Tips for a Beautiful Winter Wedding From Coke
Our Moms taught us never to show up empty handed and to always welcome your guests with a treat. In honor of this holiday season and listening to our Mother's solid advice we created this ultra special, super cute holiday gift basket with our friends from Coke. An ideal gift for the hostess with the mostess or a lovely gesture to welcome your out of town wedding guests. Easily create this holiday basket/welcome wedding gift last minute. Photographed by Radion Photography
welcome wedding / holiday gift basket
Basket & Napkin We used a wire basket and placed a silver napkin in the bottom. We like to use cloth napkins or kitchen towels as liners. You can purchase them in packs of 5, making it easier to create multiple baskets.
Kitchen Towel & Ornament Although we used a holiday festive towel and a merry ornament, you could go with any kitchen towel. You could also buy ornaments in bulk and write your wedding date or a festive word on it like jolly, love or merry with a sharpie pen. Easy and cute!
Silver Faceted GlassesGlasses are always great to put in your welcome wedding baskets. Especially if you provide a beverage. Hotels always provide glasses, but you never know if your guests have already used them for something else. Guests will thoroughly enjoy sipping their Coke in style with these unique silver faceted glasses.
Candy Coal & Peppermint CandiesWe love these cheeky and fun vintage nostalgic holiday treats- Candy Coal and Peppermint Candies Of course any candy you want to throw in there will be a hit.
Alma Chocolate Alma Chocolate uses fresh ingredients to make their chocolate. A definite splurge for you holiday baskets, but your friends and family will greatly appreciate these hand crafted treats.
Chocolate Espresso Beans An easy way to save a few dollars on your welcome wedding/holiday baskets is to buy in bulk and wrap individually. This allows you to splurge on other items. We are huge coffee lovers, so these chocolate covered espresso beans seemed like a natural fit.
Travel CandleCandles always set the mood! Put your guests into the holiday spirit with a travel candle like this one from Voluspa.
Vintage Holiday Coke Bottle Coca Cola holiday bottles can be bought right this second at your nearest market. With fun holiday names like "Santa," "Someone Nice," "Someone Naughty," "Under the Mistletoe," "Elves," "Secret Santa" and (femvertising!) So many fun bottles to chose from. You can get even fancier by customizing your welcome wedding/holiday baskets with personalized Coke bottles. We know we would feel extra giddy if we received our very own personalized Coke bottle.
tips on creating a gift basket
1. Stick To A Color Palette We created this basket with a traditional holiday silver and red theme, but you could easily go with any color palette. Sticking with products that are in the same color family will give your basket that put together look. This basket above could be recreated in a pink and red theme, if you were looking to go a little less holiday go with red and purple items for a more regal look.
2. Stick To A Budget When creating a gift basket it is wise to stick to a budget, and stay with it.
3. Don't Make It Too Personal Traditionally gift basket are suppose to be personal, however creating baskets in bulk will need a different approach. Select items that you know everyone loves and will use. Like Coke and Chocolate.
Now you know how to create a classic holiday/welcome basket with Coke, but you can celebrate your loved ones with personalized Coke Bottles all the time even including your wedding.
Coke has a section for wedding party fun with pre-made bottles for "Bride," "Groom," and the wedding party. Check it out here or make your wedding party feel extra loved by putting their name on a bottle here. See how to create a super cute bridesmaid box from Coke here. Bonus! Includes a FREE will you be my bridesmaid printable.
Happy Holidays and be sure not to miss Tips for a Beautiful Winter Wedding From Coke.
Winter really can be such a beautiful time to get married. Rates at venues are less expensive, people find it way easier to get off work, and everyone feels a little more romantic when it is cold outside. To prove the romance and beauty, we've partnered with Coke and rounded up quite a few ideas on how you can have a spectacular white winter wedding. We've got ideas from easy holiday inspired winter wedding favors to creating a five second guest card.
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Planning a winter wedding? Well ... it seems only fitting that you take engagement photos in the snow. Before heading outside into the cold here, are a few tips for your winter engagement photographs.
Tips To Taking Your Engagement Photos In The Cold
1. You can wear a dress! Just be sure to put on a pair of thick tights to keep your legs warm.
2. Color is great! Adding deep shades of red, forest green or even plum will amp up your look.
3. Foundation can smudge in the snow. In order to avoid this add equal parts moisturizer and foundation before applying. Try using foundation with a green tint to conceal where the icy cold may leave you a tad reddish.
Photographers: Miriam Bulcher Photography
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Holidays are a time to relish in traditions, and one of our favorite holiday traditions is decorating the tree. We simply adore the idea of having a a Christmas tree at your wedding.
Ways to Use a Christmas Tree at Your Wedding
1. Have the tree take the place of the gift table. Imagine all your wedding presents around the tree, it's like Christmas all over again.
2. Encourage guests to bring you an ornament and have them place it on the tree when they arrive. Each Christmas you can remember them, and the special gesture they brought you.
Photographers: Andie Freeman Photography
Instead of traditional place cards, treat your guests to a personalized Coca Cola. Coke swapped their famous logo with your name, so you could #shareacoke with the people who matter to you most on your special day.
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Lighting is a great way to create a festive atmosphere at your Christmas inspired wedding. You may have noticed in the prior photo their was a large mason jar filled with fairy lights sitting on top of a cut out piece of wood. An easy DIY idea to add some ambiance to your table. Creating this simple project will only take a few things.
Mason Jar With Fairy Lights
1. Mason Jars
2. Micro Fairy Lights
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Eating outdoors will add a lively dimension to your wedding reception. Just because it is cold outside does not mean that you need to avoid eating outdoors. It just means you need to add a little extra warmth to the outdoor dinning area. You can easily do this with heat lamps, fire pits and blankets.
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It might take a few more than five minutes to collect the pine cones, but once you have them all, type all of your guests name out on card stock and place the card in the pine cone and you have yourself a on-trend organic place card.
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Photographers: Lindsay Skeans Photography
If you don't have time this winter to personalize bottles for all your guests, you can still keep it festive and Share a Coke with your guests at your winter wedding with a Christmas Coke bottle.
With holiday classic labels like "Santa," "Someone Nice," "Someone Naughty," "Under the Mistletoe," "Elves," "Secret Santa" and (femvertising!) "Mrs. Claus." They even have reindeer names such as "Dasher & Dancer," "Prancer & Vixen" and "Comet & Cupid." It is easy to add a little holiday cheer to your table with Coke.
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While there are a whole slew of holiday inspiration to chose from for your Christmas/Winter wedding, one that should not be passed up is Chex Mix. It is a classic that never goes out of style. Whip up this tasty treat for guests and find the recipe here.
Turn it into a wedding favor with a FREE printable label and a bow from Whipberry.
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No matter the season of the wedding, a dessert table is always a good idea. In order to create a desert table that reflects your theme, be sure not to choose more than 3 colors in your palette.
For a rustic winter wedding you could go with shades of blue and sliver or for a more rustic approach go with cream, gold and brown. The options are endless on delicious treats to add to this color scheme, but here are a few of our favorites.
Cream, Gold and Brown Dessert Table Ideas
1. Chocolate covered pretzels
2. Individually wrapped caramels
3. Chocolate Malt Balls
4. Vintage Coke bottles with your guests names printed on them.
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With Share a Coke you can personalize your cokes and make them cake toppers for your rustic white winter wedding. They even have the option of Bride, Groom and Mrs. Mr. option as well. So cute ... right?
Wrap the cake in burlap and add holly and berries for an even more festive look.
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A wedding reception with silver flocked pine cones, mercury glass and silver will create a timeless and beautiful winter wedding reception. Tie a silver velvet bow around your guests personalized Share a Coke bottles to dress them up and you have yourself an elegant and magical affair.
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Make your wedding party feel ultra special with personalized wedding party Share a Coke bottles. Coke has bottles for The Bride, The Groom, Bridesmaid, Groomsman, Flower Girl, Ring Bearer, Best Man, Maid of Honor, The Mr. The Mrs. Mom of the Bride, Dad of the Bride all ready to be shipped right to your door.
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One of our favorite holiday traditions is a cookie swap. A gathering of friends, where each person makes a one of kind cookie to share. At the party, everyone packages up their cookies and leaves with assorted cookies.
In honor of this holiday tradition, ask your guests bring their favorite holiday cookie. You provide the cute tins or boxes and guests can create their own cookie box. Best idea ever.
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With Share a Coke bulk orders you can add more names to personalize bottles for your wedding guests at once. You simply add one name per a line and add to basket. Bonus! 10% when you order 48 bottles or more making your personalized wedding favors less than $5 a piece.
Recycle all your guests Share a Coke bottles and create a Mercury Glass Coke bottle centerpiece for your New Year's eve party. You'll only need a few supplies to create this festive centerpiece that Living Locutro created.
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