If you’re a guy who’s planning to get married soon, you’re probably aware that groomsmen gifts can be pretty generic.  You’ve got your choice of a flask, a money clip, a pocketknife, or cufflinks.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

Sure, you can try to jazz those up a bit by engraving them with your groomsmen’s initials, but essentially these always boil down to the same gift.  In fact, chances are good that if your friends have been in more than one wedding they’ve already been given one or more of these gifts.

For your wedding, why not break the mold and go for a personalized gift they’ll actually enjoy and, better yet, that you can enjoy with them?  Personalized beer is a refreshing take on the ages-old custom of giving a groomsman gift.

All you have to do is buy a few cases of your favorite beer, customize the bottles with personalized beer labels, and you’re all set.  The best part is that you can even enjoy the beer with your groomsmen before the ceremony (this actually makes for a great photo opportunity!).

Personalized beer is an economical way to thank your groomsmen for being an important part of your wedding day, so if you’re stuck and looking for groomsman gift ideas this is a great option to explore.  Our labels are high-quality, waterproof, and come with a large variety of designs that will suit your taste.

If you and your friends are known for your hijinks, you might enjoy some of our funny beer labels.  If your wedding is black tie and classy, however, perhaps one of our classic beer labels might be more to your taste.  Either way, personalized beer is a unique way to spend some quality time with your friends and family before the festivities begin.

Our turnaround and production time is very fast (our production time for personalized beer labels is three days, and we offer the full range of FedEx shipping options), so even if you’ve procrastinated this task to the last minute you probably still have time to make this work.

As always, if you have any questions or would like to see samples of our labels, all you have to do is let us know!

Planning a bachelorette party can be a lot of fun.  A bachelorette party (aka a Hen party) is a lot less formal than a bridal shower and is a great opportunity to give the bride some time to let loose with close friends and family before her big day.  Activities for bachelorette parties vary wildly from drinks and dancing to weekends in Vegas.

No matter what you end up planning for your bride-to-be, an important part of any bachelorette party is  bachelorette party favors.  As with any party, favors are important because they thank your guests for spending time with you at your event.

One of the best ways to do this is with personalized bottled water.  Handing out customized bottled water to your guests throughout the course of the party will keep everyone refreshed, hydrated, and ready to have fun.  After the party, the bottles of water are a neat reminder for everyone of the bride-to-be and her amazing last night out.

We have some brand new water label designs that are perfect for bachelorette parties.  Our bachelorette party favors feature designs that range from sassy to classy and will blend well with any plans you may have for the evening.  Our custom water bottle labels come in two sizes (small and large) and are completely water-proof and self-adhesive.  The labels are relatively small and will fit perfectly in a carry-on if you’re planning a destination bachelorette party.

You can also order these designs on bottles of our purified spring water and have them delivered.  This will take all the prep work out of your bachelorette party favors and give you more time for other things.  As always, we are happy to provide samples of our products if you’d like to see the quality of our labels and water for yourself.

Personalized water bottles, prominently featuring the bride-to-be’s name and other choice details, are a wonderful way to give your favorite bride a unique memento of her last night out, and the perfect way to keep everyone feeling great all night long.

Every day at Bottle Your Brand, we are fortunate to get to work with some of the most creative people around.  Every single one of our customers has an idea they’re bringing to life with our labels, and it’s a pleasure to help bring those ideas to fruition.

Whether it’s a bride who is crafting a custom wine label to match her wedding invitations or a small business owner using custom logo water bottles to market his company, everyone who orders from us has a creative idea they’re excited to share.  We love working with our customers to create labels they’ll love, and it’s even more fun for us to see how they end up using our products at their events.

That’s why we started our Gallery.  We’re proud of the labels we help our customers create and we want to show off their talent and showcase their creativity.  Our Gallery features pictures, submitted by our customers, of how they used our products in real life.

This is a great resource for anyone who’s looking for ideas for baby or bridal showers, celebrations, weddings, marketing opportunities, and more.  Flip through our photos and you’re bound to get inspired by these great ideas!

There’s something more than just inspiration in it for you as well.  If you’ve used our products in your event, you can email us your photos and automatically be entered in our monthly drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card!  All you have to do is send us an email with photos attached and a short note about how you used our products in your event and we’ll enter your name into the drawing and showcase your photos on our gallery.

For contest rules and details, please visit this page.

There are as many pros and cons for planning a destination wedding as there are for hometown weddings.  On the plus side, destination weddings can be hosted nearly anywhere, giving you absolute freedom to get hitched in an incredible beautiful or meaningful spot.  On the minus side, there’s a good chance that your guest list will be severely depleted due to scheduling conflicts and ticket prices.

If you and your betrothed do decide to get married in an exotic place, make sure you plan ahead for your wedding favors.  Destination weddings can make planning ahead for favors a bit tricky, especially now that airlines are charging for extra luggage, but a little forethought will save you headaches later on.

One of the easiest, and most memorable, destination wedding favors is personalized beverage labels.  Our labels are small, light, and easy to pack into a suitcase.  You can order wine, beer, or water labels ahead of time, take them with you, and then purchase local beverages to serve to your guests with your personalized labels on them.

These labels are a beautiful memento of your special day and will remind you of the unique location of your wedding for years to come.  We offer a wide range of templates to choose from, many of which are tropical-themed, and you can change all the wording on these labels to commemorate your names, wedding date, and wedding location.

If you have time before your wedding, please feel free to request a sample of the template you’re interested in.  We are happy to supply samples of our products so that you can see for yourself our completely self-adhesive, high-quality labels and photo-quality digital printing.

As always, if you have any questions please contact us and we’ll be happy to answer your questions.

There’s something very special about winter weddings.  The warmth of the holiday season combines with the love and beauty of the wedding ceremony and the effect is always special and meaningful.  The nice thing about winter weddings, too, is that they’re off-season, so rates are often lower for things like catering and venues.

An important part of any wedding, regardless of season, is wedding favors.  Winter wedding favors are a personal favorite of ours because there are so many unique options available during this time of year.  Whether you give your guests candy canes or peppermint hot chocolate kits, your guests are sure to appreciate how thoughtfully you blended the season with your wedding celebration.

A great way to thank your guests for celebrating with you and your brand-new spouse is to provide bottles of wine, cider, or champagne with personalized wine labels that include details of your special day.  We have a wide selection of beautiful wedding wine labels, many of which are perfect for winter weddings.

Personalized wedding wine labels have the amazing ability to turn simple beverages into beautiful decorations and can even serve as winter wedding centerpieces.  Simply arrange three bottles of different beverages (e.g. red wine, non-alcoholic cider, champagne) in the middle of the table with some color-coordinated ribbon to tie them all together and voila!  A beautiful wedding centerpiece!

If you have custom label ideas, we are happy to help you design a completely custom label.  For a $50 fee, we will design your label from scratch and keep working with you to make sure it’s exactly how you’ve always imagined it.  If you would like to see a sample of our products, feel free to submit a request using our website and we’ll have a sample label to you within a week.

Here at Bottle Your Brand, we have the pleasure of helping many brides, grooms, and families design personalized wedding favors.  We’ve helped couples design labels to commemorate their engagements, weddings, and even first children, and it’s always a joy to help make these special events memorable.

For your enjoyment, here are some fun trivia facts that we’ve collected over the years:

•  One of the earliest examples we have of an engagement ring was given to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII.  She was two years old at the time.
• Ancient Spartan soldiers are credited with starting the tradition of throwing “stag parties” (AKA bachelor parties) in order to send their friends off into matrimony with rowdy parties.
• Around 70% of brides wear a traditional diamond ring on the fourth finger of their left hands.
• A sapphire wedding ring is said to mean marital happiness in the symbolic language of jewels.  A pearl is said to be bad luck because its shape looks like a tear.
• 80% of brides plan formal weddings.
• The average number of bridesmaids in a wedding party is four.
• The number of guests at the average American wedding is 189.
• The most popular month to get married is August (10.2% of weddings) with June coming in close behind (9.9% of weddings.)
• The “something blue” portion of the wedding ensemble is said to symbolize purity, fidelity, and love.
• In Christian ceremonies, the bride stands to the left of the groom because, during the time in which the tradition started, the groom needed to keep his right arm free in order to fend off other suitors.

Do you know of other wedding traditions?  Feel free to share in the comments section!

There are many ways that wedding water bottles can add to your special day.  Here are our top ten ways to use custom label bottled water in your wedding:

 1.  Turn your water bottle labels into adorable personalized wedding favors by sending each guest home with a bottle that thanks them for coming to your wedding.

2.  Use a few bottles in guest baskets to help out-of-town guests feel welcome and right at home.

3.  Arrange some water bottles artfully in a tub of ice to keep the wedding party refreshed during pictures.

4.  Make sure the bride and groom’s dressing rooms are stocked with snacks and bottles of water.

5.  Bring water bottles to the bachelor and bachelorette parties to make sure everyone stays hydrated while they’re partying.

6.  Provide the bottles of water to the kids at your wedding, so they’ll have something special to drink as well.  Our 8 oz. size is perfect for little hands, and their parents will appreciate the caps on the bottles for preventing spills!

7.  Provide a bottle of water next to each place setting at your wedding rehearsal or reception dinner and keep extras on hand next to the dance floor to keep the dancers going strong.

8.  Offer personalized water bottles at the bridal shower.

9.  Use personalized water labels to create custom centerpieces.  Apply labels to flower vases and give your floral centerpieces a custom flair.

10.  Stock the getaway car with bottled water so that the bride and groom can get refreshed on their way to happily ever after.

If you’ve used any of these ideas or have any others, feel free to share in the comments section!

Words are an important part of every wedding ceremony.  The wording on your invitations and programs, the vows you speak to each other, the toasts during the reception, all of these words are important, meaningful, and what you’ll remember for the rest of your lives together.

We’ve consulted countless books and websites to find the most romantic, sentimental, and classy wedding verses.  Some of these are already incorporated in our large selection of wedding wine labels and wedding water labels.  Here are some other wedding verses that you can use in your personalized wedding favors:

• “Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.” -William Shakespeare
• “Grow old along with me!  The best is yet to be.” -Robert Browning
• “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” -Friedrich Halm
• “There is no more lovely, friendly or charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” -Martin Luther
• “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand
• “Came but for friendship, and took away love.” -Thomas Moore
• “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” -Andre Maurois
• May you never thirst for love!
• Two hearts, two lives, one love
• Our happily ever after begins today
• Two friends, two hearts.  Joined together in friendship, united forever in love.
• We thank you, each and every one, for joining us this day.  You’ve added to our happiness in a very special way.
• On our wedding day, as we tie the knot, thanks for being here to celebrate, it really means a lot.

We’re always looking for new wedding verses to build labels around so if you’ve used one that you loved or can think of any others, please feel free to share in the comments section!

Some of these verses courtesy of Botanical PaperWorks and All Great Quotes.

Picking out the perfect wedding favor is often the last thing that brides worry about when planning their weddings.  Once the dress is picked out, the bridesmaids’ shoes are coordinated, and the cake is iced, the inevitable question pops up: What am I going to do for wedding favors?

One of my favorite things about wedding favors is that they’re the perfect way to thank your guests for being part of your special day.  The nice thing about planning a wedding noawdays is that it’s easy, and often fun, to find favors that perfectly match your wedding theme.

If budget is a concern, a tasteful and classy way to navigate your way around that is to use bottles of wine as your wedding favors.  Custom wedding wine labels are a beautiful way to turn your wedding libations into beautiful wedding day keepsakes.

Our wedding wine bottle labels are full-color, fully synthetic (meaning you can keep your wine chilled and the labels won’t get ruined,) and come in a beautiful variety of styles and themes that are sure to add a touch of creative class to your celebration.  If you have a specific style or would like to coordinate your labels with your wedding invitations, we have a team of skilled graphic designers who are happy to help you create a truly custom label.

One example of a way that brides have used our labels in their weddings is as table numbers for seating arrangements.  By placing a bottle of wine in the center of the table with a personalized label that displays the table number, you’ve found the perfect way to help guests find their seat and add to the table decor.

Our wine labels are fully self-adhesive and will fit easily onto any glass bottle.  Whether you’re serving champagne or sparkling apple cider, your guests are sure to appreciate your thoughtfulness and creativity.

It’s kind of hard to mess up a beach wedding.  Whether you’re exchanging vows at sunrise, sunset, or anywhere in between, any time you have sun, sand, and surf you’ve got the perfect recipe for romance.

An important thing to keep in mind when planning a beach wedding is the heat.  Beaches can get pretty hot, especially on a cloudless day, and the last thing you want is for your guests to be distracted from the festivities by a terrible sense of thirst.

An easy way to turn the solution to this problem into an adorable wedding favor is to use customized bottled water.  You can personalize any of our labels with yours and your betrothed’s name, your wedding date, or your wedding venue and then arrange them artfully in a bucket of ice to keep your guests refreshed.

We have an amazing selection of templates to choose from, many of which are perfect for beach favors.  If you have a different design idea in mind, we also have a team of graphic designers who can help you turn your ideas into a one-of-a-kind wedding favor.

If you’re having a destination wedding, don’t give up on the idea of custom bottled water for your guests quite yet.  An easy option available for brides who are looking for destination wedding favors is to buy personalized labels prior to the wedding and then bring the labels to the wedding destination.  Our labels are small and easy to pack away in a suitcase or carry-on.  Many brides use our labels-only option and then buy water at the wedding location so they don’t have to worry about shipping costs.  Our labels are completely self-adhesive, so it’s easy to apply them wherever you are.

If you have any questions about personalized wedding water bottle labels, feel free to give us a call or request a sample.  We’re happy to discuss options with you and help you find the perfect wedding favor.