Be my Groomsman?

So technically, this one isn't my craft, it's my fiance's, but I kinda helped, so I'm posting it :P

First of all - did you know that anywhere cigars are sold, they sell cigar boxes for like $1-2?! How has it taken me this long to figure out? Cigar boxes are SO cool!

My fiance came up with this idea to give to his groomsmen to ask them to stand up in our wedding. It was very simple...we just bought cigar boxes, airplane liquor bottles, cigars, cigar cutters, and some filler to go in the boxes.

Everything pictured cost less than $80! 

Once we bought all the stuff, it literally took 10 minutes to throw it all together. I printed out "Groomsmen?" in Old English font to tape to the top of the boxes.

Happy Asking!

Be my Bridesmaid?

Alright, so here's some news - I'm getting married!! So, expect a slew of wedding related crafts within the next year, starting with this one. First step - ask your bridesmaids to be in your wedding. While I don't think that social convention dictates that you give a gift to ask a bridesmaid to stand up in your wedding, I thought this was a great way to take on a new fun project.

As you may have seen in one of my previous posts, I stained a few wine crates to give as gifts. Well, these are the gifts I was referring to. I will have 2 bridesmaids plus a maid of honor. While I realize gifting wine is to bridesmaids is a little trendy right now, I feel my gift has a little more meaning than most - we are getting married at a winery! So, I am gifting wine from the actual winery, which I think it kinda cool.

Materials used: burgundy burlap, hemp cord, dark green excelsior, and decorative gift fill (that is unfortunately purchased at Hobby Lobby since I had a gift card, but I certainly don't recommend shopping there if you support women's rights)

I usually don't go into projects knowing exactly how I am going to put them together, I just collected these items because they all went with the rustic/wine theme I was going for.

Items that would go in the wine crates were tailored to each girl receiving one. Murrieta's Well wine, black stallion cabernet sauvignon chocolate sauce (can unfortunately only be purchased at the winery in Napa!), leaf wine charms, heart wine stopper, vacu vin wine preserver, uncorked champage candle.

The completed wine crates. Links for the specific sizes can be found in my previous blog post. The larger crate is for my MOH, and the 2 smaller ones are for my bridesmaids.

In order to prevent the filler material from falling through the slats at the bottom of each crate, I put a layer of the burgundy burlap down on the bottom of the crates. This could also be accomplished with just a piece of paper or card stock.

I decided to wrap each of the gift items in burlap and tie them with the hemp string. This drew more attention to the wine, which was the feature of the gift. I think all the crates came out really well. I hope the girls like them!

In MOH's crate: The Whip and The Spur wine (white & red), heart bottle stopper, cab sauv chocolate sauce, uncorked candle.

In bridesmaid's crate: The Whip wine (white), vacu vin wine preserver.

In bridesmaid's crate: The Whip wine (white), leaf wine charms.

Happy Asking!