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Wine wedding favors at your wedding will really keep spirits high on your special day! There are many things you can do with a wine theme to make your favors decorative, fun, and memorable.

Wine Charms

These little metal and beaded or enameled charms are designed as a set, but each one is unique. The idea is that when guests at a party put their unique charm around the stem of their glass, they’ll be able to find it again if they put it down. These are a fun item to include as a favor, and they’re pretty too!

Wine Glasses

Today’s personalized wine glasses are available in fine crystal. You can order stemless wine glasses or glasses with traditional stems. You can even have all sorts of logos and designs or monograms printed on them. Some companies will even print your own sketch onto glasses. Think about what you’d like your wine glasses to look like and find a place that will print your desired design.

Your Own Vintage

Know someone who makes wine in small batches? You can still find artisans who will make you a limited batch of wine that you can have bottled in your own bottles. This is a truly unique favor. If you can’t find a vintner to make you this favor, you can order a quantity of a vintage that’s only available in your town or area.

Personalized Labels

Wedding labels for wine bottles are another great idea for a wedding favor. You order the labels and then adhere them to the vintage of your choice. This can be a really unique gift and can also work with miniature champagne bottles. Non-alcoholic or sparkling wines also make a nice favor.

Wine Cork Candles

These darling little candles come in the exact replica of a wine cork. Guests can pop them into an empty wine bottle when they get home and have a lovely candlelit dinner.

Cork Screws

Cork screws are available in every shape and design imaginable. Choose one that goes with your theme or celebrates a landmark or famous spot in the area you’re getting married in. You can get these in sets with wine stoppers as well, where you can present each guest with a complete set they can use at home.

Wine Stoppers

Lovely glass, resin, or metal wine stopper favors are beautiful and useful. You can find them with all sorts of designs from the silly to the elegant. They’re not only pretty to look at, but guests can use them at home when they want to store a half-finished bottle of wine.

Wine Cork Place Card Holders

Combine the favor with the place card holders. These faux wine cork place card holders come with slits to slide your place card and table numbers into. Guests can find their names and then bring them to their tables to take home at the end of the night.

Wine Glass Gel Candles

These candles will truly fool the eye. They look exactly like a glass of red wine. They are really wine glass favors with gel wax poured into them. They look charming on the tables, and after the wedding, guests can take them home as a keepsake.

Go Grape

Think about incorporating grapes into your favors. You can give coasters that have a grape motif or pewter grape napkin rings. You can find painted plaques, magnets, glasses, favor boxes, and more all with a grape design. You can also carry the grape theme over into your centerpieces. Have artificial or real grapes draped in a basket with other fruits and some candles. Or drape them around a candelabra. It will look stunning with your wine-themed décor.

More articles on Wine or Vineyard Wedding Ideas:

• Plan a Vineyard Wine Themed Wedding
• Vineyard and Wine Wedding Ideas
• Wine and Pink: Inspiration Board

When planning a wedding and choosing colors, many brides bring out the usual suspects – pinks, whites, creams, blues, silvers, and even chocolate.  But you want something different; you want something that sparkles, that impresses even as it surprises.  For you, purple is perfect.  Long associated with royalty – because kings and queens were once the only ones who could afford the luxurious dye used to create purple garments – purple is very rich, extremely varied, and always interesting.  You could play it safe with soft lavenders, or you begin incorporating some purple passion into your big day.

Light purple colors are lovely, and they can be quite intriguing when paired with shades of pale or baby pink, lime green, powder blue, silver, or gold.  Darker hues of purple work well with chocolate, light and darker shades of pink, and darker greens. These are all great options, but consider throwing convention aside and trying a monochromatic theme for your wedding:  purple comes in any number of rich, gorgeous shades, and you can combine them for a dramatic, royal affect.  Lilac, amethyst, lavender, aubergine, fuchsia, magenta, mauve, violet, wisteria, and other hues can be dramatic and dynamic when arranged in different combinations and accented with simple brown, silver, or cream.

A great purple passion bridal bouquet can be made from lovely wisteria, lilac, lavender double tulips, bluebird roses, pink godetia, and lavender dendrobium orchids. These are arranged with a touch of greenery, such as catmint or varieties of oregano.  It is whimsical and elegant.  Also try blooms in reds, blues, pinks, chocolate (chocolate cosmos and roses are great choices) or shades of purple.

The bride can opt for a white dress with a sash in her preferred purple hue, while her bridesmaids wear purple dresses with white or a darker or lighter shade of purple sash.  Or again, if you really want to embrace the purple passion theme, consider a purple wedding dress.  Upon first hearing this, you may think that a purple wedding dress would be hideous: they're not!  In fact, they can be very sophisticated and chic.  Dita von Teese, for instance, wore a Vivienne Westwood creation of purple silk taffeta that was anything but understated.

But you could also opt for a more sedate – but hardly boring – version.  Assepoester makes a couture dress with a sleeveless v-neck top with ruffled neckline and a darker layered skirt.  The gray tones literally tone the dress down, while the interesting lines create a thoroughly innovative and chic gown. Bridesmaids would look wonderful in gray or silver dresses.

Men can wear vests and ties of accent colors, such as another shade of purple, silver, cream, or brown, with a purple pocket square; purple tie clips and cuff links; or a purple vest with silver, cream, or brown tie.  The men's attire is dependent largely on what the bride and her bridesmaids wear.

Depending on your tone, your reception venue can be decorated with pastel, soft purples and complementing white, cream, and pink tones, or your could go with a darker purple with lots of texture, including dark and light purple and white balloons, scented candles, rich purple table linens, solid white chair covers with purple ties, and other sensuous touches. There are plenty of purple wedding favors to choose from, and you could even opt for purple wedding reception centerpieces as well. There are plenty of ways to subtly tie in purple amongst your other complementary colors.

Purple passion can also extend to your menu.  You can feature dishes made with the lavender herb, such as meat dishes, or you can add lavender butter into cupcakes and other desserts.  Melt some butter and culinary lavender and dip artichoke leaves in this aromatic mixture.  Try a purple signature drink:  instead of passing out champagne, give your guests the purple passion for your toast.  Simply take your regular champagne, add a splash of blue grape juice and a small handful of blueberries.

Purple is passionate, and its many beautiful hues are ideal for creating a passionate, loving, and fresh wedding.

More Inspiration Ideas:

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• Pretty Garden Wedding Favors
• Wedding Inspiration: Pastel Pink
• Mission: Color Scheme Green
• Seaside Blue Wedding Color Scheme
• Pink and Chocolate Color Scheme
• Going Yellow With Your Wedding
• Teal & Champagne Wedding Colors
• Daisy Themed Wedding Ideas

Have a passion for purple? If the answer is yes, then you and I are on the same page.  Using a gray or black base for your wedding palette allows you to incorporate a splash of purple throughout the wedding reception and ceremony.  Using purple irises and lilacs in the spring or purple hydrangeas in the summer can add just the pop of color you need in your reception centerpieces.  A beautiful plum purple color would look great for the bridesmaid dresses when the groomsmen wear simple graphite gray tuxes.   And of course, incorporating a simple purple floral design on the wedding invitations is a must.  If you are planning a purple and grey wedding, you've come to the right place for inspiration!

One of my favorite places to find inspiration is at dessy.com.  They enable brides to easily create their own inspiration boards and share them with the world.  I'm always impressed with the creativity of the brides who take a simple color palette and create a truly inspiring mood board.  The above Winter Modern Glam purple and gray board was created by Winter Heather who shows that purple isn't just for spring and summer anymore.    You can see hints of purple in many things such as the lilacs in the floral bouquets, the martini glasses (which would be the perfect way to serve a signature cocktail), the purple duchess satin ties on the groomsmen, and of course the purple bridesmaid dresses.  A truly glamourous look!

I found another gorgeous purple and grey inspiration board created by yellow and gray at dessy.com.  You can see that the following collage shows a vision for a purple inspired garden wedding.  A few lime green accents have creeped into the design as well.  Eggplant colored bridesmaid dresses are paired with simple graphite gray tuxes with duchess satin gray ties.  A flowing floral pattern wedding gown features a grey sash.  And purple flowers abound.  Simply stunning!!

More Purple Inspiration:

Wedding Inspiration for a Purple Passion Color Scheme

Wine Wedding Favors