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My second DIY workshop location (parents’ home) is in full gear! I took care of all of my labeling responsibilities on Saturday night. First, the Jones soda labels for the rehearsal dinner favors:
Then… the water bottles for my OOT guest bags:
I’ve seen lots of people suggest buying the fancy waterproof labels for their bottles (which come at a substantial cost), which I’d only recommend if you’re going to be storing your bottles in a bucket of water at the reception. Otherwise, you can get the same effect by using normal paper!
I just bought glossy laser paper ($4/ream) at Staples and used two ZOTS to stick the labels to the bottle (Jones and the H20) and used a clear glue stick to seal the ends. Very easy to do (it took about an hour to do on my own while watching TV), and a super cheap way to personalize something!
Great job on the Jones Soda label!! Question on the water labels: Did you have to remove the kirkland labels first and if so, did that take a long time?
Red - It took about 10 minutes to get all of the labels off. They are only connected by a little bit of glue… which is VERY nice for this project!
Those look great! Kudos on your hard work. I love DIY stuff. Why pay so much when you can do it for cheap and at your leisure, while watching some tv? Genius!
Great job MISS Lemon! Soon to be Mrs! I agree they are easy and inexpensive. I didn’t bother using water proof labels either. I also used glue dots.
Red - It’s real quick. What’s nice is that the existing glue also helps keep your label on after the kirkland label is remoed.
Miss Lemon-did you print those labels with pictures from your home printer? The quality looks great if it is from your home printer. What program did you used to format the labels?
Those Jones bottles look so great! I wouldn’t have even thought someone DIY-ed them b/c they look so professional! Did you have to take the original Jones labels off first too? Was this difficult or easy like the Kirkland labels?
Ms. Lemon, you did an excellent job on the bottles! Same as Helen’s comment, could you share what program and template you used to format the labels? Thanks so much.
The Jones labels were pretty easy too… I used a knife to start the cut… but nothing past that!
I printed everything on a home color laserjet (HP) printer…. but it’s really the glossy paper that does the trick!
As for formatting, I used Adobe Illustrator. Hopefully I can share some of the templates I used after the wedding!!!
The blank template for the label can be downloaded here: http://bit.ly/GXspK
This is so awesome and such a great touch. I wanted to do themed tabled and I might be able to theme the bottles to each table. This just gave me so many ideas!
Miss Lemon now Mrs Lemon
I love love love this idea and have been trying to do it on my own.. For some reason the template isn’t opening for me can you repost it or send it to me and give me some pointers.. I need to do about 200 of them and I really want to do this
please help
Lindsey!
Could you please post the template that you used?
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Mrs. Lemon, Los Angeles/Monterey Age and Occupation in 2006: 26, Graduate Student (Public Policy) Fiance's Age and Occupation in 2006: 29, Environmental Consultant Engagement Date: April 7, 2006 Wedding Date: July 7, 2007 Venue: Rosary Chapel & Monterey Marriott, Monterey, CA About Me: My FI and I met online, but we like to tell people that we met at a "cookie shop" which is the technical location of our first encounter. He proposed exactly 1 year, 1 month and 6 days after our first date (it's the only part of his proposal speech that I remember), and we're planning long-distance from Los Angeles for a July wedding in my hometown of Monterey, CA. I have a passion for all things "cool, cute and quirky" and I enjoy video games, reading blogs (WeddingBee, trashy celeb, consumer & political) and crafting in my spare time, if I have any!
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