Redneck Wine Glasses: The No-Brainer Gift Idea!

JIM’S GOOD OL’ REDNECK WINE GLASSES

If you're buying a gift for someone you want to make sure of two things: they haven't got it already and they are going to appreciate it; simple, right? If it also gets folk talkin' and relaxin', all the better.

Now I'm willing to wager a good ol' drop of finest moonshine that there aren't many people who have redneck wine glasses in their cabinet. I'm telling you that if you furnish your man (or best buddy) with one of these beauties you're going to make him happy, have plenty to talk about and, what's more, it'll be harder for him to spill his beverage than to keep it in the glass. And if he likes sports, well … even better!


So what are redneck wine glasses anyway?  

Mason Jar Crafts Are you familiar with the good ol' mason jar? It's those glass jars with screw-top lids and rubber seals. John Landis Mason patented them back in the 1800s and little did he know (bless his beard) what was going to become of them.

Originally used for preserving food, now a whole new industry – mason jar crafts - has sprung up. Now you'll find mason jars used for everything from vases and pencil holders to spice racks and lights.

We happen to think we're pretty good with the ol' mason jar crafts, and our range of mason jar lights are definitely worth a look. But back to them there redneck wine glasses. As you might have guessed by now, they're wine glasses with a mason jar on top - mason jar wine glasses!


Three Reasons You Can't Lose With Redneck Wine Glasses

OK, I'm going to break it down real simple!  

#1 First of all, when your guy or best buddy opens his present he's gonna say, 'Wow, I ain't seen one of these before, let's get some of yer finest wine in one of these here redneck glasses.'  

#2 Of course, if he's an Astros or Rangers fan, and you've customised his glass in the club's colors, you're already his favorite person ever.  

#3 Then as he downs a first draught he'll hear a little rattle; that'll be the bullets we've hidden away in the stem. That's bound to get the guys laughing and joking well into the night.

And then, when the revelry reaches late into the night, and yer all losing control of yer faculties, those practical mason jar lids prevent any messy spillages on your fine bear skin rug.


More About Customization

Although our mason jar wine glasses come in a variety of popular styles (e.g. the black, pink and orange Harley Davidson glasses or the iconic yellow and green John Deere variety), the one fail-safe way to make your mason jar wine glasses unique is to have them customized.

You'll find a space on our website where you can enter your fave baseball, football or whatever-ya-ball team plus any other customization requests. In that way, your gift of redneck wine glasses is guaranteed to be unique.

Congratulations! You're engaged! Now you need Low Budget Fairy Tale Weddings to help you plan your dream come true!

You've dreamed about your fairytale wedding and how to make your special day the biggest and best day of your life. Walking down the aisle in a gorgeous Cinderella wedding dress. All of your friends and family sharing in the excitement. You and your bridesmaids clutching elegant bouquets and your ring bearer with the satiny pillow.

Then you dream about your reception. Elegant wedding favors and place card holders adding to the splendor of the guests’ tables. The band or DJ announcing the wedding party. Your First Dance. Tossing the bouquet. Cutting the cake. All of the festivities of your friends and family gathered around.

But wait...that all costs a fortune, doesn't it?

No! It doesn't have to! If you start to plan early and use our planningsuggestions, you can have your fairytale wedding from start to finish - wedding dress and ceremony through reception - for a fraction of the cost - and make it your day to remember.

I realized from helping my daughter plan her fairytale wedding that an enchanting wedding can be successfully planned on a very small budget. She wore the gown she dreamed of, had four bridesmaids, a flower girl and ring bearer, live band, caterer, the whole nine yards. And still spent under $3,500 in total, start to finish.

Importantly, your guest list size must be manageable so you can stick to your budget and keep it low. It costs money to mail out hundreds of invitations, find a large enough venue and feed all those people.

But even with larger guest lists, you can still save a lot of money by looking for low budget bargains on table centerpieces, decorations, favors, wedding gowns, bouquets and all of the other things that will make up your perfect day. If you spend less in those other areas, you can put the savings toward a larger guest list and a professional invitation printer if you want.

My daughter's wedding had a guest list of nearly 150 people including the wedding party and band. But by planning early, keeping to her schedule and bargain hunting, her little girl fairytale dream wedding came true! And we didn't break the bank doing it.

Stick to a low budget, start early and use a little creativity and you'll have the money for your dream honeymoon or your first house instead of thousands of bills to start off your new life together.

Discover how our ebook, "15 Steps to Low-Budget Weddings" can help you plan a $20,000 wedding for a fraction of the cost! (Or put these money-saving techniques to use in your own wedding planner business to save your clients a ton of cash & headaches!)

Anniversary Wedding Favor Bookmarks

Anniversary wedding favors can add a personalized touch to your celebration, and adding bookmarks to your favor choices or even as your favors, will create a keepsake for both you and your guests for years to come.



Your wedding anniversary is a day to remember you joined your life together with the one you love. You deserve to celebrate your special day every year, and even more so if you're celebrating a significant landmark anniversary, such as your 10th, 25th or 50th anniversary.

10th Anniversary
Your 10th anniversary may be the first big landmark in your marriage and you may want to celebrate it with a dinner party or even a vow renewal ceremony and customized anniversary favors will really add a special touch to your celebration.

For instance, let your let your anniversary wedding favors reflect either traditional or contemporary 10th anniversary gifts by having graphics or photos on your bookmarks depicting diamonds, which are a contemporary 10th anniversary gift. These special bookmark favors will add a special touch to the decor of your party or celebration while providing a creative and useful keepsake that your guests can take home with them.

25th Anniversary
The Silver Anniversary is landmark event and most families all gather together to help you celebrate the the long and faithful years you have been together in marriage. By this time, most marriages have watched their children grow and grandchildren born, so there are plenty of people to share your big day.

For your favors, choose the easy correlation between silver and your anniversary wedding favors by adding silver to the tables and place settings and accent your table with personalized bookmark favors that can be used as place markers, while also offering a small token of your appreciation to each attending guest.

50th Anniversary
For the few couples fortunate enough to be celebrating their 50th anniversary, the surprise festivities are likely to be planned by your children. Whether they're being planned by the children or the celebrating couple, there are a wide array of 50th anniversary favor ideas to make the day truly special.

To personalize your anniversary wedding favors, you may want to gather some memorable photographs from your many years together and place a different image on each bookmark. Or simply use gold accents on the bookmarks, as gold is the traditional mark of a 50th anniversary celebration.

Whatever year you're celebrating for your anniversary, wedding anniversary favors should add to the décor and theme of the anniversary as well as provide small thank you gifts to each guest, honoring their presence in your lives. The best favors to choose are things that can be easily saved, such as personalized bookmarks, and will bring a smile to them whenever they use them.

And because bookmarks are inexpensive to create, they also make an elegant choice of favors for simple and elaborate celebrations alike.

Goth Wedding Theme Ideas

Planning a Goth wedding on a low budget is just as much fun as planning any other themed wedding. So if you are Goth or simply love the Gothic theme, we have some suggestions and ideas for planning the perfect Goth wedding that will have you feeling like a dark princess on your special day.



The Goth bride wedding dress can be a corset style in black or a richly deep scarlet red. In fact, with the right makeup and accessories, you can even wear a stunning corset white wedding dress with a Goth theme.

Think Renaissance, Medieval or Draconian and you're there. There are all kinds of Gothic clothing designers that would be able to help the bride find a stunning Gothic style wedding dress. And if you have enough money in your wedding budget or you have a friend or family member that is a very good seamstress, you can even have a dress custom made for your Goth wedding.

If you're looking for beautifully handcrafted "Vampire" style dresses, which fit so very well into the dark side of the Goth culture, visit Vampire Empire's Gothic Bridal Gowns site for stunning creations in blacks, rich blood reds, royal purples and a classic black and white design.

Your bridesmaids should be outfitted in a similar style to the bride also and there are a number of creative ways to make sure your attendants look stunning by choosing the right styles and colors that will complement the bride's dress and add rich dark colors that coordinate with the theme.


Your wedding invitations can take on a hauntingly romantic theme with black roses or dark blood red roses with black accents on a white card.

Create ceremony programs along the same theme and design with embellishments and graphics depicting black vines with rich red flowers.


Selecting the flowers for this style of wedding can be one of the most fun parts of the bridal planning. Deep dark colored roses, calla lilies, orchids are all great selections. Choose the darkest red roses and contrast them with white calla lillies and black and red tulle accents.

You can choose dark reds and purples for your flower colors and use beautiful ribbons to tie together the flowers and even find ribbon to compliment the dresses of the bridal party.


Goth wedding cakes are actually very stunning. A white fondant cake will allow for the striking contrast of the black and blood red accents whether you choose flowers or other embellishments for the design of the cake.

To keep the richness of the theme running through the cake, choose a red velvet cake or dark chocolate cake. This will give the cake a luxurious and stunning deep red color to contrast with the white fondant icing.

The location for your Gothic wedding should be very special. Whether or not you choose to get married in a church under some denomination is completely up to you. Beach weddings, heading to Las Vegas or a beautiful Gothic location would all be fabulous choices. It is really all up to you. Use your imagination and you are sure to come up with the perfect destination.

After all the festivities are over for your Goth wedding you will want to be planning your honeymoon. You could tour haunted houses, visit Gothic castles or even visit ancient European cities. The possibilities are really quite endless.



You can choose to plan your wedding yourself or work with a wedding planner. Either way this is just the start to all of the wonderful things that will go into planning your Goth wedding. From the invitations to the dress to the honeymoon you will be able to plan a day that you will remember forever.

For more Goth themed wedding ideas visit Gothik Designs-Celtic, Medieval & Fantasy inspired bridal gowns, corsets, tiaras & more.

Goth wedding favors take on a dark yet richly romantic theme and Goth design bookmarks will seamlessly complement even the darkest or most romantic wedding theme you can imagine.

Dark roses are a favorite and whether you're choosing black roses or deep scarlet or blood red roses, our Gothic design bookmarks will accent your guests tables or your ceremony programs perfectly.

And to top it off, your wedding favor bookmarks can be designed with a background of rose petals or even single stem roses or rosebuds.

If you're having a winter Goth wedding, gray roses or a hauntingly snowy forest will create bookmarks your guests will talk about for years to come.

So whether you simply love the darker side and you're planning a full on Goth wedding or you're just adding a touch of the Medieval to your plans, our Goth design bookmarks will make a romantic addition to any of your other favor choices or even as stand-alone favors in themselves.

Creative Ideas for Bookmarks

Here are some creative ideas for bookmarks and how to easily blend them into any theme for weddings, vow renewals, bridal showers and other wedding-related events. Just by using some photos or special themes and colors, your bookmarks can be transformed into something more than just marking a place in a book or hanging as a refrigerator magnet. Your personalized bookmarks will become keepsake momentos that your friends and loved ones will keep safe for years to come because they'll know you put a little of yourself into each one.


Each of these creative ideas for bookmarks will give you some ways to think about how you can use your bookmarks or how to design them to fit whatever event you want to use them for, whether from the beginning announcing your engagement through to celebrating a renewed vows event after a few years of marriage.

Whether you choose to use them as stand-alone favors or complementing another type of favor like mints or candies, these ideas for bookmarks as favors or announcements are sure to help you decide how and where you want your bookmark favors to blend into your theme.

Ideas for using personalized laminated bookmarks for weddings & vow renewals...
We know that personalized bookmarks can be a unique easy way to say thank you to your guests for sharing your special day with you. Some of the ways that you can use your bookmarks as wedding favors are:

• Insert them into your ceremony programs. Your guests can admire them while following the program along with your ceremony
• Use them as reception table accents. You can set one at each table place setting for your guests so they have them as they arrive at the reception.
• Attach the bookmark to another favor such as an organza bag with a candle inside or a small token box of mints to dress up the mints.
• For a vow renewal, add a photo of your wedding portrait to the bookmark to celebrate the years you've been together.

Ideas for using personalized bookmarks for bridal showers...
Show your shower guests how much you appreciate their gifts and sharing in the fun party that your bridesmaids have given you by including a personalized laminated bookmark in with any other favors or even as a stand-alone favor:

• Choose a custom bookmark design with a photo of a wedding dress or veil
• Design the bookmark with an engagement photo
• Clip a bookmark to the favor bag that you give to your guests.
• Attach a bookmark to custom wrapped candy bar

Ideas for using personalized bookmarks as wedding announcements...
Every couple has friends or relatives that due to distance or illness were not able to be present at the wedding ceremony and reception. Let them know they were missed and thought of by sending them a special personalized bookmark announcing your wedding day.

You can include it in with an announcement card or send them a ceremony program with the bookmark favor inside. Your absent friends and relatives will feel honored that although they were not able to be present in person, you still care enough to send them special favors anyway.

Ideas for using personalized bookmarks as wedding announcements...
Wedding annoucements are perfect for couples who have chosen to elope or simply choose to have a romantic destination ceremony without any guests. In this setting, personalized bookmarks are a lovely way to let your friends and loved ones learn of the happy news that you've married.

You can include a custom laminated bookmark with an announcement card or simply send them the bookmark as a stand-alone announcement. Either way, your friends will appreciate that you thought to include them as recipients of a thoughtful little gift.

Ideas for using personalized bookmarks as engagement announcements...
Engagments are where it all starts, well after the proposal anyway, and people love announcing their intent to marry at some date in the future. So here are some ideas for bookmarks to use to announce your engagement.

• As with a wedding announcement, you can add your bookmark to an engagement announcement card or hand out or mail your engagement announcement bookmarks by themselves.
• Put your engagement photo on the bookmarks along with a special saying and your official wedding date
• If you're planning an engagement party so that the respective parents and families of the bride and groom can meet, customized bookmarks are an excellent little favor for each of the guests to take home with them.

These are just some creative ideas for bookmarks that will help start the ball rolling and hopefully spark other ideas along the way into how bookmark favors can be easily mixed with other favors or used alone as favors or even announcements of upcoming events.

Whatever the occasion, your family and friends will love being included in receiving your little gift that says a lot.

A Spin on Traditional Wedding Favors

Chances are, if you've been to any weddings, you've received traditional wedding favors. Some of these favors include shot glasses, chocolates, candles, ornaments, coasters, keychains, picture frames, magnets, etc. These favors are a simple way to thank your guests for sharing your special day with you.

However, after the costs of the wedding, the reception and the honeymoon have been tallied, it can be difficult to find extra funds for traditional wedding favors. Sometimes couples worry that if they don't give expensive wedding favors, their guests will feel cheated; but this simply isn't true. Wedding favors are like the cherry on the top of an ice cream sundae.

If you get one, great, but if not, you still like the sundae. People will still like you and enjoy your wedding even if you don't give them pricey favors at the reception.

Shot glass wedding favors are one of the more popular types of traditional favors. It is common for the happy couple to commemorate the special day with shot glasses that have their name and wedding date etched into the glass.

While shot glass wedding favors are a fun option, they can be rather costly depending on the number of guests. Instead of giving out wedding favor shot glasses, consider giving a bookmark with a photo of a shot glass, the date and the couple's name on the bookmark for more inexpensive wedding favors.

The bookmark wedding favors could also say something like, "Here's to the future". Your guests will love your creativity, and every time they read a book, they will be reminded of how fantastic your wedding was.

If shot glasses aren't your style, the bookmark could have a picture of the newlyweds and the date of the wedding. These inexpensive bookmark wedding favors have endless possibilities, and they can easily be tailored to your individual style and liking.

To make your guests feel really special, consider giving an elegant "favor kit" - a bookmark that corresponds to the season of your wedding with a box that contains one or two chocolates.

Or you could give them personalized fortune cookies that have a special message from the bride and groom, as well as a bookmark.

Instead of more expensive traditional wedding favors, consider asking someone to make homemade cookies, and each guest could receive a cookie and a bookmark that says, "Made with love."

Depending on the overall cost, you could really surprise your guests and give them chocolate, a cookie and a personalized bookmark.




Remember, even though you may not be giving out traditional wedding favors, your guests don't ever have to know that you were trying to save money.

Bookmark wedding favors are a simple way to still be able to give your guests something to commemorate your special day without breaking the bank.

And they are so unique, that no one will realize that you were cutting costs by giving out less expensive wedding favors.

Just remember that whatever you decide, your guests will feel honored that you were thinking of them.

Themed Bookmarks by Season to Coordinate with Your Wedding

We can help you with themed bookmarks to coordindate with your wedding or wedding-themed event no matter what time of year you're planning.

Winter Themed Weddings
Winter wedding themes can be exquisite and magical if you're planning a winter wedding between the months of December and January. You can create a winter wedding wonderland with some imagination and help from Mother Nature herself to make your wedding every bit the fairy tale wedding dream come true.

For this season, choose themed bookmarks with backgrounds of snow and ice covered trees and foliage or decorated chapels. Go for the "ice" effect and design winter themed bookmarks to coordinate with your bridal bouquet. For example, if you're going for a white and silver "ice" theme, you can choose silk white roses or tulips with faux dew drops on them and have some of them painted in silver. You can offset the bouquet with holly and red berries.

And if you're planning your event near the Christmas holiday season with festive Christmas decorations, coordinate your wedding bookmarks to your theme by designing bookmarks with decorative Christmas ornaments.

Spring Themed Weddings
Spring wedding themes are among the most popular for brides since there is something so romantic about the season. For spring themed bookmarks, you can design your bookmarks with beautiful spring flowers such as tulips, lilacs, and orchids, any of which bring with them a simple elegance and beauty that can add to your wedding favor bookmarks.

Summer Themed Weddings
With so many different summer wedding themes to plan around for the season, having their wedding in the summer is something that many brides dream about for years, ergo, the June Bride.

The floral scheme is really one of the biggest parts of your summer wedding decorations. The wonderful thing about summer wedding flowers is that there are many different blooms that are in season. Naturally some of the most common and most popular wedding flowers used in the summertime are roses.

With so many beautiful choices, designing your themed bookmarks based on a summer event gives you a wide range of options in colors and flower selections. Calla lilies are one choice that many brides use in their bridal bouquets, and the flowers can be used to create elegant wedding bookmark favors as well.


Fall Themed Weddings
When brides are planning around fall wedding themes, beginning in September through the end of December, Nature is probably at its best for beautiful colors in golds, greens and shades of bronze for the fall season and winter whites and silvers for the winter season. This is a beautiful time of year to let Nature add her vivid colors to your fall season bookmarks.

If your event is being planned near Halloween and you're incorporating some festive decorations, you can design colorful and fun bookmarks to give your guests with graphics of pumpkins and gourds. Or you can design your bookmark favors with Nature's beautiful fall foliage colors in rich reds, greens and golds.

By using your imagination and a little creativity, personalized themed bookmarks for wedding favors are such an elegant touch to your entire day and your guests will appreciate the thought and care you put into finding the perfectly coordinated favors for your event.