I’m a wine drinker. The occasional sparkling-wine drinker. I’d be a champagne drinker if I could afford to buy it all the time, but since I can’t, I’ll settle for the still stuff.
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Jack, on the other hand, is a whisky drinker. A tiny bit annoying, because I hate whisky. He will drink my wine and I will not touch any of his stash. Must keep reminding myself that this is better for my waistline.
As this wedding represents both of us, we decided to allow him the honour of naming our tables, and he had the ever so grand idea of naming them after his favourite single malts. Not because it adds a bit of his personality into the wedding, oh no, but because that means he has to finish more bottles before our wedding. You see—to display the names of our tables, we shall be putting flowers in the empty bottles and using them in our centrepieces.
I thought it was a great idea. There is no way he’ll drink 10–13 bottles of whisky before September, but luckily we have other whisky drinkers in the family and they are more than happy to donate their empty bottles to our collection.
We bought a little bouquet of flowers and popped a rose in a bottle to see what it would look like.
Success! It’s cute, don’t you think?? Of course this now means that we can only buy whisky that is in a cute bottle.
So far the Cardhu and Monkey Shoulder bottles are the prettiest—check out the Monkeys!
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Did anyone else do something that reflected their personalities in their centrepieces? Was it a joint thing or just one of you?
I LOVE this idea. How awesome. At my brother’s wedding they actually had a bottle of scotch at every table. This is an awesome way to incorporate the whisky without breaking the bank 
I might steal this idea! I love whiskey, my fiancé loves beer though. This is the cutest idea ever!
Cute! I LOVE whiskey, that’s my DRINK haha. Whiskey on the rocks! Love that look, I never thought a rose in a whiskey bottle would look so lovely! Can’t wait to see your final collection
I love this idea! The rose looks great in the bottle. And I think my fiance would adore it – he loves whiskey and scotch and all of that!
FI loves the woods and creek on his family farm. He knows so much about trees and animals and has spent more time outside than in!
So, we are making centerpieces with tall, clear vases, filling the bottoms with rocks from the creek, and putting a couple of willow branches in each one to flow up and out.
This is such a great idea! I love how it captures your personalities (and helps take the edge off wedding planning….)
We aren’t having table assignments, but if we were, I can bet my fiance would be glad to use this system.
Those bottles are terrific.
I’m having a groom’s cake made for my fiance and it’s going to be of his favorite bottle of whiskey.
Oh I love that you’re incorporating something about you guys… or him anyway 
And this is going to look great on the tables! For a really good deal too… talk about re-purposing items!
What a fun idea! This is the perfect way to incorporate more of the groom’s interests, since they are not always overly represented in the wedding day
very pretty,we were going to do the same with the wine bottles and some beer bottles until we ended up getting a venue who will include the center pieces.
your tables will be awsome,share pics after please
That’s a great way to personalize this mundane wedding aspect.
That is such a cute idea! I’d offer to help with the bottles, but I’m more of a bourbon girl.
That is so adorable! And what a little schemer, making it an excuse to drink more whiskey…
I love it! What a unique way to show his personality! My fiance is a wedding photographer so we decided to have take pictures of numbers he sees out in the real world and use those as our table numbers. He loved the idea and I know he’ll have fun hunting down all those numbers
@Miss Squirrel: Preach!
I’m all about these, I would take tons of pictures of them if I were a guest. Great idea Jackrabbits!
So unique! I think it’s wonderful that you guys got creative and came up with centerpieces that would reflect your fiance’s personality. Plus, I’m sure he’s excited now that he has a really, really good reason to start drinkin some quality whiskey
Are you going to use wine bottles at all for you?
This is such a great way to integrate your guys’ personality into the wedding decor–such a great idea and it’ll save you a ton of $$ on centerpieces (since the bottles serve two purposes–to drink and to hold!)
Definitely check out Old Pulteney! My FH loves it – it’s a Scottish sea-whisky, slightly salty – and it comes it in the cutest bottle:
Miss Jackrabbit, Brighton, UK Age and Occupation: 26, Office Manager Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Songwriter Engagement Date: October 5, 2012 Wedding Date: September 2013 Venue: Fabrica Gallery, Brighton About Me: I honestly thought I'd go all Monica Geller when I started planning our wedding, but in truth, things couldn't have gone much differently. I am working my way through this venture, figuring things out as I go, and adopting a 'Que Sera, Sera,' approach to making decisions. When I'm not organising the biggest day of my life, I can usually be found drinking a glass of wine, crafting up one thing or another, or stopping my cat from head-butting me in the face.
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