Wedding Wine Labels

For my brother's wedding, my parents decided to make and bottle their own wine through a local shop. I think it makes for a nice, personal touch at a wedding. Well, when they needed their own labels, it fell to me to create them.

I certainly can't take all the credit here. The basic design was actually my brother's idea. He was over one day and did a really basic mockup of what he was looking for in Photoshop, which basically consisted of having the letters A and E superimposed at the corners of the label.

I was also told that the colors of each label needed to match colours of the foil caps for both the shiraz and the chardonnay.

With that in mind, I actually started by taking a photograph of the foil caps, from which to sample my working colours.

I worked with the shiraz first, establishing the background colour and laying down the pattern - called "Imperial Leaf" and available for download from my freebies page. I placed the letters according to my brother's instructions and applied a lighting effect to the entire thing. Lastly, I added in the various other textual elements, with some glow effects.

Once I was happy with the shiraz label, it was pretty easy to turn to do the chardonnay. It was really just a matter of changing my colours and my text and saving it as a different document.

Overall, everybody seems to really like the way these turned out, and they look great on the bottles! Oh, and I didn't create the names for the wines. Those came from my brother's fiancee.