Personalized Wine Bottles

When celebrating a special occasion like a wedding or anniversary, personalized wine bottles are a nice touch to commemorate the day.

If you have a computer and a printer, you can personalize your wine bottles. The various programs on any standard computer allows you to design a label with your own design or with clip art. For a more professional looking wine label though, try wine label making software. This software allows you to create professional looking labels for your wine bottles and you can find some of the software for free.

For large, special occasions like weddings, consider ordering custom made wine bottles to commemorate the day. Here are a few places that offer this service:

• Signature Wines – At Signature Wines you can also get water bottles and Champagne bottles personalized with any design of your choosing.
• Personal Wine – Choose from their Merlot, Cabernet, Chardonnay, sparkling and blush wines for your personalized label. Personal Wine also offers mini bottles of all their wines.
• Stoney Creek Wine Press – You have the option of choosing just the personalized label to put on your own bottles of wine or having Stoney Creek put a custom label on one of their wide varieties of red and white wines. Their selection includes: Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Riesling, Rose, Cabernet, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Shiraz.
• Crystal Images – Offering something a little different, this company engraves wine bottles. Instead of a paper label, your custom label is engraved onto the bottle of wine for a very elegant look. Crystal Images also personalizes liquor bottles.
• Etched Images – This company offers image etching onto the glass wine bottle. They also offer a wax dipping service where the neck of the wine bottle is dipped in one of their 18 stock colors.

There are some things you need to keep in mind if you have your own bottles of wine and just want to order custom labels:

• Get a sample – Have the company send you a sample of their work. Many places online have examples of their custom labels for you to view on your computer. When you choose to do this, make sure the picture is a high resolution (check the settings on your computer).
• Ask questions about the adhesive backing – This is especially important for white wine and Champagne that will be chilling in a bucket of ice water. Ask questions about how well the label sticks when wet. You don't want to spend a lot of money on a bunch of wine labels that are just going to end up peeling off the second they get wet. This isn't an issue for reds, of course.
• Remember to ask about their policies for mistakes (if they misspelled a name or got a date wrong) and their policy on breakage during shipping.

If you plan on ordering wine with custom labels, keep these things in mind:

• Ask about shipping – Retailers can't ship wine to every state. This has something to do with each state's Liquor Control Commissions regulations.
• Consider what type of wine you want shipped very carefully – You may want to cater the type of wine you choose to your guests' tastes or you may just want to order equal amounts of red and white wine and allow your guests to choose which type they would like.
• Shop around – You definitely want to price shop if you are choosing to have the wine shipped. The price of the bottles of custom labeled wine is largely dependent upon what label or brand name of wine the company uses.

Some final advice when considering custom wine labels for any event is to aways order more than you need. This is to account for breakage. Remember, it's always better to have too much than not enough.

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