Weddingbee Blog

I like to multi-task. Even when it comes to centerpieces. Every table at the wedding will have three centerpieces; the outer two being purple vases filled with green and white hydrangea, and one centerpiece in the center (umm redundant much?) comprised of a green wine bottle with a single purple dahlia. So every table needs a green wine bottle. What else does every table need? A table number, of course. So rather than creating more work for myself, I decided to multi-task, and combine the two!

I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m rather thrifty (or “cheap” if you’d prefer) especially when it comes to things I’ll never use again. Centerpieces fall into that category. For the middle centerpiece we wanted a certain type of green wine bottle that has a unique shape… and also happens to house one of our favorite wines! So instead of buying a bunch of wine just to get the bottles (although that may have been more fun), we asked a local restaurant that sells this type of wine if they would keep the empty bottles! We’re picking up the final bottles this week. They’ve saved over 40 of them for us. And it cost us ZERO dollars. How’s that for thrifty?

Now that we have our wine bottle centerpieces, I’ve been working on how to make the bottles function as table numbers, as well. I looked to Miss Joey’s post for inspiration, and decided to use the same flourish pattern we’ve been using throughout the paper goods to liven them up a little. I put together a quick prototype to see what they would look like:

Not terrible, but definitely not perfect either. For the real thing I’ll add white cardstock behind the number to make it easier to read, and I’ll probably use words, rather than actual numbers to make it look a little fancier.

As always, a question for the group… do you think the gold label on the upper portion of the bottle needs to be removed?

Has anyone else considered making their centerpieces do double duty?