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Not sure if this goes here or YC, but it's food related and YC is a madhouse....

I have four bottles of wine (one sparkling, one white, one red, and a desert half bottle) that I'm giving as a gift for a wedding. How should I gift wrap them?

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Wrap tissue paper around them - place the bottle in the middle of 2 sheets (spread caticorner) gently lift the paper and wind around the bottle (wrap each individually) tie with a ribbon (best resut use curly ribbon, tie into a bow, cut bows and curl ribbon). (This is a bit hard to describe in type) place bottles in gift bag. There are other ideas and pictures if you Google "wrapped wine bottle".

This is a perfectly good place to ask this, btw.

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You might search for wine gift baskets for ideas on how to best wrap them. Assuming that you plan to hand-deliver (note that US Postal service will not transport wine/spirits)? Don't try to get too creative -- the couple may not be opening their own gifts, or may not have time to appreciate your efforts amid the number of gifts they receive.

1) If you have a handled basket the 4 will fit in (or are willing to add to your gift-cost by buying one, fill the basket with shredded paper or crushed tissue paper or "Easter basket grass" and nestle the bottles so they cannot rub on each other. Enclose the basket in clear celophane basket-wrap, leaving the handle clear for grasping. This has the advantage of ensuring that anyone who moves the gift knows that it's fragile and perishable.

2) Get a box large enough to hold the 4, create/buy corrugated dividers. Layer colorful shredded paper/tissue in each slot, and securely place each bottle in a section. You might consider using wrap-ties threaded thru the box back to hold the neck of each bottle. Wrap, adding bows/decorations that prevent someone stacking items on the box. Mark box "fragile, do not shake, this end up".


Take your initial estimate, double that and add 20 percent.
It always takes more time and money than you think it should.
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You can buy wine shipping boxes.

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I've seen them at places like BevMo. I'll bet a UPS store or a FedEx place would have them as well.

The advantage is, if the wrapped gift will spend any time bouncing around in a car or being knocked off a table by a little kid, your bottles are safe.


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Any better than half decent wrap - and a nice tie round the top.
Cheap and easy.
Stand them up - if travelling in the car, with something wedging them.
If one bashes the other, theres a chance that more than one will smash - resulting in no gifts and a car that smells like last night's pub for a few weeks (I know ! !).

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For clarity, these will not be shipped. I will deliver them at the wedding.

I have plenty of empty cases, with dividers, thanks to larger than expected purchases in Canada and local wine stores. I also have a number of the plastic bubble bags that Amazon uses to ship things.
So I'm thinking:
I'll wrap the bottles in colored tissue, put them in the case, then take some of the bubble bags and put them in the empty slots to stabilize the bottles. Then close the box and wrap it.

How does that sound?

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I guess it would depend on how good / expensive the wine was, in the past I have just sent a case straight from the wine shop or handed it to whomever in the wooden box it came in, sometimes single bottles come in wicker baskets stuffed with straw which they can always re use for a bread basket of sock tidy Lol.

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I would also wrap the box bz.

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I'd wrap the dessert and sparkling separately; the other two together in a package designed for two wines.

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I'd wrap the dessert and sparkling separately; the other two together in a package designed for two wines.

Why? With three separate packages, bzookaj will have to figure out some way to tie them together, so the recipients know they all came from him and don't spend an hour frantically looking for the card that must have gotten detached from that bottle of muscat.


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