Favors
Opinion on place setting doubling as favors
Me and my fiance are wine lovers....and we were thinking of doing this. We found a website (valencialiquor.com) that has mini wine bottles and you can pick from numerous different wines. We were thinking of using these as seating assignments (using a fancy paperclip stuck down in the cork with a card attached to the top with the persons name and table number) which would doube as their favor. I was also going to make keychains out of used wine corks (which I can get from a local wine store) and leaving them at each place setting. Does this sound like a good idea?
Also, I am having several children at the reception...and am having trouble thinking of a "favor" for them. Any ideas?
Also, I am having several children at the reception...and am having trouble thinking of a "favor" for them. Any ideas?
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Re: Opinion on place setting doubling as favors
Because many of these mini bottles have screw caps rather than cork, you may want to try something like ^(link)^ this photo holder as a way to attach your escort cards. Even if the bottle has a cork, you would not want to risk compromising the seal of the bottle with anything inserted into it.
There are many variaitons of this type of DIY photo holder.
Another suggestion would be to make simple wine charms as opposed to key chains. My personal opinion, however, is that the wine itself would be sufficient as a favor. Your idea sounds very cute.
For the children, could you offer sparkling juice or water instead?
http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/wine-cork-escort-cards/page/2
If you have access to lots of corks, this link shows another cute way to incorporate them with your escort cards. You could use one large wine bottle on each table to indicate the table numbers......http://www.weddingchicks.com/2009/06/02/free-wine-lables/
I am not sure what type of centerpiece you are considering, but I have seen many variations on this theme that look really nice and would tie in with your favors:
http://www.curbly.com/users/diy-maven/posts/9944-six-heavenly-wine-bottle-centerpieces
If you want to get them for your place settings, can you change out the labels and add each person's name to a label?
Just because you saw it on Four Weddings, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
My FI and I are doing the place cards in wine corks. (similar to these but we are making them ourselves from the corks our families are collecting for us... http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=wine+cork+place+card+holders&hl=en&prmd=imvns&resnum=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1006&bih=668&wrapid=tlif132829822190510&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=12731742047956270148&sa=X&ei=9jgsT4zoMIjs0gGr_qSRCw&ved=0CHcQ8gIwAA#) Then at each place there will be a bottle of red or white or sparkling cider that we are bottling ourselves. We recently picked up the bottles and the favors will come to just over a dollar each. The bottles are similar to these...http://www.sks-bottle.com/340c/fin18aa.html but we picked them up at a local bottle distributor. We will then put a nice label that matches our invites on the front and a small label with the type of wine over the top (like an old tax stamp)
My only thing would be to try to use corks from the wine you uncorked instead of buying them. Or you could even ask your local restaurants and reception site if they could keep the corks for you.