Varieties of wedding glasses decor and tips for choosing

There are no trifles in a wedding celebration. Even the decoration of the glasses of the newlyweds should be treated with special attention. You can entrust this work to a master or create an original decor yourself.

Wine glasses or glasses can be chosen as vessels for alcoholic beverages for a wedding for the bride and groom. It is important that they are on a leg. These are suitable for party drinks like champagne. For this purchase, the easiest way is to contact the bridal salon. There you can find glasses that have a certain shade, or transparent. It is also possible to choose glasses with a specific bowl shape, for example, elongated, round, with a bend at the top.

Sometimes these vessels may have original legs. like a heart, a dolphin and the like. When it comes to making your own glasses for a festive table, it is better to choose a simple shape of the leg in order to sculpt decorations from polymer clay on it or decorate it in another way. The material for the glasses can also vary. This is crystal, and ordinary glass, and even metal.

Certain traditions are associated with glasses of the newlyweds at the wedding. These vessels are broken in front of the place where the banquet is organized. This promises happiness to the newlyweds. Moreover, the harbinger of a calm and joyful life together will be that both one and the other will be broken, or both will remain unharmed. The smaller the pieces, the more they will bring happiness to the house. However, you always want significant attributes to remain in memory of the wedding. In addition, the glasses become a kind of amulets for the husband and wife. Therefore, more than one pair of such dishes should be decorated for a wedding.

The most obvious thing to do on the glasses is the decor in the form of the bride and groom. For decoration, you can use fabric that matches the color of the newlyweds' clothes. Most often these are black and white colors. For the groom, for example, a bow tie, for the bride, a skirt with a veil.

Today, it is in vogue to use materials such as rhinestones and beads to decorate festive dishes. They are attached with a glue gun. You can only decorate the legs with shiny crystals, or you can grab parts of the bowls. Glasses with rhinestones will look very impressive, especially in photographs where you can capture the festive sparkle of such jewelry.

If the choice fell on this design option, it is important to observe the measure in the choice of decor elements. Do not use too many crystals of conflicting shades. It is advisable to choose a narrow range of colors to avoid variegation. You can make a decoration with Swarovski stones:

• place them in a picturesque mess over the entire surface, without touching the edges where people apply their lips;
• create an image in the form of a heart, wedding rings, the first letters in the names of the newlyweds.

One of the easiest ways to add originality to glasses is to decorate them with ribbons. You can tie beautiful bows on the legs of the wine glasses, and so that such a design does not look boring, add pearls to the composition. Decorations on the legs of glasses in the form of artificial or natural flowers look beautiful. Lively ones are good to choose from the same ones that are included in the bridal bouquet.

Decorating with fresh flowers requires effort in a limited time - you will have to create the decor literally a few hours before the wedding. Selected flowers are placed in water in advance so that they are saturated with moisture as much as possible. After that, they are cut almost to the very buds, and the cuts are closed with pieces of wet cotton wool, using a special tape for floristry. Teip tape acts as a fastening element with the glass.

Buds with greenery and small artificial decorations, beads and rhinestones, which are fixed with glue, will look gentle. Artificial flowers will have an important advantage - they will preserve the memory of the holiday for many years. Various materials can be used to create such compositions, for example, foamiran. Like polymer clay, it is baked in the oven, but does not hang with a heavy stone on the thing for which it serves as a decoration. From it you can create an amazing decor with red roses, arrange wine glasses in blue or in any other.

An interesting option for this kind of design is with the help of artificial petals. Petals are taken from fake flowers and glued one at a time. You need to glue it from top to bottom from the bowl of the glass to its leg. Then one gets the impression that the blossoming bud is as if put on a glass. The leg of the vessel must be decorated with ribbons or feathers and other decorations to match the basis of the composition.

The design of such crockery with lace will look sensual and enticing. A strip of openwork fabric can become both the basis of the decor and an additional element. Lace will look good on the glass, not only white, but also cream and even turquoise colors. They can match or contrast with the color of the bride's dress. Lace can be wrapped around the bowl of the glass, and can also be used in compositions with rhinestones or flowers.

To keep the jewelry firmly in place, a lace strip is glued to the surface of the glass bowl. The glass is degreased (for this, the dishes must be thoroughly rinsed, allowed to dry and treated with alcohol). For gluing, a strip of lace is taken, a couple of centimeters exceeding the circumference of the vessel. You can attach it to the glass with a special glue for glass surfaces, which is easy to purchase at a craft store, or with a silicone compound.They retreat from the edge at least a centimeter so that during the use of the glass, the lips do not come into contact with the lace trim.

To glue a strip of fabric, it must be tightly pulled, and the glue is applied so that it does not spread over the lace. If such an openwork is used as an additional decoration element, you can cut out some beautiful fragment from it, for example, in the form of a flower or a butterfly, and stick it on. With this decoration, glasses will acquire a noble appearance, even if the simplest glass was used to create them.

The technique of painting on glass surfaces is well suited for decorating wedding glasses. It can be a simple image with the initials of the bride and groom, or something more complex, for example, beautiful lace designs or a symbolic image of figurines of newlyweds, doves, swans, and so on. Before creating the final image, it's best to do some trial drawings. And if things are not going well with artistic talent, stencils will come to the rescue.

To decorate glasses with painting, you need to use acrylics or paints on glass. When choosing the latter, you should also use the contours that are sold in separate tubes. This will prevent the liquid stained glass paint from spreading. Contours are optional when using acrylics. When the image dries up, it remains to cover it with a layer of special varnish.

The best way to capture your wedding day is to use engraving on your glasses. Such decoration will require the services of a specialist who can manually apply the desired image. The bride and groom are required to think over the meaning of the picture or short and capacious inscriptions that should fit on the glasses.

You can also decorate the containers for drinks with sparkles. Gold or silver can look bright and rich. You can trim both the leg and the bowl of the glass in this way. You can use stencils to create a certain glitter image. Such a pattern is glued from the inside of the glass to an adhesive tape, and from the outside it is repeated with a brush with glue. Until he grabs, it remains to sprinkle sparkles on top. When the glue dries, the extra sparkling grains will fly around, and the necessary ones that make up the pattern will continue to stick.

Sometimes the design of wine glasses requires only rough materials to create a rustic design. For this, a combination of burlap or thin twine with flowers is suitable. Such elements can be fixed on the legs of the vessels, and the proper impression will be created. Those who are passionate about decoupage may well apply their skills to gently glue pieces of napkins to glass surfaces. For work you need:

• brush (or several);
• varnish (transparent);
• glue for decoupage glass.

Experienced decoupage masters do not cut out the drawings, but tear them out of the napkin, since such “torn images” adhere better after gluing. Glue is applied to the surface of the tissue pieces used and also grabs the glass around the image. The hardest part is smoothing the paper neatly. To do this, you need to draw a brush from the middle of the picture to its edges. After it dries and is varnished, its outline can be decorated with ribbons, rhinestones and other additional elements.

A prerequisite for decorating wine glasses for the bride and groom is their compliance with the general style of the holiday. This also applies to the color and texture of the materials used. It's good when the champagne glasses are paired with the bottle that contains the sparkling wine.When decorating a table, they should be decorated in the same spirit.

Glasses of the same shape are becoming the traditional choice. Although this is not necessary at all. The combination of a tall and narrow glass for the groom with a low and rounded one for the bride will look interesting. Handmade decoration will make the glasses unique, adding a zest to the decoration of the whole table.

• Skillful use of a brush can turn glasses into perfection. From the outside, they will look like they are trimmed with real lace. Additional gold trim completes the composition.

• Wine glasses with rhinestones laid out on their bowls in the form of the first letters of the names of the bride and groom look very elegant. A great addition is the use of ribbons in the decoration of the wine glasses themselves and the champagne bottle.

• For the design of the glass, you can use not only shop lace, but also handmade. As a result, a unique thing will remain as a keepsake for the young.

• Painting on glasses opens up a lot of scope for creativity. A pair of vessels "in suits" of the bride and groom is an excellent complement to each other and turns into a bright detail in the decoration of the festive table.

• Festive glasses decorated with flower petals become very beautiful. It looks unusual, airy and gentle.

• Decorated with Swarovski stones, wine glasses look unusually expensive and impressive. At the end of the holiday, they will become a true decoration of the house.

• For festive decoration of glasses, you can use the kanzashi technique. The petals, folded from ribbons, form amazing flowers that look great on glass and do not weigh down the dishes.

• Decorating glasses in a rustic style will emphasize the peculiarities of a rustic wedding and the special flavor of a celebration in nature.

To learn how to decorate wedding glasses using decoupage technique, see the next video.