Crafty Wine Glasses

Lots of people get married every year (Which is why I hate the whole "Why is everyone getting married?" jokes and complaints, like this is the first year it's happened.). If you are like me you want to do something crafty, cute, and creative for your wedding and/or friend's wedding. Well, for my bridal shower I had come up with the idea to make personalized wine glasses for my bridesmaids. I am great with coming up with ideas, but sometime I need a little help... ok a lot of help. Which is why I am lucky that not only my maid of honor is my best friend, but super crafty and artistic!
She made mine, hers, and all the other bridesmaids wine glasses.

Mine is a little nit different from the girls'. It was made re-using ribbon from another wedding gift. I loved it so I wanted to use it for something, so it's the bow on my wine glass and the ribbon on my ring bearer pillow (that was hand made by my mother!)

As you can tell my wedding colors were blue and green, but of course this can work with any color. My best friend even put together the wine glass charms.

To make this for your own shower/wedding/birthday/girls night/whatever, first you need a wine glass. We got ours from Dollar Tree. Be warned though, Dollar Tree wine glasses are cheap for a reason. They have weak steams the break very easily. Then chose some ribbon that you like. A hot glue gun is a must to keep everything from falling down or looking droopy. I'm sure the names can be painted on with acrylic paint, but she used stain glass paint the you can buy at a craft store. You also need some one with fancy hand writing! She then coated the black paint with glitter glue. The plastic jewels under the name are just strips of sticky jewels you can get at a craft store in other colors, shapes, and sizes. We then picked out blue and green dragonfly charms for the wine glass charm. This was found in the jewelry section of a craft store. She then used wire you can get from a craft store or hardware store to string the beads and charm. She then used needle nose pliers to bend both ends into hooks to hold the wine glass charm onto the base. And.... that's about it.


"Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves." -Phyllis George