It's Time For A Wine Tasting

If you're looking for a fun pre-wedding activity for you and your bridesmaids, consider a wine tasting! It's a step up from a simple dinner out and a more manageable event than a day at the spa - besides, you're all already beautiful, it's time to celebrate your friendship and upcoming nuptials with bridesmaid gifts of a glass or two at a great local winery. Consult the internet or your local phone book for a location, or ask any wine connoisseur friends to recommend a great place. Depending on the season, you might be able to book a tour of the winery with a follow-up tasting, or simply attend a special event wine tasting.

Consider scheduling the wine tasting around a nice lunch out with your girls. After all, these events are best done no more than a few weeks prior to the ceremony, so you can iron out all the last-minute kinks in your wedding plans and reconnect with your best friends as friends, and not just as bridesmaids. Take this time to thank them for the work they've done in helping you plan your wedding, give them their bridesmaid gifts, and get advice from your married bridesmaids. You might even want to schedule the wine tasting before the big lunch - with a few inhibitions down, you'll get the best advice, we bet.

If you want to tie your bridesmaid gifts into the wine tasting theme, take note of each bridesmaid's favorite wine, and at the end of the tour, purchase a bottle for each bridesmaid! Make sure they can't see which ones you get - this is key to making it a great surprise when you present each bridesmaid with a bottle in a Personalized Wine Box. You can even help prepare them for a new life as a wine connoisseur with additional bridesmaid gifts of the Wine Accessory Gift Set.

Other commemorative bridesmaid gifts you can take away from a wine tasting include personalized wine glasses in their preference of red or white. Two lines of personalization mean you can get more creative than just each girl's initials - consider adding in a special message, or simply including the date of the wine tasting, or even the date of your wedding. This makes it easy for each bridesmaid to remember your special day every time she has a fine bottle of wine with dinner. She'll take away a cute souvenir and a newfound appreciation for vino!

If you're low on funds but still want to explore this new idea for bridesmaid gifts, you can! Start by picking a small selection of dessert wines for a late night cocktail party. Choose sweet wines like Prosecco, Riesling, Marsanne, or Breidecker, all of which have fruity characters ideal for following up a savory meal. If you want, get the night started with a simple home-cooked meal of pasta or takeout from your favorite Italian place, focusing on light flavors, such as angel hair pasta dressed with olive oil, spinach, and tomatoes. Decorate for the theme with these Allure Glass Grapes Placecard Holders and add in gold-scripted placecards for the sophisticated party look that you want. Then pass out glasses and get tasting!