottle with the couple's names, this way each couple will go home with a bottle. I will have extra there just in case someone grabs 2.
Denise -- 2BC isn't Yellow Tail (or at least I highly doubt there's any affiliation because Yellow Tail sued 2BC's maker last year for trademark infringement). I think 2BC is actually made by a Franzia company. One note: sometimes 2BC is very passable, and sometimes it isn't. It isn't consistent because it is made with whatever grapes are available to the company at the time. Sometimes that's a good batch and sometimes it is an eh batch. So before commiting you may want to buy a bottle, try it, and if you like it, go back very soon and buy up the cases.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wine Bottle Favors : We are going to have the bottles of wine on the table. The venue suggested around the centerpiece, for we have tall candleabras. I am labeling each bottle with the couple's names, this way each couple will go home with a bottle. I will have extra there just in case someone grabs 2.
Posted by lblumetti[/QUOTE]
how did you take off the label and put your own on without it looking sloppy? did you DIY the tables yourself? lemme know, sounds like a great idea!
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Wine Bottle Favors : how did you take off the label and put your own on without it looking sloppy? did you DIY the tables yourself? lemme know, sounds like a great idea!
Posted by andreapnyc[/QUOTE]
We didn't take the actual wine label off. I thought of it, but didn't know how to do it without making it look cheap. So I ordered these small gift tags, which are really stickers from <a href="http://www.weddingdivas.com/">www.weddingdivas.com</a>. They were really inexpensive. I've printed out all names and table numbers on clear lables and will cut them to place on top of the gift tag stickers. The area above the labels on the Charles Shaw bottles is a flat area, so I'm going to stick the labels there. I'll do some kind of ribbon most likely on the top.
These are the ones I got in green. They have so many cute ones to choose from!
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