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Our next contestant is Brook, who’s making wine bottle centerpieces, wine label table cards, and wine cork place cards. Each table at her reception will be represented by a wine. Check it out!

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For this project, I collected various sized wine bottles, along with other small bottles to create centerpieces.  Each table will have 3-4 bottles of various sizes and colors.  To prepare the wine bottles, I had to soak them in warm soapy water for about 24-48 hours. This helps to remove the labels much easier. Then I scrapped the labels using a razor blade.  Once this was done I did 2 mock up trials- one with my own garden flowers and a second time with Costco flowers.

Bottles waiting to be soaked:

Bottles soaking:

Finished bottles:

1st trial with my own garden flowers:

First mock design of table cards with store bought flowers. (I actually like my own garden flowers best!)

Once I completed the bottles, I was unsure what type of table cards I wanted to use.  Since I had an ample supply of wine corks (I planned to use these for namecards and easily have access to them since I am a bartender), I decided I would create WINE LABELS pertaining to different types of wines. So I began searching the internet for different types of wine labels- specifically I googled ‘unique wine labels’, ‘wine label images’, ‘wine labels’, and ‘vintage wine art’ to find results.  

Below are some of the sites that I visited to find the wine labels I used.
 
Wine Labels - This had the greatest amount of wine labels, so it was up to me to pick which ones I wanted, save the image to my computer for future use. (Which will be explained below)
 
Wine Library - This link allows you to search for a label by name
 
Art.com - vintage art posters
 
All Posters - more vintage art posters)
 
There’s one other wine label site that I visited that I am having a very hard time relocating! It’s one of the most important, because I changed one label to reflect our last name, and a couple others to reflect different wines than what was on the image.

Below are the finished table cards - I printed two of each then glued them together, so each side of the table could see them.

Close-ups - The image on the left was altered to read a different name and the colors were also changed in Microsoft Publisher. The image on the right is a Vintage Art poster. All images had to be resized to fit on half of a 5X7 card that I purchased from Michael’s (Variety Pack 5.5 x 7.5 cards in shades of cream, ivory, white and gray).

The image on the right was originally a different color and had Riesling as the wine. This was changed in Microsoft Publisher as well.

Here is a trial of the centerpieces with one of the table cards and my own garden flowers:

With placecards (which were purchased from Michaels of A.C. Moore (Paplin’s Basics - Card Enclosures 50 pack).  I will handwrite each guest’s name on the cards.

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If you’d like to submit your DIY project, send it to guest@weddingbee.com. See here for full contest details.