Our Wedding Wine and Labels: ASPaperie

Dean and Wendy very generously offered to make the wine for our wedding. Extremely generously, considering they wound up making 180 bottles when we were only ever planning on 150 guests. Dean has been making wine for years at The Village Wine Shoppe in Bridgenorth. He made 90 bottles each of their pinot grigio and African pinotage.

Tina Beynen's photo of our wine bottles already opened and being enjoyed at the wedding!

Unfortunately, I had the hardest time picking wedding wine labels. None of the options that The Village Wine Shoppe offered appealed to me, and most of the popular sites online didn't seem to have anything simple enough to suit what I wanted. I just wanted chalkboard! Why is it that the simplest things are often the most expensive?

I finally turned to Etsy to find a seller that would just design and provide what I wanted. Andrea of ASPaperie out of Miami, Florida was amazing to work with during the design phase of the wine labels. Unfortunately once we had received them and I was confused about the lack of an actual chalkboard texture to the labels (it showed on her test proofs but then not at all on the actual labels), I e-mailed her and still haven't received a response. Not a huge deal, considering we did love the labels themselves, but for $2 a piece, I would have expected exactly what the proofs had shown. 

Our exact wine labels in this product ad from ASPaperie.

Wine label proof sent from ASPaperie prior to production.

The wine labels were beautiful quality. We did have some trouble getting them to affix to cold bottles, but once the bottles were a bit warmer they stuck perfectly. The Village Wine Shoppe provided the flat black wraps for the tops that matched so well.