This design was originally designed for a water bottle label, but can easily be changed to fit onto custom stickers, wine labels, or bumper stickers.  If you’re completely wild about the design, you could order it as a suite of products so that you have a theme tying the different aspects of your wedding together.

If your wedding vision is trés chic, this label design may just give you the inspiration you need to infuse French glamour into all aspects of your fête!

Sound nice?  Then a beach wedding might be right for you!

Beach weddings can run the gamut from formal to casual.  If you’re thinking of juxtaposing the casual, laid-back setting of the beach with formal table settings, you’ll definitely want to consider using custom wine labels to add to your décor.  We have a few beach-themed designs to choose from, like “Lucky Sand Dollar” (shown above).

If you like “Lucky Sand Dollar”, you’ll probably also enjoy “Shells” as well.  Both label designs feature a clean blue background and a lovely collection of shells.  We also have a design called “Tropical“, that showcases the bold, rich tones of the sunset.  All our designs are, of course, completely customizable.  You can add your name, the date of your wedding, the location, anything you like!

Of course, if you want a truly custom label, you can always create your own!  Upload your engagement photos to your label, or even just snap a picture of the beach you’re saying your vows on.  You can have a lot of fun creating custom labels for beach weddings!

Once you have your custom wine labels, it’s easy to apply them to the bottles of wine you’ll be serving at your wedding.  Place the bottles on the tables, arrange some shells across the tablecloth, add some candles, and voila!  A tasteful, beach-themed tablescape that will look fabulous in photos!

Every once in awhile a new design comes around that captures our imagination.  Swirl Frenzy, designed by Lacy Labels, is just such a design.  Swirl Frenzy is classy, dramatic, and full of possibilities.

Imagine this gorgeous water bottle label design adorning bottled water at a glamorous fundraising gala.  The swirls keep the design from getting stuffy, and the generous black area on this label provides ample room for event details.  Using this label design would be an easy way to make bottled water sophisticated enough to look appropriate at a black tie event.

This design would also look right at home at a classy 50th birthday party.  The black and gold color scheme are rich and easy to coordinate with, and there’s plenty of room in the black portion to include a picture of the birthday girl if desired.

Of course, this design would also look beautiful at a wedding reception.  If swirls are a part of your wedding’s design scheme, this design would fit right into your reception decor.  Provide your guests with beautiful custom label bottled water, and enjoy admiring how lovely these bottles look on your reception tables!

That’s the beauty of custom labels.  One design can spark your imagination!

Here in the Pacific Northwest, we know spring is on the way by the gorgeous daffodils that pop up all over the place!  With spring so close, summer’s soon to follow, and that means wedding season!

Summer weddings are such fun.  Good weather, great outdoor venues, fantastic lighting for photos!  Planning an outdoor wedding can present additional logistical challenges, but they’re nothing you can’t solve with a little creativity.

Take, for example, keeping your guests hydrated and cool during your outdoor festivities.  The last thing you want is for the one thing everyone remembers from your wedding to be your aunt fainting at the reception!

Have you thought about serving beer at your wedding?  It’s an easy refreshment to offer, as it’s already in serving containers (no need for extra glassware), and doesn’t have enough alcohol content that you have to worry about certain family members imbibing too much (every family has them!).

If you’re worried about the somewhat down-market image of beer, try classing the bottles up with custom beer labels.  You can coordinate the colors, text, and images on the beer labels with the rest of your decorative touches, ensuring that you won’t have to worry about beer labels clashing with your table settings.

We have several wedding beer label designs to choose from, or you can design your own.  Our Design Online tool makes it easy to upload your images and text to your beer labels.  Have fun designing your custom beer labels, then enjoy watching guests relaxing and enjoying themselves at your wedding!

Personalized wedding stickers are so much fun.  Not only can you use them in a variety of places at your wedding, you can have a ton of fun designing them!

You can match the colors on these labels to your wedding colors, upload your custom monogram so that your customized wedding stickers match your wedding stationery, or go in a completely different direction and introduce a bold new design into your wedding suite.  With our Design Online tool, you have complete freedom to make your wedding stickers look exactly how you imagined them.

Obviously the sky’s the limit when it comes to how you use these custom labels at your wedding, but here are some ideas we’ve seen other brides and grooms use beautifully:

• Upload your monogram, and then use our custom stickers to seal the invitations for your wedding.  Give your guests a great first impression by making the outside of the envelopes beautiful too!
• Use personalized wedding stickers as bridal shower favor bag seals.  Send your guests home from your wedding shower with a little cellophane bag filled with the bride’s favorite treats, and then seal the bag with a custom sticker that thanks your guests for coming.
• If you’re constructing wedding programs with overlapping pieces of paper, use custom wedding stickers to adhere your programs together.  Custom and practical!
• Candy buffets are extremely popular, so why not put your own personal spin on the concept by providing guests with custom stickers to seal their sweet treats with?  Provide cellophane bags, have your guests fill them up with a selection of you and your beloved’s favorite candies, and then display your custom stickers at the end of the line for guests to use to seal their bags.
• Children love stickers, so put together little kid care packages for the wee ones at your reception.  Provide bags of activities, small toys, crayons, coloring books, and custom wedding stickers at each child’s place setting and then just wait for their parents to thank you!

We’d love to hear from you: How can you imagine using custom wedding stickers in your wedding?

Bride Pop recently published their analysis of the true cost of the average wedding, and the breakdown is extremely illuminating.  Click on the image at the top of this post to enlarge it, or visit the chart over at Bride Pop’s website.

As you can see, the average cost of a wedding ends up with a total akin to something you’d expect to pay for a college degree.  With all the financial frugality we’ve all had to adopt recently, this number can seem daunting and make it feel like you’ll never be able to afford the wedding of your dreams.

Fear not!  This is only a breakdown of the average cost, which means there’s lots of opportunity to cut costs down here and there.  Notice the bottom right part of the pie chart, where it breaks down the cost for favors and gifts.  This is a great place to save some money.

You could use custom water bottle labels to jazz up bottles of water, and then tie ribbons around the necks of the bottles with little tags thanking your guests for coming to your wedding.  Place these on tables near the exits and encourage guests to take them to make the ride home pleasant.  This is an inexpensive and stylish way to cut costs on your favors, and you know your guests will put them to good use!

If you look at the costs for the reception, you’ll notice that you can probably cut down the cost for beverages and bartender by putting open bottles of wine on the reception tables.  Top the bottles off with custom wine labels and you’ve got pretty table decor and beverages all rolled up in one pretty custom package!

If you’d like some more ideas for saving money on your nuptials without sacrificing style, we highly recommend that you start with this article on planning a budget wedding, and then check out The Broke Ass Bride.  The happiest day of your life doesn’t necessarily have to be the most expensive!

Winter is a fabulous time to get married.  Even if you’re tying the knot smack dab in the middle of California (where the winters are really more like suggestions than reality) it’s still a fantastic season to plan your nuptials for.

You can have so much fun with rich fabrics and colors with a winter wedding.  The season naturally lends itself to rich hues and sumptuous accents.  Icicles and snowflakes are a lot of fun to use in decorating, or you can go the opposite way and make good use of cinnamon sticks and candles.

Either way, when you’re planning your wedding don’t forget to put some thought into your wedding favors!  Winter wedding favors are a lot of fun to give away, because you can go in so many different directions.

We’ve seen brides give away bottles of homemade apple cider, with custom wine labels and sticks of cinnamon tied to them.  We’ve also enjoyed weddings where the couple gave away personalized bottles of wine to each couple at their wedding (If you decide to do this, it’s a lot of fun to put a wish on the label that your guests go home and toast the bride and groom).

You could make up packets of mulling spices and hand them out in little packets with custom labels on them, or you could give your guests mini boxes of chocolates with personalized labels thanking them for making your wedding day so special.

The options are limitless.  If you’re planning a winter wedding, congratulations!  If we can help add a custom touch to your wedding please let us know and we’ll be happy to help any way we can.

What they did was to write short bits of trivia about them as a couple on each label design, and I’d be willing to bet guests had a great time looking for all the facts at the reception!  The thing I love about this idea is that it’s so personalized and fun.  What better way to help everyone who comes to your wedding feel included than by giving them little tidbits about your life as a couple?

They ultimately did six designs in all, check out our favorites below! (Click on the image to make it larger)

Ways you can use this idea in your own wedding:

• Order the same label design but include a different tidbit on each sheet of labels.  Share bits of trivia about how you met, hobbies and interests, how you got engaged, honeymoon plans, etc.
• Use trivia answers to build a wedding crossword guests can fill out before the ceremony starts or during the reception.
• Place one bottle at each place setting at your reception, and give each place setting a bottle with a different trivia fact on it.  What a fun way to get a conversation going at each table!

If you have any questions about designing labels like this for your own event, just let us know.  We’re happy to listen to what you have in mind and help you bring it to life!  Thanks so much to Brett and Abby for letting us feature their labels!

We’re tickled to participate in the contest and we’re offering one of her lucky readers 15 sheets of free custom labels.  That means any label design you want, 15 sheets, customized and delivered to your door.  Easy peasy.

The contest has not officially started yet, this is more of a heads-up for thing to come.  The contest kicks off September 28, so keep checking in with The Broke Ass Bride to find out what you need to do to win custom labels from Bottle Your Brand!

A wonderful way to go the extra mile in making your guests comfortable is the out of town bag or basket (a.k.a. The OOT Bag).  These bags, or baskets, are placed in each out of town guest’s room and supplies them with a few personal touches they may need or want throughout your wedding festivities.  Here are some suggestions to help get you started on creating OOT Bag for your own guests:

• Pain relievers.  Advil, aspirin, ibuprofen, any of these will be welcomed by any guest that suffers a headache or muscle sprain.  You can buy single serving packets of these from Target or any drug store and you can bet your guests will appreciate them!
• Shout Wipes.  There’s nothing like an untimely stain to ruin the perfect wedding outfit!  If you throw some single serving Shout Wipes into your OOT Bags, you could potentially save someone’s favorite outfit!
• Snacks. You can really get creative with this one.  Choose snacks that are special to your area or particular favorites of the bride and groom.  Guests will love this custom touch and yummy food!
• Welcome letter/schedule.  Take some time to personally thank your guests for taking such a long trip to come see you.  This is a wonderful way to start the festivities out in a custom, grateful way.  Include a schedule of festivities, along with a map, to insure your guests know where to be and when.
• Personalized bottled water.  Coordinate the label with your wedding colors and theme.  Not only will this help set the tone of your celebration for your guests, it’ll also provide the added benefit of giving them something to drink that isn’t ridiculously expensive hotel bottled water!

You can buy inexpensive baskets from Michael’s and customize them with a ribbon or fabric that matches your wedding decorations, or buy color-coordinated totes from any wedding favor retailer.  With a few minutes of effort, you’ll make a huge impression on your out of town guests and make them feel truly welcomed.

Will you or have you used OOT Bags?  How did you add your own personal flair?